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Several readers reacted strongly to my side comment, ""I leave out the anti-civilizationist, post-left, technophobic, and nihilistic 'anarchists.' I have nothing to say to them because they have no interest in developing a strategy for overturning capitalism and the state."

But NOT ONE responded by writing, "We do too have an interest in developing a strategy to overturn capitalism and the state! Just not your no-good strategy!" Instead they wrote, Damn right we have no strategy; that would be "so bland, predictable, innocuous and uninspiring." But, as I wrote, I am not interested in being entertaining for this bored bunch, but in working to overthrow capitalism and the state.

As one "anonymous" states, " all the other anarchists... don't have a strategy for overturning capitalism and the state either." Right. That is why some of us are interested in developing such a strategy. You see, we care whether capitalist industrialism continues (destroying the planet) or is overthrown, and we think about how to do that.

One anonymous wants to know "how do you plan on implementing this system when the vast majority are either not interested in your plan, or outright hostile to it?" Yes, that's the question. How can we win over the big majority of the country and the world? Should we regard this as impossible, as the writer seems to? Or do we remember that there have been revolutions before and that history is not over? And think about how to end capitalism and the state?

The same anonymous writer denies that it might be possible to produce "the goods and services of billions of people without the massive ecological degradation through resource extraction." Meaning that it isn't possible so why bother? The vast ecosocialist literature on alternate technology (from Kropotkin to E.F. Schmacher) does not exist for these people.