다른소리가 받앗던 반공교육에서는....공산주의는 이론은 좋은데 실천이 나쁘다.....고 하엿습니다.
울 선생님들이 공산주의 이론이나 알고 그런 말을 씨불렷다는 생각은 도무지 들지 않고
그렇게 가르치라고 햇쓰니 ..그리 씨불렷겟지요..
지금와서 생각해 보면....그런 가르침 자체가 틀렷다고는 생각하지 않습니다..
자유 민주주의는 이론은 좋은데 실천이 나쁘다.......식으로 얼마든지 다른곳에도 적용해 볼 수 잇기 때문이지요.
자유 민주주의가 무엇인지도 모르고 나발 거리는 것도 꼭 같습니다.
다른소린
자유 민주주의체체가 무엇인지 알고도 싶지 않습니다.
다른소리가 관심잇는 것은 단지....그것이 현실에서 어떻게 구현되고 잇느냐??.....뿐입니다..
설사 이론이 나쁘더라도...현실에서 잘 구현이 된다면 그것은 좋은 것이다는 생각이고
더 이상의 절차나 과정 따위엔 관심 갖지 않게 되엇습니다..
결과가 무엇이냐가 중요하고.....기대 햇던 결과를 내 놓지 못 한다면 이론의 아름다움도 사라지는 것이지요..
미국을 비롯한 서국 자유 민주주의체체 국가들에 중국이 거슬리고 당황스러운 것은
중국은 이미 그들보다 더 좋은 결과를 보이고 잇기 때문일 것입니다.
중국의 체제는 반드시 찌그러지는 체제 라고 ....참 열씸히 소리치고 쇄뇌 시켯놧는데
찌그러지는 체제는 중국이 아닌 자신들의 체제이고...
사람들은 이런 현실에서 근본적인 질문을 갖기 시작 햇기 때문입니다..
-지금까지의 니들의 주의 주장이 맞는 것이냐??
-그 주장이 맞다면 중국의 현재를 어떻게 설명을 할 수 잇느냐???
이런 질문은..자본주의는 반드시 붕괴한다는 공산주의 진영의 주의 주장과도 같습니다..
조금만 더 들어가 보면....
자본주의 vs 공산주의 방식의 과거의 2분법적 접근이 온당한 것이냐??....는 질문을 하지 않을 수 없습니다.
다른소린 모르겟습니다.
하지만 분명하게 말 할 수 잇는 것은....
중국은 다른 방식도 가능 하다는 것을 현실에서 보여주고 잇다는 것이지요..
그것이 현실이라면...문제 해결을 찾고 잇는 사람들에게 다른 통찰력을 줄 수는 잇다는 것이지요.
데이비드 하비
이분은 자타가 공인 하는 좌파 학자 입니다....
그렇다고 하여 중국의 모델에 대해 우호적인 학자는 아니엇습니다..
또 하나의 화석연료 산업 혁명의 국가라며..중앙중심적인 후발 계획 경제 국가 정도로 폄하 햇습니다.
그런데 어느 순간에 자신의 시각을 변경.....중국의 장기 계획에 대한 인식 부족을 인정 하엿고
중국이 이룬 성취와 방향이 자본주의 국가들과는 다름을 이야기 햇습니다.
즉...자신들이 생각햇던 유럽식 사회주의 모델이라고는 말 할 수 없지만,
기존의 자본주의 체체와는 다른 인정할 만한 중국식 사회주의 모델임을 말 한 것이지요..
중국에 대해 이런식의 전향이 쉬운것은,
중국은 말이 아닌 현실로써 자신들의 주장을 구현해 보이고 잇기 때문입니다.
기후나 생태 환경에서도 중국은 서구와는 다른 효과와 효율를 보이고 잇습니다.
당연히 ....더 지켜 봐야 할 것이지만
지금까지 중국이 이루어 낸 것 만으로도 그간의 노력을 칭찬할 만 하고 미래의 더 큰 성취를 추측해 볼 수 잇다는 것이지요..
미국이나 서방 국가들이 말만 요란한 이유는 자유 민주주의라는 체제 때문입니다.
자유 민주주의 체체에서는 선전 선동이 없이는 권력 재 창출이 불 가능 합니다.
