Contribution to discussion: The ecological insights of Marx and Engels
Printed in the first Discusssion Bulletin on ecology, November 2023 "Everything affects and everything is affected by every other thing, and it is mostly because the manifold motion and interaction is forgotten that our natural scientists are prevented from gaining a clear insight into the simplest things" (p178, Dialectics of Nature , F. Engels) In the preface to Capital volume 1 Marx states his purpose is to "reveal the economic law of motion of modern society" and explain “the development of the economic formation of society …as a process of natural history” (p92, Capital vol 1). There is...