Re: [Marxism] Ecological revolution

[Rod Holt <rholt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The article is interesting but discouraging. Can someone explain what is
going on here?

Quoting from the MR article: "... ecological civilization requires a
social revolution; one that, as Roy Morrison explains, needs to be
organized democratically from below: "community by community...region by
region" (Ecological Democracy)." Wow! John Bellamy Foster here elevates
community organizing to a necessity, as the means to the glorious end!
Could this be what he arrives at as "Organizing Ecological Revolution?"
Just a sad utopianism? From my reading I failed to find a path suggested
from the present to the future.

I have always understood utopian thought as characterized by a
disconnection between the social forces in contradiction and the
proposed resolution (the utopia). In contradistinction, Marx's genius
was to perceive the key social contradiction and precisely characterize
it. Then he noted that the old order produced not only the
contradictions but the means for their resolution--the organized working
class. This observation was consistent with his philosophy of historical
materialism. What do you think Foster's philosophy is? I don't see Man
v. Nature as a *social* contradiction in the sense that gives rise to
dialectical *social* resolution.

       --rod


Louis Proyect wrote:

> http://www.monthlyreview.org/1005jbf.htm
> Organizing Ecological Revolution
> John Bellamy Foster
> [snip]
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