Green Marx

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/21743-missing-the-marx-more-or-less-on-intellectual-failure-and-environmental-catastrophe

I found this article quite instructive even if i haven't read or heard of Livingston, Owen and only heard of Jevons.

 

"….Livingston’s dream of a greener mass-consumer- and use-value-driven capitalism (calling for “more”) and Owen’s dream of a sustainable capitalism (calling for less) are both beside the point. It’s not about consuming and producing less or more at the end of the day. It’s about what: (a) production and consumption for the common good and in accord with democratic principles, or (b) production and consumption for private profit, under the command of the unelected dictatorship of capital? A growing body of earth science and historical understanding suggests rather strongly that human survival and the survival of other living things on Earth requires a fairly rapid transcendence of the latter by the former. As the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Istvan Meszaros put it thirteen years ago, “We are running out of time. . . . The uncomfortable truth of the matter is that if there is no future for a radical mass movement in our time, there can be no future for humanity itself.” "

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