Global warming is doubtless the direct consequence of human industrial activity. The energy needs of the permanent increase in temperature is not provided by human activity, however, it is initiated and catalised by it.

"… the world is today full of people inventing histories and lying about history and that's largely because the people who do this are not actually interested in the past. What they are interested in is something which will make the punters feel good" – said the renowned British Marxist historian in the interview of The Observer upon the publication of his memoirs.

There have been many scapegoats found for one of the worst environmental disasters of the last decades. The "accident" of the oil tanker Prestige, however, was not a coincidence, but the necessary consequence of the unregulated – laissez-faire – globalised economic system, which can happen again any time.

Around the 1970s, the French Left has organised lively intellectual and political debates about the possibilities and conditions of a self-regulating socialism. The socio-economic conditions and metamorphosis of this anti-state and anti-capitalist intellectual movement is worth the scrutiny. The question of the retrospective analysis is whether the principle of self-regulating radical social organisation can be incorporated into the current alternative social movements.