Richard Greeman
Richard Greeman is a long-time Marxist activist.
Background
From his biography at PM Press:[1]
- "Richard Greeman has been active since 1957 in civil rights, anti-war, anti-nuke, environmental and labor struggles in the U.S., Latin America, France (where he has been a longtime resident) and Russia (where he helped found the Praxis Research and Education Center in 1997). Like Victor Serge, the Franco-Russian revolutionary novelist to whom Richard has devoted many translations and biographical studies, Richard places Marxism and Anarchism in the larger context of socialism and internationalism and sees them as complimentary.
- "Richard has distilled his half-century experience of radical activism and political reflexion in his satirical Beware of Capitalist Sharks: Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays (Illustrated) where he proposes the human predicament in the form of a Pascalian bet :
- "If there remains a marginal chance chance for human society to survive globalized capitalism's terminal economic and ecological crises, it would entail replacing the competitive profit system with a planetary network of producers -- a green cooperative commonwealth. Against the near certainty of planetary catastrophe under predatory capitalism, we must bet our lives on the unlikely dream of a massive Emergence of revolutionary solidarity among the planet’s 99% overthrowing capitalism and establishing a harmonious, healthy ecosocialist world. We are at the tipping point, and no lesser solution will save us. It is a bet we can't refuse, and today with the Internet everywhere available and instant computer translating improving every day, the 150 year-old revolutionary internationalist call has become a technical possibility : « Working people of all lands, Unite ! We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have a world to win ! » "
Left Forum 2011
Interconnections between Ecological and Economic Crises and Implications for International Solidarity:
- Sponsored by: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and Human Geography: A New Radical Journal
- Ariel Salleh, Department of Political Economy, Clark University
- Elaine Hartwick, Department of Geography, Framingham State University
- Richard Greeman, Victor Serge Foundation
- Richard Peet, Department of Geography
- Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, SUNY New Paltz
Socialist Scholars Conference
Alexandr Buzgalin, Richard Greeman and Sam Farber were speakers on the Self management and the Future of the October Revolution panel sponsored by the Radical Philosophy Association at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City[2]
New Politics
As of 2009 Richard Greeman served as a sponsor of New Politics, magazine almost completely staffed and run by members of Democratic Socialists of America[3].
Students for a Democratic Society
Richard Greeman was a member of Students for a Democratic Society as revealed in the November/December 1968 edition of Radicals in the Professions, published by the Radical Education Project out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Richard Greeman wrote an article for that publication where he described himself as an "assistant professor of French at Columbia" and a "Marxist-Humanist". [4]
References
- ↑ https://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/RichardGreeman accessed June 5 2019
- ↑ SSE Tenth Annual Conference Program, 1992
- ↑ http://ww3.wpunj.edu/newpol/whoweare.htm#eds
- ↑ http://ww3.wpunj.edu/newpol/whoweare.htm#edshttp://www.sds-1960s.org/sds_wuo/radicals/images/radicals_01.jpg accessed June 5 2019
