Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:30:11 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: "Allegations" (was M-I: Earth Day)


Jim Blaut:
>It was not a Rockefeller plot. It was a Nixon- Vietnam warriors plot with
>Lawrence Rockefeller's acquiescence, as far as I recall.
>

Ah, for christ's sake. A liberal antiwar senator from  Wisconsin named
Gaylord Nelson was sitting on an airplane in the fall of 1969 reading a
copy of Ramparts that somebody had passed on to him. The mag, which was
published by Doug Henwood's ultraleft ex-Maoist pal Bob Fitch, was filled
with radical ecology stuff. Nelson had been preoccupied with ecology for a
couple of years and the mag struck a chord. He then decided to call for an
Earth Day. The momentum for the event was huge, but Richard Nixon refused
to endorse it.  This is detailed in the history of Earth Day called "Not in
Our Own Backyard."

>Are there folks on and near this list who think that Lawrence Rockefeller
>is a hero, not the villain that he is? Marxists?

Rockefeller? If I had my way I'd bury him up to his neck and run a power
lawnmower over his head. But he didn't have nothin' to do with callin' for
an Earth Day let alone synchronizing it with the invasion of Cambodia. That
I believe was timed to coincide with a big Yankees double-header.

>
>Is the officially snctioned Earth Day such a sacred cow that folks who
>raise questions about are pilloried and called LaRouchies and polluters and
>sewage and -- worsdt of all -- Sparts? At times I'm tempted to leave this
>list of neurotics and reside only amopng sane revolutionaries -- and sane
>ecologists.
>

Ah, don't be so damned thin-skinned. I hardly laid a finger on you. Besides
you know that I think your book on the colonizer's model is the cat's
pajamas. If you find a Marxist list with no neurotics, let me know. I'm
getting tired of this bunch of nuts myself.

Louis P.



     --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---