Carrol, there is a lot of confusion about what is wealth, and Marx was
very confused hmself on this subject.
Wealth is not just 'what can you put in your stomach?', though it might
have seemed that way in Marx's time.
Nature is wealth....Period. As an example, think about the air you
breathe. No human hand has done anything to produce it. Yet, if
you are living in a city like Mexcio City, you would not find anyone not
hoping to have the wealth of pure air again, a part of nature erased
there, by captalist production methods.
Yes, clean air is wealth. Having a nature full of the entire variety
of animals and plant life that we once had is also wealth.
Marx never concentrated on the actual destruction of wealth by
capitalism. He did not notice this so much at the time. So his
mechanistic, and overly economist studies of capitalist structure, have
some major defects in their analysis.
That's what this list should be about, helping people gain a better
understanding of just how capitalism has destroyed natural wealth.
And helping UPDATE marxist theory. Nature IS wealth. Let's not
keep marxists being the only people on the planet still blind to this
elemental truth.
Tony
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Carrol wrote-
<There may be some confusion around what we mean by the term "wealth,"
the material content of wealth or the social relations which constitute
it inside capitalism. But assuming the sense I have been assuming, would
you please explain to me how fish in the sea can become food in my
stomach (or articles for sale in my meat counter) unless human hands
affect them somehow along the line?
Or, approaching it from the other hand, how would any amount of human
activity place food in my stomach unless it had something (ultimately
from nature: fish, peas, etc.)>
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