Abuse of power

[Enzo Michelangeli]

>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

And, I would add, especially in selling that to people who have read Marx,
his rebuttal of Malthusianism, and his acknowledgement to the bourgeoisie
of having "rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of
rural life". To be perfectly honest, I see environmentalism as a deeply
reactionary movement, more akin to the feelings of Pat Buchanan's
pitchfork-wielding townfolks than to the ones of industrial workers (not to
mention thirld-world ones). Indeed, the very existence of attempts to build
common ground between "red" and "green" never ceases to amaze me.

Enzo