Carrol Cox wrote:
In other words, our time and energy needs to be spent in turning greens
red, not in the hopeless task of bringing more people into the general
movement through green agitation. The knowledge we had by 1980 of the
ongoing damage to our living space by capitalist progress was sufficient
to produce a sizeable green movement, and the added knowledge of the
last 25 years has been of no added political impact. Or perhaps it even
has had a negative impact, by adding weight to the lesser evil
strategies that keep so many leftists tied to the tail of the DP.
This is not really true. Awareness of the ecological crisis has not only
led to the growth of the Green Party, it has been largely responsible
for the protests in places like Seattle, etc. For Marxists, the problem
is how to maintain our credibility among such folks when the USSR
appeared to be violating ecological principles in the name of socialism.
We also have to sort out our theoretical differences with Frankfurt
School type Marxists who conceptualize the problem in terms of
Heidegger's writings on industrialization, etc. Not to speak of those
Marxists who championed nuclear power, etc. such as Furedi's sect-cult
before it morphed into libertarianism.
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