A New Marx Needed

[alanjjohnstone]

“We await a modern Marx who can shake up the Left just as surely as the Right with a trenchant critique of the current economic orthodoxy and a game plan for transformation. The Left, after all, has long been committed to a similarly unrestrained growth paradigm, from the industrial model of communism to the stimulus packages of progressive economists.This Marx will produce not a manifesto for the middle class. Rather, the new synthesis will fuse economics and environmentalism in a way that fundamentally reorients both disciplines. Marx pioneered political economy; Marx 2.0 will pioneer planetary economy. It’s not just about greening capitalism, as if enough solar cells and Prii will save the world. Our current economic system has reached its planetary limit.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/the-new-marx_b_1245612.html

 

Not really as radical as it sounds. One of the links leads to whats called “storm socialism” – the need for more big government organisations such as FEMA.

 

Plus the writer seems oblivious to those who already have advocated steady-state eco-socialism.

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