Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:12:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Dean Stinson-O'Gorman" <deanso-AT-cs.uregina.ca> Subject: Re: M-I: Vandana Shiva Doug: Like Vandana, my training is as a physicist (although she was nuclear, while I did stat mech). The analysis she does of "really existing science" is something we see far too little of among practicing scientists. We should be thankful for her - most nuclear physicists are pretty rabidly right wing. Equating her with Hindu fascists is out of bounds. I did read your long article in the LBO about globalization and anti-globalization. Since it wasn't posted to this list, here is not the place to provide a detailed critique. (Besides, I'm sure I wouldn't actually convince you to change your mind so why bother? :-)) My short response is this: I disagree strongly with your view that perspectives such as anti-globalization or ecofeminism or deep ecology are reactionary. My vision of marxism is that of a (hopefully) constantly evolving method of analysis which is capable of adapting to certain new realities which weren't obvious a century ago: the material gains brought about by capitalism really do pose a threat to life on Earth (as we know it); and as human beings it's become apparent that we need to get past this collective mentality that the earth is ours for the taking, and nature only has 'value' inasmuch as it serves human purposes. Old style industrial marxism just isn't going to cut it anymore - it doesn't address the really existing current conditions. Marxism and 'ecology' need each other. Dean ********************************************************* Dean Stinson O'Gorman Room 230.4, College West Bldg. Energy Research Unit University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2 phone: (306) 585-4269; fax: 585-5205 deanso-AT-cs.uregina.ca The world's 358 billionaires have more assets than the combined incomes of countries housing 45 percent of the world's people. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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