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"Before I read this book, I was half-tempted to order a set of Santayana's complete works, in part because Sprigge was interested in him. By the time I was halfway through, I thought maybe "The Life of Reason" would be enough (mainly because I find th"
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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet:
"Important but frustrating. The core line of argument that the climate movement needs a focus on the role of capitalist power in production in producing the crisis and a strategy focused on building worker power in strategic sectors is important. The "
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| This is a fantasy novel about a woman named Hope, whom no one can remember — literally — unless she is physically in their presence, and for a few minutes afterward. It is an intriguing and well developed idea. The only negative (for me) is that ther ...more | |
"I am a dark green environmentalist or ecocentrist, but this book did not do it for me. The author's reticences about science and rationality grated against my deepest convictions, his meta-ethics seemed retrofitted for his politics (something I had a"
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| OK: if you’re a Marxist or interested in Marxism, or if you’re interested in degrowth, definitely take a look at this book. I admire Kohei Saito for his books on Marx—really innovative new research into recently uncovered writings of Marx which reall ...more | |
“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.”
― Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
― Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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