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In the few months that I have been trying to
understand the marxist position thoprugh those on the crashlist, I have not
seen a marxist theory put forward that addresses the fundamental problem of
the environmental crisis, or even the oil crunch. (This may have happened, I
am not always aware of the subtlties that go back and forth via marxist
jargon, forgive me if I missed it. I am honestly looking. Proof: ... I'm
still here on the list.)
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CB: Thanks for hanging in there. I urge you to read some of the basic texts of Marxism
and Marxist political economy - _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_, first chapters
of _Capital_, _Value, Price and Profit_, _The Teachings of Karl Marx_ by Lenin, in
conjunction with the presentations on this list, which are probably not enough in
themselves to fully understand the ideas.
In a few words, the Marxist theory addresses the problem of the environmental crisis
and oil crunch by its demonstration that capitalism's first law is the production of
surplus-value, and that this is pursued to the "ends of the earth", literally and
insanely, regardless of even the fact that it harms our living environment to the
extent of catastrophic crisis. Marxism is unique in teaching that the very most
important premise to stopping the problem of human generated environmental crisis is
ending capitalism, i.e. slaying the God , Surplus-Value.
Marxism also has a theory of the periodic economic crisis, boom-bust cycle of
capitalism. It is rather complicated, requiring some of the reading mentioned above. I
will try to sketch it out if you want, but the "bottomline" is that economic crisis is
linked to the exploitation of workers, because ultimately they are the mass of
consumers , and when exploited , they don't have enough money to buy everything , or
most of what, is produced. This causes profits to fall, and the capitalists start
laying people off.
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