May Day is a good time to do some re-thinking

For years on May Day leftists gathered and sang The Internationale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day

This year let’s consider that the socialist movement dates from the 1820s and so is now 200 years old. Is that a cause for celebration? or a motivation to finally recognize its failure and do some deep re-thinking?

In two hundred years there has not been a single enduringly successful implementation of the full socialist vision (i.e., an economy based on socialization of society’s major productive assets). Not one. So perhaps we — Greens, especially — should be talking about a different alternative to capitalism.

The “greening of society” might very well need to include a period of eco-socialism in order to de-fang the ruinous globalized capitalism system. But the ultimate vision of that transition should be bioregionalist and not socialist.

Here’s an article to that effect: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v03sb-02.pdf

And here’s a discussion about it: https://green-horizon.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GHM42_web.pdf