There Are Greens, and There Are Greens (was Were the Nazis radical environmentalists?)

[Frances Bolton (PHI)]

Yoshie, 
In your recent post you mentioned David Harvey.  You pointed to his
involvement in the environmental justice movement as evidence that he is a
"green," rather than "brown" marxist.

I'm not sure that the evironmental justice movemtn qualifies as "green."
It is social and economic justice oriented, feminist, headed by people of
color for the most part.  All good things, and I respect the battles that
have been fought under the rubric of environmental justice. 

I think if a group is to carry the label "green" they have to have a
stronger ecological element. Env. justice folks really don't have that
ecological commitment. I believe they have, in fact, criticized the
wilderness/greenie people for being insufficiently interested in
urban/peopled environments.  They have also analyzed the elitist, classist
roots of the wilderness preservation people.

So, I'd say, maybe Harvey is green,  but I don't think this involvement
with/ commitment to the environmental justice movement provides the
grounds for making that claim.

Yours, 
Frances Bolton