12/31/2023 0 Comments Jean claude juncker karl markxThis text is so far removed from Soviet interpretations of Marxism that they dubbed it anti-Marxist.Ĭertainly relevant and timely today is that Marx also wrote about the need to defend indigenous peoples and the racially oppressed. In them, Marx described human nature, the need for autonomy and well-being. Mason cites late works of Marx that went unpublished for a century. Paul Mason, author of the bestseller Postcapitalism writes that Marx is more relevant today than ever in the age of automation: “If we are to defend human rights against authoritarian populism we must have a concept of humanity to defend”. Asked to comment on Marx as an environmentalist, Lievens said that Marx wrote about the metabolic interaction (“Stoffwechsel”) between man and the earth, how capitalist accumulation breaks the eternal circle of renewal in nature and how mankind should merely try to pass the earth in a better state to the future generations that will live on the earth’s rent. Mathias Lievens is an assistant professor at KU Leuven and also the author of The Limits of the Green Economy. Gareth Dale, who authored a critique on Green Growth, writes in The Ecologist that Marx viewed humans as part of nature, not rulers of it and that an ecological Marx was also a sharp critic of the growth paradigm. Marx thought that capitalist agriculture “is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the workers, but of robbing the soil”. But a lot of media overlooked the fact that Marx was also an environmentalist avant la lettre.įew people know that Marx wrote about the right for all to have access to clean nature, air and beaches, about a sufficiency economy that avoids both depletion and waste and about global citizenship. When EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker defended Marx in the city where the economist and philosopher was born, state media in China were more than happy to cover it. Whether it is scorn or praise, everyone seemed to have an opinion on the ideas of Karl Marx, 200 years after he was born.
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