Deep ecologists and Marxists share one fundamental premise. We might build
on that.
Both of us begin by rejecting compartmentalized, mechanistic science.
I posted earlier about the shortcomings of Marxists with their faith in the
industrial teleology of capitalism, socialism, communism. We can go back
and say, okay, we didn't take this into account. That's our weakness. Our
strength, especially of those who might be called Leninists, is a theory of
political struggle. We have a pretty good idea of how to take power.
I find myself accepting much of what the deep ecologists are saying in
describing the problem. I'm afraid I don't have the predisposition to be
down with the Gaia-spirit stuff, so we may not be able to share tender
moments reflecting on our spirituality. So what!
Where's the common ground? I think there's plenty.
I would refer the non-marxist deep ecologists to Marx's criticism of
mechanistic science. The Philosophy of Right, or Lenin's critique of the
metaphysics of positivism. You might think it was written by one of your own.
Stan
"If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
-Vo Nguyen Giap
"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
-Eleanor Burke Leacock
"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
motivation."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
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