AUT: Since when are church groups and World Wildlife Fund anti-capitalist?

[Michael Handelman <mhandelman1@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.commoner.org.uk/01-4groundzero.htm

"It is far more fruitful then to conceive of movements
as the moving of these social relations of struggle?in
crude terms, movements not of people, but of people
doing things. This dynamic approach allows us to
sidestep many of the traps that lie in wait for more
orthodox theorists. For instance, from this
perspective what people do is far more important than
what they say. We no longer have to rely on people?s
own self-definition (?I?m a communist, therefore
everything I do is anti-capitalist?). Conversely, it
allows us to begin to explain why, for example, a
number of church groups and the World Wildlife Fund
were present in Genoa?hardly, on the face of it,
hotbeds of anti-capitalism."

This seems to be an extremely uncritical acceptance of
church groups (organized religion is not revolutionary
anti-capitalism), and the World Wildlife Foundation is
I believe, an organization that is heavily influenced
by right-wing conservatives (and is financed by the
economic elites)....

I find myself more in agreement with such analyses as
this:

http://www.geocities.com/wageslavex/mcraga.htm

"As soon as an attempt is made to move beyond
reforming symptoms and institutions of capital,
towards the real enemy itself, a large part of the
present-day movement (probably a majority in terms of
absolute numbers of movement participants) will drop
out, or, alternatively, the radical faction will split
away from the moderate faction (transforming it from a
mass movement to a ?minoritarian? movement); that is,
more or less all of the ?moderate?, ?fair trade?
faction, including the trade unions, the ?moderate?
environmentalists, religious groups, and
third-worldist groups, will not participate in or
support any attempt to push the movement towards a
direct confrontation with the ruling class as a whole,
and all the presumptions and imperatives of the power
of capital and the state themselves. Such a
confrontation, I assume, is what the radical,
?anti-capitalist? faction of the movement looks
forward to. Of course, some people will be radicalized
within the course of the movement. But how many
moderate reformists can be expected to become radical
revolutionaries within the movement? As long as
existing social conditions don?t deteriorate
drastically, surely not too many."

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