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‘The Planet Can’t Keep Doing Us A Favour’ By David Cromwell
29 May 2013 — Media Lens
Sometimes we get so sick of the phrase ‘history in the making’ that the brain tends to switch off. What is it this time?, we sigh. A new high-tech piece of military technology that will boost US killing power? A big jump in a newspaper’s online advertising revenue? The world’s best footballer, Lionel Messi, joining ‘an exclusive list of adidas athletes to have their own signature product’? Sometimes the ‘history’ in question only stretches back a few years, maybe a century or two. Only very occasionally, if the claim is truly deserved, does it stretch back to the earliest era of written records.
Yet another amusing attempt by a “neo-communist” to hijack the Green ideology! “Neocoms” are people who realise that the communist dictatorships are undefendable and that there is little point in waiting for Stalin to rise from the dead or for the Cuban army to “liberate” Moscow. But they haven’t the intellectual courage to admit that they backed the wrong horse or even, that communism had nothing to do with socialism and was in fact the first (and last!) of the many forms of fascism with which 20th century Europe was afflicted. Or, indeed, that communism and Marxism are now dead, buried and discredited, whereas socialism has been an enormous success. And so the “neocoms” thrash about for an ideology to hijack. That individual former communists might become Greens is credible. That the Green ideology can be straightjacketed into old-fashioned Marxism is absurd.