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With so much focus on alternative energy production as the be-all and end-all of ecosocialism, it tends to suck up all the oxygen in the room and evade the questions of how humanity can survive when there is no "alternative" method for producing cotton. As the key commodity of capitalism in the 19th century, it is still a vital "use value" for garments--unless we want to walk around in loincloths under socialism. (Maybe not a bad idea.) Is there a way or producing cotton that is "Green"? I doubt it. Charlie Post argues that the plantation system under slavery was a "precapitalist" mode of production, as if the despoliation of southern lands were somehow feudal. Except for the replacement of human labor with machinery, cotton production continues to be a prime example of capitalist contradictions and a challenge to the ecomodernist left with its nuclear and Walmart obsessions.
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