From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 08:46:59 EDT
Hi Paul Z. > Since Sept. 13, the Nader/Camejo web site carries every day a new > 'featured national asset', today being The Amish. Without saying so but > connected to yesterday's press release for the Nader/Camejo Campaign -- > "Global Climate Change Requires Us to Break Our Addiction to Fossil > Fuels", it offers a way forward as humanity destroys millions of years of > fossil fuel build-up. While Amish communities can not be considered to be "Utopian Socialist" -- perhaps "Utopian Capitalist" might be a better description -- the belief that the Amish experience and lifestyle can be generalized while the capitalist mode of production dominates and this "offers a way forward" could be subjected to a critique similar to Marx's critique of Utopians like Owen and Fourier, don't you think? Of course, many radical environmentalists -- including a lot of my anarchist friends -- reject that critique of Marx and defend Utopianism. The ideology of the Green Party is, at least partially, self-consciously Utopian, I think. "Is small beautiful?" is a related question. In solidarity, Jerry
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