#+title: Marx's Ecology | Cosmopod

- tags :: [[file:../20200611202011-marx.org][Marx]] [[file:../20200720093911-ecology.org][ecology]] [[file:20200720093957-marx_s_ecology.org][Marx's Ecology]]

* Notes
- Check out "From the Web of Life"
- Foster wants to tease out the ecology in Marx's writings
- Marx was probably not a [[file:../20200720094032-developmentalism.org][developmentalist]]
- Ecological theory is articulated through [[file:../20200628213016-materialism.org][materialism]]
- Marx criticizes [[file:../20200720095122-proudhon.org][Proudhon]] for being Promethean. Marx saw [[file:../20200720095202-prometheus.org][Prometheus]] as a
  revolutionary
- Marx was opposed to [[file:../20200720095234-teleology.org][teleological]] technological 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 [[file:20200611201816-capital.org][Capital Vol. 1]])
- Marx was heavily inspired by [[file:../20200720100044-epicurus.org][Epicurus]]
- [[file:../20200607222010-feuerbach.org][Feuerbach]] was a Hegelian but broke with [[file:../20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]] and 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 [[file:../20200628213059-idealism.org][idealism]] and [[file:../20200713102420-religion.org][religion]]
  - Epicurus's philosophy believed that gods only existed in the spaces between
    atoms
- [[file:../20200623223058-malthus.org][Malthus]] thought 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 [[file:../20200720100506-french_revolution.org][French Revolution]], which sought to create a model
    society and undo class society (to some degree)
- [[file:../20200720100600-darwin.org][Darwin]]'s [[file:../20200720100618-theory_of_evolution.org][theory of evolution]] had more to do with [[file:../20200720100629-co_operation.org][co-operation]] than with
  "survival of the fittest"
- [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]] theorized that intelligence presupposes labor, not the other way around
  - Engels has been vindicated by modern science
- [[file:../20200720100714-class_struggle.org][Class struggle]] can be seen as a sort of social [[file:../20200720100806-natural_selection.org][natural selection]]
- [[file:20200720100823-the_long_twentieth_century.org][The Long Twentieth Century]] talks about the metabolism of society, much like
  this work does
- [[file:../20200720100856-metabolic_rift.org][Metabolic rift]] describes the distance between man and nature. Society is a
  metabolism and outgrowth of nature, yet there's a distinction between them