Socialism and Radical Environmentalism

Socialism and Radical Environmentalism
by Bill Muehlenberg
Posted: Monday, December 14, 2009, 15:33 (EST)

Old, failed ideologies seldom are killed off easily, or die off only once. They have a nasty habit of showing up again and again in various guises and with new titles. But the same old discredited notions and failed philosophies keep resurfacing, hoping to take in more gullible recruits.

Socialism was one of these grand ideas which have been tried and found wanting. The writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and co have been roundly discredited, and shown to be appallingly bad ideologies, with hugely negative ramifications.

Thus the entire miserable Soviet experiment has been laid to rest. But it keeps seeking to rear its ugly head. Die-hard socialists continue to push their agenda, ever seeking to find new expressions and manifestations of the same tired old theories.

Therefore the so-called New Left of the 60s was really just a rehashing of the Old Left of the 30s and 40s. It was simply a case of the same tired doctrines being arrayed in new garb. As one heavily involved in the New Left at the time, I am fully aware of how we were simply seeking to breathe new life into an old ideology.

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