Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:59:09 -0500 (EST)
From: ROSSERJB-AT-VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
Subject: Green Marxism and Leninism


     Well, having just gotten some use out of my asbestos
suit, here I go again with another thread.
     Following up on the various discussions of Lenin's
_Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ I would note that one
of his bugaboos in there is Aleksandr Bogdanov.  Let me
suggest that Bogdanov provides a possible starting point for
a "Green Marxist" position.  The particularly interesting 
work (post-MAEC) is _Tektology: The Universal Science of 
Organization_, 1925-28, Moscow.  This led directly to the 
development of the "noosphere" concept by Vladimir Vernadsky,
"The Biosphere and the Noosphere," _American Science_, 1945,
vol. 33, pp. 1-12.  A godd discussion of all this can be found
in Kenneth M. Stokes, _Man and the Biosphere_, 1992, M.E. Sharpe.
Barkley Rosser, sorry, just a "snooty" professor 


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