Green Policies a Substitute For Anti-Capitalist, Anti-American Ideas

May 31, 2011 06:22


Anti-capitalism is the real thrust behind the green movement and this “new economy” movement is just the latest vehicle for those creaking, failed communist-based ideas.

By Warner Todd Huston at Publius’ Forum

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Those anti-capitalist college professor types that used to sneer at America and supported the murderous antics of the Soviets had for a short time after the fall of the U.S.S.R. no place in which to invest their anti-American ideals. However, it is clear that they have found a new home: greenism.

One of the latest examples of this surrogacy is indulged by the University of Maryland’s Gar Alperovitz with a piece in The Nation entitled “The New-Economy Movement.”

In this piece, Alperovitz not only openly admits that the so-called “new economy” thinking is simply today’s dumping grounds for ages old, communist philosophy — evinced in buzz words like social justice, egalitarianism, and sustainable communities — he claims they will never be satisfied and that as time moves on, the demands of these enviro-centric economic theories will grow “much more radical.”

Back in the 1970s Alperovitz was also a legislative aide to the terminally silly Senator Gaylord Nelson, a progressive from Wisconsin and one of the founders of “Earth Day” observances. Nelson, it will be remembered, was sold on the communist idea of “zero population growth” and wished for the stagnation of American society to “save the planet.”

Like all enviro-communists who want a sheen of legitimacy to be spread protectively across their old, failed ideas Alperovitz is desperate to make people think that the Civil Rights movement and the green religionists are one and the same, that both are/were striving for legitimate human rights. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

But Alperovitz’ piece is instructive. It reveals that greenism is a mere facade behind which ages old communist ideas hide. Anti-capitalism is the real thrust behind the green movement and this “new economy” movement is just the latest vehicle for those creaking, failed communist-based ideas.

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