Two points in response to Joseph Green:

(1) Everything in capitalism is markets, but not everything
capitalists do is market *fundamentalism*.  The Durban
framework does not transcend markets, but I would not call
it market fundamentalist.

(2) Regarding class struggle: many people who are becoming
critical of the capitalist system nowadays follow an
opposite trajectory than socialists.  Socialists know that
capitalists exploit workers, and therefore they do not find
it surprising that capitalists also wreck the environment.
Modern environmentalists observe that capitalists wreck the
environment, and when they try to understand why capitalists
are allowed to do this, they discover that capitalists own
the means of production and exploit laborers.

The struggle to preserve a livable planet is a class
struggle.  I think the capitalists are so afraid of this
movement and do everything they can to derail the movement
because capitalists know that in the long run they cannot
remain capitalists if the environmental movement gains
enough power to stop the transformation of the planet
into something humans are not adapted to.

> Well, that class struggle -- the one waged by
> establishment environmentalism -- didn't last long, did
> it?

Quite the contrary.  The environmental struggles will last
*very* long, because the habitability of the planet for
humans will continue to be at risk.  I think over time the
movement will also become more aware that it is a class
struggle.  I.e., the socialist dimension will come to the
surface as the movement matures.  Do not write off this
movement because it does not start with the condemnation of
capitalist exploitation.  It is a young movement which will
discover on its own time that it is fighting against a
social system and not just against misguided or greedy
invididuals.

Hans
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