This video belongs here. 4 sure.
The capitalist mode of production is toast.
John Bellamy Foster a Professor of Sociology and the Editor of Monthly Review Magazine is introduced.
The Monthly Review Magazine looks interesting. But back to the video. The capitalist mode of production can't endure. Oil runs out. The video admits it.
QuoteThe widespread recognition of Karl Marx as a leading, classical contributor to ecological thought is a fairly recent historical occurrence. The revival of Marx's ecology since the 1960's, and especially since the 1990s, occurred in a number of stages.
The dominant interpretation on the left up through the 1980s faulted Marx for his supposedly instrumentalist, 'Promethean', conception of nature and alleged lack of ecological sensibility.
This view resulted in what has come to be known as 'first stage ecosocialism', characterized by the grafting of Green thought onto Marxism (or in some cases Marxism onto Green thought) based on the presumption that Marx's entire critique was ecologically flawed.
- John Bellamy Foster, The Marx Revival: key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020)
From the video. And more from the video.
QuoteEven an entire society, a nation or all simultaneously existing societies taken together , are not owners of the earth, they are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations
- Karl Marx, Capital Volume II (1894)
28 minutes in Seattle is Mentioned. I think I apprehend a local accent.
37 minutes in the video documents the destruction of the socialist ecological ethic by Stalin.
Closing the video the authors put in a tribute. A short video from VHS days of Murray Bookchin saying he won't live to see it, but we are doomed.. People living under domes on a desert planet. A command economy, fuckedtopia.
I looked Bookchin up. This from Wikipoopaea
QuoteMurray Bookchin's book about humanity's collision course with the natural world, Our Synthetic Environment, was published six months before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.[29]
Bookchin rejected Barry Commoner's belief that the environmental crisis could be traced to technological choices, Paul Ehrlich's views that it could be traced to overpopulation, or the even more pessimistic view that traces this crisis to human nature. Rather, Bookchin felt that our environmental predicament is the result of the cancerous logic of capitalism, a system aimed at maximizing profit instead of enriching human lives: "By the very logic of its grow-or-die imperative, capitalism may well be producing ecological crises that gravely imperil the integrity of life on this planet."
Post-Scarcity Anarchism', Murray Bookchin (1971) – A Book in Five Minutes