Tom Warren asked: > > Where is the comprehension from the marxist community of > the necessity of > understanding the nature of environmental rape? > Nestor is a high-placed leader in a powerful, Marxist-oriented party in Argentina . Why do you think no-one has responded? They are among th most active of all grouops trying to save the rainforest, so what is your point? > With no answer to this cry, will you be surprised when no > one answers your > own calls for help the day it is your house that is > destroyed? You shouldn't > be. > Latin American socialists seem to take the issue of rainforest very seriously. Everyone understands the value of the rainforests. What I think is missing here is comprehgension of the fact that when Marxist political/economci analysis used the term 'value' it is doen so in a highly-technical and also polticisied sense, and the value which is meant is the money value capitalists apply to things which subjectively most people would regard as not really reducible to economc calculi, and that the attempt to tie them on that protean bed is a way of denying the worth of the intrincisc natural value of things, from music to art to mists on mountains to the physical beauty of young men and women. You are just blaming the meesenger for the message. > Oh, I forgot, there is no "value" in a rain forest, except > to Nestor and the > undersigned. > > yeah ... right. Eh? What am I not getting here? Mark _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
