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Does the environmental movement require a 'vanguard'?

In Reply to: There's 'early Marx' and 'late Marx'. posted by bill on October 25, 1999 at 11:25:01:

: [This romanticism (IMO) is far more radical, but totally impractable, except in so far as it can provide an emotionally informed energy source for evolving into the more pragmatic, critically minded, political transformation]

: There's leadership and then there's leadership. I'm suspicious of "vanguardism" that is not informed by "the logic of the heart".

Does the environmental movement require a "vanguard"? Did the Civil Rights Movement? (Martin Luther King was able to articulate the aims once he caught up with the front of the parade) (and then there's the situationist "hippies").

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: *quotes from: From Affluence to Praxis by Mihailo Markovic - pp177-8. (Interestingly, pp.173-4 provides a little more extensive (and slightly different translation) of the "The Holy Family" quote!)

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