Are Mark Udall and Bill Ritter Closet Marxists?

OK, we admit it.  We are addicted to Google Alerts.  We get stuff from all over the world on some subjects. There are some really wild-eyed folks out there, even wilder-eyed than Boulder Liberal Mark Udall and Bill Ritter when it comes to writing about climate change.

One of the most sane of the wild-eyed sites is the Devon Socialist Party Articles blog.  That's right, these folks are real, honest-to-goodness Marxists.  Here are two paragraphs that Boulder Liberal Mark Udall and Bill Ritter could easily agree with though they would be reluctant to admit that they are advancing a Marxist agenda:

We must also ask ourselves as Socialists what do doomsday prophesies achieve? Do we really think that we can win people to Socialism by telling them that the human race and Capitalist industrial development may already have destroyed the environment and therefore the future? Why would anyone bother with Socialism – or any other form of society - under those circumstances?

Rather as Marxists we should be pointing out that both safeguarding the environment for the future of Humanity and coping with the impacts of inevitable ‘climate change’ can only be effectively dealt with, and planned for, by a Socialist Society, organized on a global scale, which could address those issues and effect necessary change across the earth, seas and skies. A society which could ensure our future sustainability, utilizing all our resources and technology effectively and efficiently for the benefit of the whole human race and the whole planet.

The funny thing is that the Marxists are a bit more sane that Boulder Liberal Mark Udall and Bill Ritter, two environmentalist puritans:

A positive socialist program on the environment, highlighting the benefits of moving towards renewable sources of energy and a low carbon society, will serve as a contrast to those in the environmental movement who seek to impose an environmental puritanism on people, particularly less well-off people who won’t be able to afford to maintain their standard of living with extra ‘green’ taxes on everything, while the well-off continue to consume and travel as before.

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