> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:30:23 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> (Very interesting comments on Marxism and ecology from Christian Parenti
> but some disjunctions. He describes himself as influenced by both Jason
> Moore and William Cronon. Moore has written some brilliant stuff over
> the years but I view Cronon as having dubious connections to
> *environmentalism* as opposed to his writings on *ecology*. Suffice it
> to say that Cronon is more interested in how society acts upon nature
> rather than the need to preserve it. When Parenti says that "The deep
> ecology, left-conservationist version of environmentalism is
> fundamentally defeatist", that is the Cronon influence kicking in. A
> while back I wrote to Donald Worster to get his take on Cronon. This is
> his reply--he calls his position closer to "Green Capitalist" than Karl
> Marx.)
==============
Utterly indispensable to the research and political strategies that may be very
productive going forward is Paul Burkett's "Marxism and Ecological Economics"
E.
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