Enviromarxism: Environmentalism allows a collectivist elite to obtain bureaucratic control of privately controlled land, labor and capital without firing a shot
How do you legitimize taking wealth from the citizens of a country that produce wealth and jobs and give it to those that do not? A hundred years ago, collectivists could rely on the writings of Karl Marx to promote class envy and advocate class warfare to create a utopian communist state where the means of production were communally shared among the citizens of a country. However, the reality of communism is that after a violent revolution that destroyed private ownership of land and capital, capitalism was replaced by a far more repressive dictatorship that destroyed millions of lives and constrained all but the elite in the Communist party into lives of misery.
