[Marxism] "Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy"

[Louis Proyect]

David Walters wrote:
> Gwyneth, like Stuart Brand, Patrick Moore, James Lovelock, and Bishop 
> Hugh Montefiore is a "switcher" or a "convert" who has spent a good deal 
> of time in the anti-nuclear world. She is a resident of Long Island who 
> participated in the successful, and ultimately very expensive, fight to 
> prevent Long Island Lighting Co. from operating the Shoreham Nuclear 
> Power Plant. However, as a native of Albuquerque, NM, she had the 
> opportunity to develop a social acquaintance with Rip Anderson, one of 
> the leading researchers and practitioners of probabilistic risk 
> assessment of nuclear facilities.


Comrades should understand that there are other Marxists who share 
David's pro-nuke proclivity.

One is a German group called Neue Einheit. You can read their defense of 
nuclear power here:

http://www.neue-einheit.com/english/memo/is2000-17e.htm

They also take a stand against "aggressive homosexualism" here:

http://www.neue-einheit.com/english/is/is1998/is10_98e.htm

There's also somebody named Rolf Martens, who used to belong to Neue 
Einheit but got expelled for being a CIA agent or something like that. 
Or maybe he quit, accusing Neue Einheit of being CIA agents 
themselves--I can't recall.

Martens has written even more posts defending nuclear energy than David, 
as far as I know. He is particularly agitated about the bum rap 
Chernobyl got:

--
Most damaging is the public fear that this myth perpetuates,
making it difficult for many scientists to present the real
evidence of the beneficial effects of low-level radiation that
have been observed on humans and other living things. It is,
therefore, not surprising that the very important UNSCEAR
2000 Report received very little publicity.

So, the myths about cancer and abnormal babies will continue,
as scientists carry out more and more politically correct and
politically funded research on the response of cells and mice
to radiation.
--

He's also a global warming skeptic:

--
The reason why you're being told by those politicians and mass media, 
and now by practically all of them in unison, that this impact "is on 
its way to get disastrous! - unless we mend our ways very much! - and 
everybody now agrees on that!" instead is quite another one. They are 
saying this because the class struggle between the proletariat and the 
bourgeoisie in the world is getting more and more intensive, mainly 
"under the surface", and because the ruling reactionary cliques more and 
more fear the people in all countries. These cliques' big "greenhouse" 
scam precisely is one part of their desperate attacks at present, in 
several fields, against practically everybody on eart
--

His website is at: http://www.rolf-martens.com/

Finally, there's spiked-online, which if not exactly Marxist does 
include a number of people who used to be in a group called the 
Revolutionary Communist Party. As I understand it, they take the same 
stand on specific questions such as nuclear power or DDT as they always 
did, but don't see any particular need to invoke Karl Marx.

Here's a Spiked Online defense of nuclear power:

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2876/