[OPE-L:6537] Re: * poll: who has advanced political economy since Marx?

From: glevy@pop-b.pratt.edu
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 07:58:35 EST


Hi Chris. Thanks for your [6335]. A (really) brief question:

>> * Also: is there *any* major part of Marx's theory that the
>>   development of subsequent thought shows needs to be
>>   modified or rejected?
> marx completely failed to grasp the ecological problematic. All 
> the  relevant stuff attributes the problem to capital - he does 
> not see the use value side is itself an issue. So all the stuff 
> in the Marx/green debate is relevant. The implications for 'a 
> society of abundance' and what presupposes that is obvious.

Have you read [fellow OPE-Ler] Paul Brukett's _Marx and Nature: 
A Red and Green Perspective_ [NY, St. Martin's Press, 1999; ISBN
0-312-21940-7]?

In solidarity, Jerry



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