http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/englund5.html
Are there other examples of socialists that have come to embrace
environmentalism? Indeed, there is an environmentalist in power today.
Libya's dictator, Muammar Al Qadhafi is an unabashed Green Socialist (I
prefer to call him a Green Communist). In fact, Qadhafi has written a
book that many Greens believe is the manifesto for Green Socialism. This
book is titled The Green Book (it is a three volume set). I have read
all three volumes and each one was quite disturbing. In this book, he
talks about capitalist exploitation, money, profits, plants, animals,
people, and families: all in a manner that ring familiar with the dogma
chanted by such groups as Greenpeace, PETA, Earth First!, among others.
The following points highlight several of Colonel Qadhafi's views as
conveyed by The Green Book:
Under capitalism, wage workers are slaves.
Land is no one's property. But everyone has the right to use it.
The only thing a man really owns are his own needs. It is up to a
socialist society to provide for such needs (i.e. food, clothing,
shelter, and trans****tation).
Upon the overturning of capitalist societies (via revolution), money and
profit will disappear.
Collective needs, rights, demands, and objectives of a nation are bound
by a single nationalism. Nationalism in the world of man, and group
instinct in the animal kingdom, are like gravity in the domain of
mineral and celestial bodies. Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are
subject to ruin.
The family is exactly like an individual plant in nature which is
composed of branches, leaves, and blossoms. If human society reached the
stage where man existed without a family, it would become a society of
tramps, without roots, like artificial plants.
All living creatures are created free and any interference with that
freedom is coercion.
First and foremost, Qadhafi is an anti-capitalist as reflected in the
first four points. Without question, he has adopted Marx's views about
capitalism's alleged exploitation of workers and Marx's loathing of
money. Secondly, as shown by the last three points, he has melded
National Socialism into his brand of communism (which I call Green
Communism). Much like Hitler viewed Germany as an organic whole (i.e.
made up of people, plants, animals, natural resources, etc.), Qadhafi
views Libya as a collective organism with a "life" of its own.
Naturally, global warming poses a threat to Libya's "life".
Just to give you an additional "taste" of how bizarre Qadhafi's book is,
here is a biocentric excerpt from volume three of The Green Book:
To dispense with the natural role of woman in maternity - i.e. nurseries
replacing mothers - is a start in dispensing with the human society and
transforming it into a biological society with an artificial way of
life. To separate children from their mothers and to cram them into
nurseries is a process by which they are transformed into something very
close to chicks, for nurseries are similar to poultry farms in which
chicks are crammed after they are hatched. Nothing else would be
appropriate for man's nature, and would suit his dignity, except natural
motherhood, (i.e. the child is raised by his mother.) + in a family
where the true principles of motherhood, fatherhood, and brotherhood
prevail, + rather than in a center similar to a poultry breeding farm.
Poultry, like the rest of the members of the animal kingdom, needs
motherhood as a natural phase. Therefore, breeding them on farms similar
to nurseries is against their natural growth. Even their meat is closer
to synthetic meat than natural meat. Meat from mechanized poultry farms
is not tasty and may not be nouri****ng because the chicks are not
naturally bred, i.e. they are not raised in the protective shade of
natural motherhood. The meat of wild birds is more tasty and nouri****ng
because they grow naturally and are naturally fed. As for children who
have neither family nor shelter, society is their guardian, only for
them should society establish nurseries and the like. It is better for
those to be taken care of by society rather than by individuals who are
not their parents.
Obviously, Qadhafi is taking a stab at nurseries and daycares which are
now prevalent in capitalist societies. The comparison of children to
chickens must warm the hearts of animal rights activists (this is
biocentrism at its best). For Libya to remain a strong collective
organism, nothing less than free-range children will do. This is truly
bizarre stuff.
So what has Green Socialism brought Libya? It is a third-world country
with an impoverished people. Its main ex****t is well-trained terrorists.
What a utopia.
Let's get back to the alleged threat global warming is posing to
humanity. Paragons of virtue like Qadhafi and Gorbachev are sounding the
alarm. Alas, this alarm is being sounded in order to form a united front
against "capitalist exploitation of Mother Earth" while the truth about
global warming is being ignored (scientific evidence does not sup****t
the assertion of global warming). Environmentalists are terrorizing
people with ghastly misinformation ****traying our impending doom.
Ultimately, it is the goal of environmentalists to terrify people
(particularly those living in industrialized nations) into believing
that their conduct has universal implications relevant to humanity as a
whole. If the psychological terror campaign succeeds, then people
(especially in the West) will be browbeaten into trading liberty and
private property rights for the "safety" of our planet.
At this point, Green Socialism will have won using global warming as its
Trojan horse.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
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