PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
It cannot be stated often enough that environmentalism, far from a science, is merely one more way that Marxism is transfused into society.
1. Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.
4. On the obverse, capitalism and profit are anathema to Marxists....and that view is central to its spin-off, environmentalism. While nature is the highest goal for this 'art,' at the lowest level we find critiques of 'greed,' and 'evil corporations,' and 'that virus known as mankind.'
5. Environmental activist Wallace Kaufman spotlights the error in the above in an anecdote in his perceptive tome, " No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking."
He writes:
"...Stanley Selengut, who runs Maho Bay Camp in the US Virgin Islands as an ecotourism resort, says protecting the environment pays. [He uses] recycled materials, and natural energy sources, serves health foods, landscapes with natural plants, uses low-flow toilets and showers, avoids toxic materials, encourages the simple life, and more.....solar panels and a windmill. And Stanley doesn't mind telling everyone that Maho Bay makes a 20 percent profit!
...but the broad generalizations that people make from his success do not hold up. Stanley succeeds in great measure because his resort appeals to environmentalists who believe what he is doing is right.
In a similar manner, a church survives and grows because its believers fill the offering plate, not because its faith is better than another faith."
Seems that applying environmentalist doctrine to society in general would benefit all......
....or does it.
1. Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.
- Therefore, emotions, such as love, are no more than chemistry. And it suggests that it is only genes and environment that determine our actions, and free will plays no role. And, of course, God and religious beliefs are nonsense.
- From Marx on, the Left has fought against religion for the above reason, and because they understood how difficult it is to get religious people to engage in revolution for the purpose of bettering their material lives. Such folks often relegate the material world to lower priority than the spiritual, moral and intellectual world. 2. The Left’s concept of materialism broadens into the overarching desire to see every individual materially equal. The Left is less interested in creating wealth than in distributing it, and has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
4. On the obverse, capitalism and profit are anathema to Marxists....and that view is central to its spin-off, environmentalism. While nature is the highest goal for this 'art,' at the lowest level we find critiques of 'greed,' and 'evil corporations,' and 'that virus known as mankind.'
5. Environmental activist Wallace Kaufman spotlights the error in the above in an anecdote in his perceptive tome, " No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking."
He writes:
"...Stanley Selengut, who runs Maho Bay Camp in the US Virgin Islands as an ecotourism resort, says protecting the environment pays. [He uses] recycled materials, and natural energy sources, serves health foods, landscapes with natural plants, uses low-flow toilets and showers, avoids toxic materials, encourages the simple life, and more.....solar panels and a windmill. And Stanley doesn't mind telling everyone that Maho Bay makes a 20 percent profit!
...but the broad generalizations that people make from his success do not hold up. Stanley succeeds in great measure because his resort appeals to environmentalists who believe what he is doing is right.
In a similar manner, a church survives and grows because its believers fill the offering plate, not because its faith is better than another faith."
Seems that applying environmentalist doctrine to society in general would benefit all......
....or does it.