At 08:25 AM 4/23/01 -0700, Paul Dillon wrote:
>One of the fundamentally valid (IMHO) criticisms of dialectical materialism
>and what Marx himself wrote is that he and his followers adopted a position
>that viewed the natural world ("nature's storehouse") as a raw material for
>human use but did not understand human specific, historical existence within
>nature in any systematically ecological way.
That is an *entirely false* statement about Marx's position on the relation
between nature, ecology, and humanity. Read _Philosophical and Economic
Manuscripts_ for the most comprehensive account thereof --- the whole
thing. He saw people as a force of nature, a part of nature, wholly within
nature. Also, equating Marx with "his followers" is utterly fallacious at
so many levels as to be absurd. Would you count Stalin in there? Me?
Trotsky? Ernest Mandel? Who is this group -- "his followers" -- with this
singular perception of "nature's storehouse"?
Phil
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