Archive for 'Metabolic rift'
Marxism and the natural world
Posted by John, January 3rd, 2011 - under Marx, Marxism, Metabolic rift.
Tags: Environment
Comments: 12
Many of Marx’s writings contain a strong environmental critique; his understanding of humans’ relationship to nature was a core feature of his analysis. Marx’s starting point was seeing that humans, like all living things, have a dialectical relationship to the earth. We come from and are affected by the natural environment, and in turn we impact on and shape the environment around us.
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Capitalism is not sustainable
Posted by John, April 27th, 2010 - under John Bellamy Foster, Marxism, Metabolic rift.
Tags: Capitalism, Climate change, Environment
Comments: 3
Capitalism as a system of unpaid costs will lead to barbarism in the form of ecological collapse, unless there’s a movement for a different kind of system.
The Enlightenment and climate change
Posted by John, December 10th, 2009 - under Metabolic rift, Socialism, The enlightenment.
Tags: Anthropogenic gobal warming, Capitalism, Climate change, Global Warming
Comments: 2
We socialists sometimes say we are the children of the enlightenment. I might add some of us think we are not just its children but its true inheritors. What was the Enlightenment and why is it relevant today? The development of capitalism in the bosom of feudal Europe created the need for an understanding of the world around […]