Title: A rambling tome
Product review: Joel Kovel's book sounds like a college lecture: rambling and with a lot of "sophisticated" intellectual words.His eco-socialist program is extremely confused.Apparently, the author believes that a "Green" economy is compatible with high tech, using an obscure Christian community known as the Bruderhof as an example. Kovel's criticism of Murray Bookchin is very weak, perhaps because he and Bookchin are so similar?Kovel also calls for a centralized planned economy, while claiming it could be run in a democratic fashion. How come no such system ever existed anywhere in the world? Further, one wonders how the eco-socialist program should be implemented, and by whom? Most people don't want to give up their high standard of living...Frankly, this book was a disappointment.
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