Wonder what Marx would have had to say about nuclear weapons and anthropogenic climate change; the capitalist ability, and apparently intent, to destroy the actual rock we inhabit? I struggle to believe in Mao’s “a bad thing to be turned into a good thing,” and a nuclear crisis being turned into an opportunity for communist revolution in the United States.
All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the labourer, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time, is a progress towards ruining the lasting sources of that fertility. The more a country starts its development on the foundation of modern industry, like the United States, for example, the more rapid is this process of destruction. Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
As long as the individual manufacturer or merchant sells a manufactured or purchased commodity with the usual coveted profit, he is satisfied and does not concern himself with what afterwards becomes of the commodity and its purchasers. The same thing applies to the natural effects of the same actions. What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertiliser for one generation of very highly profitable coffee trees – what cared they that the heavy tropical rainfall afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of the soil, leaving behind only bare rock! In relation to nature, as to society, the present mode of production is predominantly concerned only about the immediate, the most tangible result; and then surprise is expressed that the more remote effects of actions directed to this end turn out to be quite different, are mostly quite the opposite in character.
I mean he already said what needs to be said - climate change is only grander as a concept.
Wonder what Marx would have had to say about nuclear weapons and anthropogenic climate change; the capitalist ability, and apparently intent, to destroy the actual rock we inhabit? I struggle to believe in Mao’s “a bad thing to be turned into a good thing,” and a nuclear crisis being turned into an opportunity for communist revolution in the United States.
I mean he already said what needs to be said - climate change is only grander as a concept.
Worse comes to worst, there is always Posadism 🤷🏽♂️ /jk