a critique of political ecology

27, he/him, christ haunted, left communist, soil listener

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Damn... Maybe they should go home for safety?

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What was her problem?

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What's the matter big boy? Price signals not enough for you?

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I LOVE watching people operate machinery 😍

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Real ones can find me in the miscibility gap

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I'm 28 🤔

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I wonder if Maoists ever did anything interesting with the letter(s) to Zasulich 🤔

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KINNOCK

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Here's my review of 'Marx in the Anthropocene' which was posted yesterday

Degrowth and Marxism: A Critique

(Review of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (2023) by Kohei Saito. Published by Cambridge University Press.)

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@edwad The basic gist of my thoughts on degrowth are twofold.

1. It's putting the cart before the horse. The things people want that are called degrowth are good but inside capitalist society all it will amount to is making more effecient the process of capital accumulation, which will eventually have an even more negative ecological effect.

2. Attempts to marry degrowth thought with Marxism (Saito's project) will fail because degrowth thought has a mechanistic view of society based on naturalising certain social forms. Discussions of how much energy we can save/how much more we can produce using degrowth methods are interesting but ultimately neaningless because they are measured assuming capitalist forms.

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There's so much degrowth discourse lately. It should be my time to shine. But instead it's focused on the one object I have a paralysing irrational fear of :(

My review of 'Marx in the Anthropocene' will be published soon so I might be able to engage obliquely.

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Enough about the Zuckerberg/Musk billionaire cage fight. I want to see an Andreas Malm/Jason W. Moore eco-Marxist cage fight.

Andreas Malm, with his musuclar Trotskyism giving him a strong and dogged right hook would appear to be the favourite. But Moore’s erratic movement and autonomist-inflected energetic heterodoxy could make things unpredictable.

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I would love to see an argument between a young earth creationist (ie. someone who believes the earth is 6000 years old), a New Chronolgist (ie. someone who believes modern dating techniques are faulty and that most historical events prior to 1600AD are invented), and a Hyperborea/Tataria proponent (ie. someone who believes there was an advanced lost civilization 10 000 years ago)

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I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

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I’m in the last 47.33% 

I shouldn’t have taken that test

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Am I fucking stupid LMAO

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Urbanoid suggests adopting animism to repair our relationship with nature, citing positively the example of idigenous societies who respect the spirits of their environment. Fails to realise that the mirage of an intellectual marketplace where ideas can be adopted and employed at will free from material constraint is itself a product and continuation of the same ecologically dysfunctional capitalist society they are trying to escape.

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A stupid method produces stupid results

The exploits of university Marxism (1977) - International Communist Party, Il programma comunista

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Happy Easter!

Thank you! Happy easter to you too :D