Generally I don’t have much to say about Spiked online nowadays since
the ex-members of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great Britain
have pretty much severed all their connections to the left. Although
they are somewhat coy about their ideology, the impartial observer can
recognize it immediately as libertarianism without the bellicose foreign
policy associated with today’s Ayn Rand supporters.
There are a few exceptions, however-most notably James Heartfield who
wrote an interesting review of Rick Kuhn’s Isaac Deutscher Prize-winning
biography of Henryk Grossman, a Marxist economist who had a significant
influence on the RCP in the 1980s.
Apparently James has a new book out. Titled “Green Capitalism:
Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance“, it contains the kind of
tirades that are the stock-in-trade of Spiked online. But where most
contributors to Spiked frame their arguments in nebulous terms of
“progress” and “human development”, James is more comfortable invoking
Karl Marx-even if he neglects those aspects of Marx’s writings that
would clash with Spike’s editorial slant. I am of course referring to
Marx’s deep concern about soil fertility, which was to the 19th century
what climate change is today.
While I doubt that I will have either the time or the interest to read
James’s book, I was motivated to write something about an excerpt that
appears on the Metamute website. I don’t know much about this Zine,
except that it seems to attract bright young things from the leftwing of
the academy.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/was-enron-green/
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