Toward a Green way of being

Steven Welzer
Feb 7, 2022

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Communism failed because it had an unrealistic ideal re: “internationalism”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale

It runs counter to an identitarian sense of a “way of being” . . . a Hindu way, a Muslim way, a Christian way, a Buddhist way . . . just to name the most predominant.

Could we develop a Green way of being?

Precepts: Ecology, Community, Responsibility, Democracy, Justice, Sustainability, Nonviolence, Bioregionalism, Feminism, Diversity.

(Some on the left express concern that a Green communitarianism could lead to “eco-fascism.” I think there is something natural and nothing wrong with a distinctive [rather than generalized, universalized, homogenized] sense of identity, community, commonality, “way of being.” It became rabid in Germany after WWI due to the humiliations and retributions imposed on the Germans by the vindictive peace treaty of 1920.)

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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