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“*All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil…. Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth—the soil and the worker.”* *—*Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry” Issues and terms covered in this essay, in part: - adaptive multi-paddock grazing - mob-grazing - intensive rotational grazing - holistic management - regenerative/restorative agriculture - no till farming - cover cropping - agro-ecology These are all terms that are overlapping concepts dealing with *mimicking nature* to restore the land, grow food and ending the negative effects of climate change due to factory farming [technically called “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFOs]. FULL: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/10/10/developing-a-marxist-approach-to-global-agriculture-a-primer-on-the-role-of-animals-in-maintaining-soil-health/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
