- Capitalism and Alternatives -

Could the Greens be revolutionaries? (take 3)

In Reply to: Marxists, Marxists, and Behaviorists posted by Barry Stoller on August 19, 1998 at 01:17:34:

BS: To insist (as Marxists often do) that seizing the means of production and placing them into the hands of the proletariat will result in more long-term consideration (such as pollution) than at present is to deny the demotic urge for revolution in the first place, i.e. for impoverished and exploited people to 'raise their living standards.'

SDF: I can imagine, however, that if the people were genuinely moved to revolution by the capitalist destruction of their environment, then they might stage a revolution for the sake of wresting control of the world's governments from polluters, dam builders, resource abusers etc. -- this is of course speculative, as the principal movement behind such a revolution, the Green Party, is at present concerned with ascension to power via electoral democracy...

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