그러니 좋은 것은 최대한으로 부풀리고 나쁜것은 최대한으로 감춥니다...
(이런것은 공산주의 방식이 아닌 자유 민주주의 방식입니다)
그리고,
자유 민주주의체제의 권력은 돈이 좌우 하고...이익 집단이 곧 돈을 대는 집단 입니다..
이 이익집단은 시장에 뿌리를 두고 시장에서 돈을 빨아 들여 정치권력을 만들어 냅니다.
그렇게 만들어진 정치 권력이 이익집단의 이익에 반하는 정책을 펼칠 수 없는 구조입니다.
자유 민주주의 체제가 무엇인지를 가장 극명하게 보여준 사진
다른소린, 시장이 기후 환경 문제를 풀어 낼 수 잇는 메카니즘이라곤....차마 눈꼽만큼도 생각하지 않습니다.
그 이유는 ...시장을 살짝만 들여다 보아도 ..개 도 소도 쥐쇗끼도 다 알 수 잇을 만큼 훤히 보이기 때문입니다.
시장 자체가 기후 환경 생태계를 파괴하는 원인인데...이를 통해 무엇을 바꿀 수 잇다는 것인지 상상을 할 수 없기 때문입니다
중국의 방식이 옳습니다...
여기서 옳다는 의미는 ...더 효율적이고 효과적이다는 뜻입니다.
China Combats Climate Change. The U.S., Not So Much
Georgia-Pacific Mill, Toledo, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.
The two leading U.S. presidential candidates offer a dismal future for the earth ecosystem. That’s because it’s time for a real climate president, not a phony one, like Joe “More Oil Leases” Biden or a climate wrecker like Donald “Let the World Burn” Trump. The earth is warming, and we all know how to apply the brakes: stop burning oil, gas and coal. But both Biden and Trump refuse such a so-called radical step, thus condemning our species to a hotter, less human-friendly planet, at best.
It’s not as if we don’t know the alternatives: wind, solar and hydropower. Beijing sure knows. In fact, China’s solar companies lead not only the world, but also those supposedly nonpareil exemplars of American capitalism, the Seven Sisters oil conglomerates – BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon and the rest. According to a Bloomberg headline June 13, “Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil.” Who are those solar power giants? Seven Chinese companies.
(중국의 7개 태양열 에네지 회사는 서구 자본주의 국가의 7개 거대 화석연료 회사 보다 더 많은 에네지를 공급하고 잇다)
Put this in the context of Beijing charging ahead of everyone in green tech, and how does Biden help? By slapping tariffs on the technology that curbs climate change and thus opens a path out of our overheated morass. That tells you all you need to know about the Biden gang’s priorities: political grandstanding trumps preserving a livable world for humankind – by a lot.
Meanwhile, global warming threatens that livable world, first and foremost by gifting us drought. In Mexico City, population 23 million, as water in reservoirs evaporates, taps could run dry in the near future, like this summer. And that megalopolis ain’t alone. Robert Hunziker reports in CounterPunch June 14: “Bogota (8M pop.) recently started water rationing. Residents of Johannesburg (6M pop.) line up for municipal truck deliveries. South Delhi (2.7M pop.) announced a rationing plan on May 29. Several cities of Southern Europe have rationing plans on the table. In March 2024, China announced its first-ever National Level Regulations on Water Conservation, a disguised version of water rationing. Global warming is the key problem, as severe droughts clobber reservoirs.” If you think we here in the Exceptional Empire are exempt from this ominously thirsty future, think again.
“More than 550 neighborhoods,” posted Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam June 15, have been forced by record-breaking heat and years of worsening drought “to turn off their tap water in Mexico City. Officials are predicting ‘Day Zero,’ the moment the reservoirs will stop pumping and 6 million people will lose their water supply.” Simultaneously in the U.S., parts of the Gulf Coast and the mid-Atlantic coast experience exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Sections of New Mexico and Texas are under extreme drought, while large swaths of North America suffer severe and moderate drought or are “merely” abnormally dry. Nobody in their right mind is bothered by how water rationing could affect a yellowing lawn, but when your flowers wither and you face the prospect of limited bathing, alarm sets in.
