Michael. I am making a distinction between writing about nature and writing about the
environment. What he wrote about nature or more correctly about the mediate and
immediate relations of purposeful human activity to nature (i.e. labour), is on a
fairly abstract philosophical level. When he wrote about soil fertility, he is dealing
with the more practical influence of human society on nature. So there is no necessary
contradiction between what you wrote and what Lou wrote.
Rod Hay
Michael Perelman wrote:
Rod, what Marx wrote early on about nature was relatively utopian and naive. Only
after the US Civil war did he begin to look more deeply.
Rod Hay wrote:
I would have to side with Lou here. Marx did write about the relations between
society and nature throughout his career. Otherwise, it is impossible to discuss
human labour. His life long interest in the works of Aristotle and Hegel indicate
that.
That is not the same as saying that "took the environment seriously."
Rod Hay
Michael Perelman wrote:
Louis not quite here. It was only with the onset of the Cotton Famine that
they began to take the environment seriously. I have written in my Marx book
that he took the environment more seriously than he let on because he feared
giving too much credence to the Malthusians.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Marx and Engels wrote about the relationship between society and nature
throughout their career.
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