I’ve seen this piece pop up as some counter in forums or elsewhere online. Its very bizarre, at least in my opinion.
At one point in the piece it says communist led world will still pollute earth like capitalist excesses already do. Down further says how the evil soviets did holodomor genocide or evil ccp great leap genocide and its a ecological destruction.
I don’t think most communists are unaware of climate catastrophe or urgency of tackling meat or fossil fuel industry. I don’t think those things come about by some divine stroke of shift popular beliefs overnight cause individuals one at a time will influence masses with their choices.
Also the beginning section is odd to me. I don’t know if communists or some nominal left leaning people say the ethical consumption line to write off and justify horrible state of the system.
As far as I understand the statement on no ethical consumption : its an indictment of this untenable system and how deeply entwined it is with all forms oppression in order to keep it going.
I don’t know overall I think this article is unproductive.
It’s why anarchism is deeply ableist.
I’d die without meds. I cannot be a subsistence farmer without a greater, industrial support network to provide those medications.
I am forced to conclude that this person’s ideal world involves me dying.
People.underestimate how much we rely on society, “the collective”. Even Henry David Thoreau admitted that he needed society to buy tools and things like nails when he went to live alone in the woods.
Even if a person can live alone, without contact for a while, they will eventually grow old or have an accident, catch a disease, get attacked by an animal, and need society’s care.
This persons ideal wolrd involves a lot of people dying. His romantic idea of agriculture can not produce enough food to feed everyone.