Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.