Toward a Green way of being
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.)