i think the flint water crisis, and in general environmental injustice, is what one should expect in a squishy, totalitarian situation. what we have in the usa is a mating of economic and political power which is in effect at every level: one would be forgiven for thinking that everything from zoning laws to education to incarcertation to housing projects to toxic waste dumping is administered on explicitly oligarchical terms. this has been the case for a very long time: watch robert moses bulldoze your neighborhood, etc. but anyway, i guess i'd like to see a leftist wave kind of try to break state and corporate interests into two. at a minimum, i'd like to see leftists stop voting straight-up for the oligarchy every time out. on the other hand, i think that political and economic power - and whatever other sorts of power there are (e.g. 'knowledge') - tend to coincide in all societies. (i call this the principle of hierarchical coincidence, or little crispy's big law.) ultimately i do not believe that beefing up the state sector extremely (which is what we practically mean by 'socialism') is likely to have the intended effect, and that we're going to need to dismantle all hierarchies simultaneously. but still, go for it.