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L'Humanite
11-18-2013, 09:23 PM
Marxism and sustainable development.
Marx was one of them. Not just that, but with Elisée Reclus, the geographer, anarchist, and man who coined the phrase “man is nature becoming conscious of itself,” Marx the philosopher appears, towards the end of the 19th century, as a precursor in ecological thinking. Better – he was not the die-hard productivist that he has been made out to be. And because people very often don't know this, Roland Charlionet and Luc Foulquier open their work (1) with a (...)
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blindpig
11-19-2013, 12:07 PM
I should like to read this should it come availible in English.

What must be emphasized is that ecological awareness is implicit in the communist program. We are scientific unless we lose our way. The best science today says we must look to all aspects of human activity with respect to climate, resource development, 'ecosystem services', biodiversity for the benefit of humanity, so that is our charge.

We must of course keep in mind that science, like all human activity, is conditioned by "the ruling ideas of the epoch", and must be vigilant that bourgiose ideology does not corrupt the science.