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I’ m grateful to Stuart Jordan for alerting comrades to the RS21 pamphlet on ecology ( Solidarity 619 ). We certainly should evaluate what the rest of the revolutionary left says on these important matters. I’ve not read the RS21 pamphlet, so I trust Stuart’s criticisms are warranted. However I think he is far too casual about Marx and Engels, the founders of our tradition and where our assessments often begin. There is nothing “so-called” about Marxist metabolism. For two decades this term has been used as shorthand for Marx’s approach to ecological questions in his mature political economy...