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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 11:27:05 CST
From: Rebecca Hill <hillx018-AT-maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: greens/socialism


 - Under the subject heading "real philosophy" - N. Boddhisatva has written 
that the "greens" display a false consciousness, as they argue a politics 
of only human-to-earth relations and do not deal sufficiently with 
inter-human relations as Marxists do, and further, that the "green" 
political philosophy will ultimately result in state-planned economies due 
to the need to regulate workers. I'm sure that Murray Bookchin and other 
eco-Anarchists would beg to differ, as would Winona LaDuke, Vandina Shiva 
and other 1st nations environmental activists. That is, many radical 
greens are fundamentally anti-statist and have considered the alternatives 
to modern industrial modes of production to a greater degree than most 
Marxists, who have been too accepting of both the state and industry as 
reform-able institutions. This reliance on the state and industry is 
probably a major reason for the failure of Marxism to be a liberatory 
project.
      Finally, the search for sustainable agriculture is about 
improving human relations and the movement against environmental racism 
as an aspect of colonialism is about human relations.  

Rebecca Hill
hillx018-AT-maroon.tc.umn.edu
U. Of Minnesota/LnR fed

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