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Thanks to Sigrid. Much appreciated. May i add the following?
1. /*It's not us against them; it is us against IT!*/ The struggle for
the end of capitalism with the concomitant struggle for science to
be for people is just that: a struggles against a form of social and
economic organization and for popular recognition of the evil it
engenders. It may be convenient to focus one's attacks on the
persons who are instruments of this system; but that will not lead
to its destruction and will likely lead to attitudes of hate and
repression among those who will build the new society and lessen the
likelihood they will build a positive alternative. Likewise the
goods and services produced under the system are not
one-dimensional. A useful medication may be produced under
"cost-cutting" circumstances that introduce dangerous contaminants.
A labor saving device or technique may be incorporated into the
arsenal of the military used to maintain dominance of US imperialism.
2. /*We are all part of the capitalist machine. */Today's capitalism is
hegemonic in the broadest sense of the word in that it makes it
impossible for those who live under it to survive without
participating in it. It was a teenager who pointed out to me years
ago when i was a factory worker that when i punched in at the
factory i was part of the grand machine of capitalism. It behooves
those of us who struggle for a society, in which the primary
motivation is love for our species rather than the profit motive, to
look at our own relation to the dominant system, not to feel guilt
but to understand that the enemy is it. For it is only when that
consciousness is widespread and we all refuse to punch in that we
humans can break the chains of the capitalist system and find forms
of organization based on the preservation of our species and the
planet which we occupy
3. */Humans are not one-dimensional./* Our species has the capacity to
love and to hate, to destroy and create, to be self centered as
individuals or to be species centered in our collectivity. The
manner in which those of us struggle for an end to the increasingly
dysfunctional capitalist system will have considerable influence on
the kind of post capitalist society that will be built by the
generation that succeeds in that struggle. Let us not imagine our
struggle to be just for the defeat of capitalism; it must also be
for the consciousness that will build a more human oriented society.
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