Environmental Marxism

American Thinker ^ | 16 Jan, 2025 | Steve McCann

[MtnClimber]

It is not a coincidence that the current environmental or “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party.

In 2006 the State of California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act mandating an unattainable and massive reduction of greenhouse gasses within the state by 2020. This bill, and mindless near-religious allegiance to the “green” movement, set in motion the recent catastrophic events in Los Angeles and previously throughout much of California, a state that for the past twenty-five years has been increasingly controlled by a Marxist-inspired Democrat Party.

It is not a coincidence that the current environmental or “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party not only in California but on national basis as this movement has its roots in Marxism.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848. The general consensus on the Left is that Marx and Engels were in fact very conscious of and promoted the concept of what is considered to be the modern environmental movement. The current “green” movement is in reality a major facet of Marxist philosophy.

Among those who champion Marx’s environmentalism is Professor John Bellamy Foster of the University of Oregon. In 1997 he published The Crisis of the Earth, Marx’s Theory of Ecological Sustainability as a Nature-Imposed Necessity for Human Production.

Foster wrote, “Marx’s analysis of the crisis of the earth in the mid-nineteenth century led him to a concept of sustainability that was central to his vision of a communist society. Because this concept of sustainability was rooted in both a critique of capitalism and a vision of a future society, it has a richness and complexity all its own. A close examination of Marx’s concept of sustainability therefore offers important insight into the possibilities

[MtnClimber]

Climate change and the COVID pandemic with all of the government “health” rules are just two examples of the left trying to frighten people into accepting total government control of the population.

[Carry_Okie]

The general consensus on the Left is that Marx and Engels were in fact very conscious of and promoted the concept of what is considered to be the modern environmental movement.

Vladimir Lenin put his revoluton on hold to write On Land and On Forests; i.e., his prescription for land use control in what became the Soviet Union.

[MtnClimber]

Yet, as history has amply chronicled, the advocates of communism have had no problem eliminating millions of lives in order to achieve a Marxist utopia. Which neatly dovetails with the primary tenet of the green movement. Human activity causes climate change; therefore, human overpopulation is the cause of virtually all environmental and economic catastrophe. Consequently, any means of reducing the population is therefore acceptable, whether it is a negligently uncontrolled wildfire in Los Angeles, a green-agenda- induced drought or famine, an untested vaccine forcefully administered to untold millions around the globe, or the cataclysmic collapse of societies by accelerating the elimination of fossil fuels.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Carry_Okie]

The environmental move-mint is responsible for the largest mass extirpations in human history, not by developing land, but by "preserving" it, of which I have physical proof. It can be reversed, but restoring native annual forbs isn't easy.

[neverevergiveup]

Marxists / Communists don’t care about the environment. Just look at the USSR and now China. They care about forcing their pathetic defective worldview on everyone else, and they see ‘climate change’ and ‘the environment’ as tools they can use to assert control.

[PGalt]

BTTT

[Candor7]

Karl Marx made a horrible mistake.

He misjudged the nature o human beings, that they have a spiritual drive to remain free, to live in the state of Liberty.

All we have to do is expose those who would be Marxists as destroyers of Liberty. That is what they have done in California. And trhere they must be exposed and defeated.

Every remedy environmentalist have to solve climate change involves totalitarian method, leading to an end of Liberty
and destruction of the “means of production”. They are effing idiots.

[LouAvul]

The communists pledged to secret themselves into American culture (in the 1950s) via seizing a political party, public education, entertainment, and news media outlets, among others. They were clever in targeting entities governed by habitually stupid people in the first place.

American environmentalism was begging to be conquered by totalitarianism purely by virtue of how stupid they all are. It was bound to happen.

[Rlsau1]

If one thinks about it it’s easy to come to the conclusion that all dictatorships are the same. I know, there are lots different types and names of dictatorships, but those are mostly derived from “hair splitting” by academics. When it’s all condensed down, you have the same basic result: Control by the few of the many. The few loot the system for themselves and everyone else basically fuels the engine they control. The only real differences is in the amount of dissent that is allowed, a little for appearances sake or none.

[Nateman]

Watermelon. Green on the outside, red on the inside.

[Qwapisking]

“environmentalism is not love. environmentalism is a hammer we use to crush our enemies” is what Mao would say today.

[Haddit]

California has the Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32). It taxes energy (CO2) use. California Manufacturing has dropped from 15.6% to 7.7% over the last 30 years.
https://www.cmtc.com/blog/statistics-california-manufacturing-jobs
October 13, 2022

Manufacturing provided jobs at every skill level. Now the homeless are implicated in more than 50 percent of fires. DEI intentionally discriminates against White men making some of them homeless. SB 862 designated the redistribution of wealth to the High Speed Rail that guarantees 12 percent will not go to companies owned by White men.

Gavin Newsom says he has a new Marshall Plan. That is probably the implication of SB 375 to develop “Sustainable Communities Strategies” to achieve more efficient land use and transportation.

[Kid Shelleen]

Conspiracy Time in the Hood

Eddie Griffin Says LA Fires Happened Because Government Wants To Build New LA Smart City In 2028

[MtnClimber]

And you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, how many does it take to cook up a smart city.

[central_va]

Green is the new Red. We all know that.

[Tommy Revolts]

In 2006 the State of California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act...

Swept that one under the carpet.

[Sicon]

Vaclav Klaus, the first president of the Czech Republic after the end of nearly four decades of Soviet dictatorship, warned the nations of Europe and the United States, “As someone who lived under communism for most of my life, I feel obligated to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century, is not communism or its various softer versions. It was replaced by ambitious environmentalism.”

[dfwgator]

Smart man.