Paul Ehrlich

[Louis Proyect]

At 02:49 PM 5/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Yeah, so Erlich says he's arguing in favor of 'green' policies. 
>The Chevron corporation calls its'environmentally aware" and its
>ads include all kinds of "green" implications.
>
>If ERrlich can call himself a green, then i'm the queen of england. 
>
>HRH
>Frances Bolton 

This is silly. Ehrlich is a right-wing green. So are the leaders of George
Bush's favorite group, the Environmental Defense Fund. And the Audobon
Society. And Al Gore. The green movement is a multiclass movement, just
like the woman's movement or the black movement. Political fights are going
on all the time between the left-wing and the right-wing.

The whole purpose of ecosocialism is to win hegemony for left wing politics
in the green movement. Our difficulty, however, is that large sections of
the Marxist movement cast aspersions on all manifestations of
environmentalism, from Earth First! to the EDF.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)