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From a marketing standpoint, Green New Deal makes more since as The New Deal is much better known. But no doubt, the Green Reconstruction would be a more accurate and appropriate name. As big and violent and dramatic and transformative as the labor struggles of the 1920’s and 1930’s and subsequent New Deal were, Reconstruction was all those things and more.
The Green New Deal is a vision where a powerful multi racial coalition dictates terms of a new age to the incumbent ruling class. That sounds far more like Reconstruction than than the New Deal which was largely a negotiated settlement between the White working class and capital.
I hope we can make permanent and systemic that which was fleeting during the time of Reconstruction and when it’s 2050 and we got our full luxury automated socialism, we’ll write the history and retroactively rename the Green New Deal the “Radical Green Reconstruction.”