>I have to say and declare that attempts to forge a red/green synthesis
>have everywhere failed: from CNS to the new German government, to Earth
>First! to Louis Proyect and my own humble efforts. I am curious why,
>since I still see no alternative to effect the salvation of humankind
>and life on earth generally.
Mark, have they failed any worse than left projects of this anti-left time? The red-green cross is still a pretty young hybrid, and even modern green thought is only a few decades old. As storms get more intense and the climate gets more bizarre, thinking will evolve.
One problem, though, is that socialism could once plausibly promise "more" to impoverished workers; the argument was that it could do production better than the capitalists. The green fantasy is of a different kind of abundance, a qualitatively different kind of production and consumption, which goes against the grain of a commodity fetishized culture. Greens have a problem in selling what lots of people hear as "less."
Doug