Environmentalism and Marxism (5): Ecology Strikes Back

#5 makes the shift from high dialectical theory and instead explores how these ideas combine in the roots of the dialectical environmentalist movement. The key innovation that has been emerging through Canguilhem and Sartre is the relation of organism to milieu, and in the human context, our lived expereince of the milieu, its being changed by us and of us being influenced by our reformed milieu. The ecological theses are developed in the 1960's and 1970's, we look at their more direct underpinnings by figures like Murray Bookchin and Barry Commoner; both were speakers at Earth Day 1970, a key date in the birth of the leftist form of the environmentalist movement. At the end, an environmentalist path to totalitarianism has been generated, and is to be taught to children who will lead the charge to reform morality and culture.Show more

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