[Marxism] A modest proposal [was: RE: The Earth as a whole]

[Joaquin Bustelo]

Louis writes: "There *are* too many people. Socialism is not a branch of
alchemy. It will not magically discover ways to fill the oceans to the
rafters with bluefin tuna." 

Well, there are people and then there are people, or rather, I should say,
there are human beings and then there are Europeans.

The world could EASILY stand another 500 million or even a billion people
with the ecological footprint of Evo's base, indigenous Bolivian peasants.

What it CANNOT survive is the ecological footprint of the much less than one
billion denizens of the white countries.

Pretending they are all undifferentiated "people" when the bulimic
consumption of the latter is based on merciless deprivation of the former is
nothing short of obscene.

Next to a world socialist revolution, which doesn't seem to be around the
corner, the greatest contribution one could make to the world's ecological
health would be a plague that would kill off, say, three-fourths of the
population of the U.S., Europe and Japan, and not affect anyone else. Except
for the fallout, world thermonuclear war between the major nuclear powers
and their closest allies would seem ideal. 

Every dead American, for example, makes a contribution 100 times that of a
Peruvian peasant in reducing carbon emissions. Including the Japanese in
there makes sure we save not only the Tuna, but the whales.

And if you REALLY wanted to have a thorough house-cleaning, maybe for good
measure the top 10% pitiyanqui layer of third world countries should be
affected. That will certainly take care of the remaining hummers and SUV's
as well as most airline travel and blue-ray disk sales.

Joaquín