But what will be different is that the workings of this system--the imperatives of capitalist competition and profit accumulation--and the enforcers of that will not stand in the way of solving these problems. The new state will actually provide backing to science and the scientists, those with expertise and those wanting to learn, and those trying to solve these problems. The new state will likely facilitate an unprecedented planetwide cooperation of scientists and other experts, including sharing scientific and technological advances with the rest of the world.
All this would require and involve mobilizing and involving broad, diverse segments of people. This would be shaped by the overall orientation of fostering the questioning, collectivity, and increasingly active involvement of the masses of people in the exercise of political power. No doubt there will be struggle and ferment among the people themselves doing this as to how--and this may even run ahead of or sometimes counter to what the leadership of the revolutionary state might think best at any given point. And this would contribute to breaking down, step by step, the division between those trained to work with ideas and those who've been kept out of this sphere.
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The capitalist-imperialist system is completely unnecessary--it is way past time for it to be swept off the face of this planet, and be replaced by a radically new, much better, system.
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1. Kerry Emanuel: This year's hurricanes are a taste of the future. Watch Video, MIT News Office, September 21, 2017; Oliver Milman, "Climate change means Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more rain," Guardian, September 13, 2018; see also Michael Mann, "Hurricane Florence is a climate change triple threat," Guardian, September 14, 2018[back]
2.The New York Times Magazine recently devoted a full issue, titled "30 years ago we could have saved the planet," to this history.[back]
3.Revcom.us special issue on environment; "Some Key Principles of Socialist Sustainable Development," April 18, 2010 [back]
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