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David McMullen wrote, > > The attempt by John Bellamy Foster of Monthly Review to show that Marx > was a greeny requires some rather weird interpretations of Marx's writings. > Not just Marx was concerned with the environment, but many socialist workers in the Germany of his time. But Marx wasn't a bourgeois environmentalist. His writing brought out the need for economic regulation and planning by the working people as a whole, while today's establishment environmentalists look towards market measures, or dream that restricting growth will solve matters without planning. Foster is right to point to the importance of Marxism for the environment. But Foster's faults include drowning concrete problems in philosophical generalities, prettifying state-capitalism, and evading the distinction between different class types of economic planning. "Monthly Review" is to Marxism what "green free-marketers" are to environmentalism. I wrote an article in 2007 which deals with Marx's standpoint, Foster's standpoint, and the needs of the present environmental struggle. "A review of John Bellamy Foster's 'Marx's Ecology': Marx and Engels on protecting the environment" (http://www.communistvoice.org/40cMarx.html) The table of contents is * The writings of Marx and Engels * Alongside and after Marx and Engels * Lenin and the early Soviet Union * Stalinist and state capitalist ecocide * Marxism and global warming * --Not market methods, but direct regulation of production * --Class basis of environmental destruction * --The nature of state regulation * --Bringing the masses into the environmental struggle * Foster's Marxism without teeth -- Joseph Green --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
