Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 11:49:02 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-I: James Heartfield versus the trees and the flowers and James Heartfield wrote: >When I was last in the Adirondacks I >must say I was struck by the beauty of forests there, and the impressive >wooden buildings - truly a testament to man's ability to master nature. "Man" mastering nature? How undialectical. There is nature within man, and woman too; we are part of it, and it part of us. The urge to dominate it produces strange and alienating effects. And speaking of humans "dominating" external non-human nature is of a piece with capitalists dominating labor - a repellent form of exploitation that Marxists should fight to end, not perpetuate or apologize for. As Marx said of capitalist agriculture, it "is a progress in the art, not only of robing the worker, but of robbing the soil; all progres in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time is a progress towards ruining the more lasting sources of that fertility." We need partnership with nature, not domination. Doug --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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