Re: [Marxism] Cynthia McKinney supports Reconstruction Party

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

David wrote:

"Well, the situation might be different in the US. Moreover the  
incentive of
breaking the 2-party system is higher there than in most of continental
Europe. That said I've met a couple of people who seriously said  
that, if it
could be done, they would hope for a genetically engineered virus  
that would
kill all pulses and cereals so that we would have to go back to
hunter-gatherer societies and leave the aggriculture and industry, so  
that
there couldn't be excessive power accumulations. Most Greens I talk  
to don't
go that far, fortunately."

This isn't green politics. Rather, it's what we call neo-primitivism,  
or anarcho-primitivism.  For the most compelling read on the subject,  
I would recommend Derrick Jensen's ENDGAME.  From Wikipedia:

"Jensen is often labeled an anarcho-primitivist, by which is meant he  
concludes that civilization[3] is inherently unsustainable and based  
on violence. He argues that the modern industrial economy is  
fundamentally at odds with healthy relationships, the natural  
environment, and indigenous peoples. Jensen's work catalogues what he  
perceives as the pervasiveness of abuse, hatred, rape, environmental  
destruction, and dishonesty (which he says serves to maintain the  
systemic abuse of civilization). He concludes that the very  
pervasiveness of these behaviors indicates that they are diagnostic  
symptoms of the greater problem of civilization itself. Accordingly,  
he exhorts readers and audiences to help bring an end to industrial  
civilization."

Although I disagree with his strategies, his arguments regarding the  
critique of civilization are powerful, and should be read in tandem  
with people like Stanley Diamond and Marshall Sahlins. You won't find  
any neo-romanticist religiosity here either. Jensen has an  
engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.

To follow up on a point by L. Proyect, an excellent critique of deep  
ecology from an anarchist perspective would be found in Murray  
Bookchin's  THE ECOLOGY OF FREEDOM.


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