Vision and strategy: Questioning the subsistence perspective

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 38-43

  Wallis, Victor ^a  

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CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC THEORY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 33751160550     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: 15483290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455750601004475     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Maria Mies and Joel Kovel, "An Interview with Maria Mies, January 18, 2004, Mumbai, India" Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2004, pp. 41-50.
2. There is a vast critical literature on this topic. My own approach stresses the high proportion of waste within the totality of capitalist production: Victor Wallis, "Toward Ecological Socialism," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2001, pp. 127-45.
3. The crucial role of the witch-hunts is explored in Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New York: Autonomedia, 2004).
4. The physical toll is described at length in Marx's Capital, Vol. I, Ch. 25, Sec. 5; the spiritual toll is highlighted in Marx's discussion of alienated labor in the 1844 Manuscripts; Engels's references to primitive communism appear in The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State.
5. See Capital, Vol. I, Ch. 15, Sec. 5. Marx's critical approach here belies Mies' assertion [in "'War is the Father of All Things' (Heraclitus) 'But Nature is the Mother of Life' (Claudia von Werlhof, " Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2006, p. 32] that he considered technology "value- and system-free."
6. Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics (London: Zed Books & New York: St Martin's, 1997), p. 111, refers to electricity as a "destructive technology."
7. For an initial look at such issues, see Victor Wallis, "Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006, pp. 81-97.
8. See Paul Burkett, "Marx's Vision of Sustainable Human Development," Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 5, 2005, pp. 34-62.
9. See my exchange with James O'Connor on this question, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1997, pp. 51-56.
10. See Mike Davis, "The Radical Politics of Shade," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1997, pp. 35-39.
11. Mies, 2006, op cit., p. 30.
12. For a useful introductory overview, see eight "snapshots of the warming" in Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point (New York: Basic Books, 2004).
13. Mies and Kovel, 2004, op. cit., p. 50.
14. CNS has taken the lead in this effort; see also Michael Löwy (ed.), Ecologie et Socialisme (Paris: Syllepse, 2005)
15. and Paul Burkett, "Ecology and Marx's Vision of Communism," Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2003, pp. 41-72.
16. See Gerardo Rénique (ed.), The Reawakening of Revolution in Latin America, special issue of Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2005.