By Colin A.M. Duncan
ISBN-10: 0773513639
ISBN-13: 9780773513631
Bridging the space among political economic system and ecology, this paintings deals a serious evaluate of the historical past of capitalism and socialism on the subject of agriculture. it truly is argued within the booklet that the real position of agriculture has been neglected over the last centuries and needs to be restored to a valuable position in society. utilizing ecological, ancient, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, the argues that the complete venture of constructing a idea of political economic climate has been heavily sidetracked via industrialism. utilizing England as a case learn he indicates that the connection among modernity and agriculture don't need to be so uncomfortable and indicates ways that the unique socialist undertaking will be rejuvenated to make it either extra possible and extra beautiful. The booklet concludes that no sustainable human destiny should be conceived until and till the centrality of agriculture is correctly famous and new monetary associations are constructed that would motivate humans to maintain their landscapes. This publication is meant for college kids of political economic system and ecology.
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Before concluding this introductory discussion I here avow my hope that, once they have become better informed on environmental matters, socialists of all stripes (and perhaps other people as well) will opt to set up a humanly sustainable future, not just a more humane brief epilogue for humankind. xn Since all the ecological arguments rehearsed in what follows have apparently never before been systematically advanced within a context of social criticism informed by social theory and concrete historical knowledge, dialogue within and without the socialist tradition has been frustrated.
SECTION 3 THE E N V I R O N M E N T A L IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRY AND OUR LIVING E N V I R O N M E N T ' S CAPACITY F O R R E S P O N S E Any explanation of the environmental implications inherent in industrialism requires some prior conceptual, specifically historicosociological, discussion inasmuch as the family of terms around the word "industry" comprises so many unconnected meanings, some leading in an entirely technical, others a purely social, direction. It is quite senseless with such "keywords"34 to try to resolve the ambiguities in such a way that will satisfy all conceivable sociological purposes.
Concern for the quality of human life above all could become in fact (and in logic) quite beside the point. In criticizing Locke and Marx here the real possibility of causing irretrievable damage to nature (from the point of view of Homo sapiens, if not of microbes) has been alluded to several times, but not yet argued for. In order to begin building constructively on this critique of Locke and Marx it is necessary first to lay out a series of ecological arguments in a historically informed way.