For those who doubt that earth, our only home, is warming, nota bene: June 13 was the hottest day in our planet’s recorded history, and this calefaction comes in a context of regular, predictable temperature rises over the past decade. The average global surface temperature of 62.3 degrees Fahrenheit beat the previous day’s old record. “Record smashing heatwaves are ongoing,” tweeted Colin McCarthy of U.S. Stormwatch, “in India, China, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, just to name a few places.” Then on June 18, McCarthy reported that temps that day in Mecca were the hottest in that locale’s recorded history, namely 125.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Heat there killed roughly 1300 pilgrims, as of June 20. I might add that starting June 17, the American Midwest and Northeast got slammed with abnormally high temps enduring for an unfortunate stretch of days on end.
People started recording global heat in 1850. Last year was the hottest on record by a lot, while overall the warmest years ever observed are 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. If you’re a climate denier and don’t detect a pattern, you win the ostrich head-in-the-sand award of the year, because these are some truly lousy stats. They mean that the most sizzling years in the 174-year record all happened between 2014 and 2023 and pretty much seriatim – almost as if our planet’s fever keeps rising regularly. This, people, is something we want to stop. That means attacking the pathogen causing the illness, namely burning fossil fuels.
But don’t think high temperatures are the only curse of capitalism run amok. According to the Washington Post June 10, every time you breathe, you could inhale microplastics. The worst are tiny fibers from nylon or polyester clothing. But these plastic slivers in human lungs, livers, other organs, blood, placentas, breast milk and testicles come from loads of other sources, too.
What they’re really good at is “stressing the body’s immune system.” So it’s past time to take cloth bags to the grocery store and to skip the plastic ones they offer you. You may just be helping your circulatory system – one spot of microplastics’ worst impacts. “People with microplastics in the lining of their arteries [are] more likely to suffer heart attack, stroke or death from any cause…microplastics can cause tissue damage, allergic reactions and even cell death.” Phthalates or bisphenol A, two chemicals in plastics “cause hormonal imbalances and disrupt the reproductive system.” Fun times – unless somebody somewhere in power starts banning whole categories of this toxin. Some plastics are indispensable, like those for medical equipment. But most aren’t. We could save our lives by ditching them, fast.
Scientists expect to find microplastics in every part of the human body, the New York Times reported June 7. The problem is controlling exposure. Microplastics are shed by “the materials used in car tires, food manufacturing, paint,” and lots else. The Times quotes a University of California San Francisco professor advising to eat less highly processed foods. “One study of 16 protein types found that while each contained microplastics, highly processed products like chicken nuggets” – consumed by millions of children in their school lunches – “contained the most per gram of meat,” likely because “highly processed foods have more contact with plastic food-production equipment.” (Maybe switch to metal.) The Times also suggests using wooden cutting boards rather than plastic ones and replacing plastic food containers with glass ones. Oh, and surprise, surprise, more plastic infects bottled water than tap water. In fact, microplastics are everywhere, drifting around the top of Mr. Everest and embedded in the North Pole’s ice sheets (which are melting).
Drought, water shortages in major cities, once-in-a-millennium floods every other year, heat waves of an intensity never experienced before, ubiquitous, killer plastic – it all adds up to an ugly picture of decayed, financialized capitalism out of control. The only solution lies with that right-wing bogeyman, government, because corporations clearly are not about to self-regulate. If we had a functioning government, one not bought by plutocrats, and a workable regulatory framework, we could smile optimistically at our future. But we don’t, so we need to get them, tout de suite.
In a very much related matter, if uber-polluter U.S. is to compete in the world economically, it needs to de-financialize and reindustrialize – but not on the dirty 19th-century model; instead in an intelligent, green way. This is unlikely, I know, in the land of the fast buck. But there’s lots of frenzied chatter in bigwig political circles and the nearly useless mainstream media about keeping pace with China. Fine. The sane reaction is not to provoke a nuclear holocaust over Taiwan, it’s to reindustrialize. We may not be able to bring back those good jobs our corporate masters so gleefully exported around the globe for cheaper labor, but why not just cultivate them here, with financial and governmental incentives? Nurture new manufacturing, yes. But don’t kill us all with heat waves or poison us with microplastics in the process, please.