We’ve always sort of wanted to broach this subject, but figured that if we brought up the logical affinities between environmentalism and communism people would take it as an opportunity to mention Lenin before dismissing the idea outright.

Thankfully, TreeHugger’s Brian Merchant has made a great listicle outlining 6 Green Lessons Learned From Communism. Our favorite is point number 4 about facilitating Public Service Systems, which we only just learned was a real term but have long thought were an essential and oft-overlooked socialist-style resource.