Ecology: Can We Survive Under Capitalism?

Pollution and environmental deterioration are often ascribed to the negative effects of science and technology, and remedies are seen only in that area. Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA 1959-2000, ascribes these new dangers of extinction basically to the unplanned, anarchic System of capitalism and to the profit motive of monopoly. He gives the discussion a class dimension, showing that workers suffer the most, both at the place of work and at home, While urging immediate remedies, he holds that socialism provides the solution, as shown in the countries which have made the turn to the new social system.