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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