There Is Something Better Than Energy Nationalisation

We are not in favour of Nationalising energy.

At least, not in the conventional, centralised sense.

Evidence from Germany shows that, to transition to renewable energy as quickly as possible, we should be calling for A *National Feed-In Tarrif Program*

Roughly half of Germany’s renewable energy facilities are in the hands of farmers, citizen groups, and almost 900 energy cooperatives.

(You know the drill with my hands you’ll have to look it up yourself to find out more. There have been similar programs in Denmark and Canada)

This is a policy that operates against but within capitalism so it’s not our absolute ideal.

But it seems important to discuss the range of options and demonstrate that we are not purists. We have preferences and particular concerns around those left visions that differ but we believe almost every left vision is closer to one another morally in its construction, operation and consequence than any one of them are to Neoliberal capitalism.

We reject the harm reduction rhetoric of reformist counter revolutionaries but not because we are all or nothing. We reject this sentiment from them because they are stopping so short of the harm mitigation that is possible, their demand is that we reduce harm only within the bounds of neoliberalism, that harm to the free market is sacred and harming that would be worse than letting the harm inflicted by neoliberalism persist.

However, in the context of revolutionary change and left unity, we will work with those advancing what amounts to harm reduction because it is not bound by artificial limits, like the priority of profit, that are morally unjustifiable.