Not trying to tease - and would rather have this post ignored - but
really, how can anyone try to make Marx into some ecologist just on
the basis of a few pages in Capital on soil fertility. Foster would
accomplish alot more if he stop projecting his own thoughts onto
Marx, and simply present
Richard Duchesne:
Not trying to tease - and would rather have this post ignored - but
really, how can anyone try to make Marx into some ecologist just on
the basis of a few pages in Capital on soil fertility. Foster would
accomplish alot more if he stop projecting his own thoughts onto
Marx,
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:
Richard Duchesne:
Not trying to tease - and would rather have this post ignored - but
really, how can anyone try to make Marx into some ecologist just on
the basis of a few pages in Capital on soil fertility. Foster would
accomplish alot more if he stop projecting his own thoughts onto
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Not trying to tease - and would rather have this post ignored - but
really, how can anyone try to make Marx into some ecologist just on
the basis of a few pages in Capital on soil fertility. Foster would
accomplish alot more if he stop projecting his own thoughts onto
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
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
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
[To a very large extent, the work of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett
has been dedicated to re-establishing the ties between Marxism and ecology,
which had existed during Marx's own career as demonstrated by his concern
with the problem of soil fertility. So when Marxists of earlier
