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- Ecology Another movement that has affected the way many Socialists perceive reality is the environmental movement. Capitalism within its logic of expression has run into the problem of limited resources. At the same time, the environmental movement has called into question the older superficial socialist view that the only thing wrong with industrialism is who controls it (The somewhat flippant Bolshevik definition of socialism as “soviets plus electrification” is an example of the approach.) But unlimited growth does not have to be the basis for an economy – if the economy is structured not on the basis of profits but if human needs. Marx’s concept of reification –of a technology that makes things out of people- can be extended to look at a technology which seems to exist for its own ends, rather than for human ends. In place of this technology, socialists can offer democratic economic planning, which can have as its criteria environmental soundness and full employment. For further Reading: Andre Gorz, Ecology as Politics E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful John Bellamy Foster, Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature Handbook Home Page - |
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