📚 node [[20200720093851 marx_s_ecology_cosmopod]]

Notes

  • Check out "From the Web of Life"

  • Foster wants to tease out the ecology in Marx's writings

  • Marx was probably not a developmentalist

  • Ecological theory is articulated through materialism

  • Marx criticizes Proudhonfor being Promethean. Marx saw Prometheusas a revolutionary

  • Marx was opposed to teleologicaltechnological progression

    • That is to say that Marx didn't think that technological progress had an end goal, it just happened

    • And that it happened according to social processes, i.e. that it is a process that's happening

  • Technological development is subordinate to social processes (this is mentioned in Capital Vol. 1

  • Marx was heavily inspired by Epicurus

  • Feuerbachwas a Hegelian but broke with Hegeland became a materialist

  • Feuerbach's materialism came from exploring the relationships between human beings

    • Feuerbach felt that man became alienated from his own ideas (hence his ideas on religion). Marx broke with Feuerbach due to alienation of labor

  • Epicurus was seen as the materialist antidote to idealismand religion

    • Epicurus's philosophy believed that gods only existed in the spaces between atoms

  • Malthusthought that human population and food production didn't increase at the same rate, i.e. that human population growth could outpace food production

    • In his own time this was not well received

    • Marx harshly criticizes Malthus

  • Malthus thinks that overpopulation is always happening. Class society is what keeps population in check, thought that reproduction of nature was a steady state, or constant

    • This was a response to the French Revolution which sought to create a model society and undo class society (to some degree)

  • Darwin#39;s theory of evolutionhad more to do with co-operationthan with "survival of the fittest"

  • Engelstheorized that intelligence presupposes labor, not the other way around

    • Engels has been vindicated by modern science

  • Class strugglecan be seen as a sort of social natural selection

  • The Long Twentieth Centurytalks about the metabolism of society, much like this work does

  • Metabolic riftdescribes the distance between man and nature. Society is a metabolism and outgrowth of nature, yet there's a distinction between them

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