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DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the Critical Studies of Society hosts Raj Sahani 
 presenting "Marx's ecology", a discussion of Ralph Bellamy Foster 
 book:\nEver since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," published in the 
 mid-20th century, launched the environmental movement in the United States 
 and beyond, it is the "Green" movement that has defined what ecological 
 preservation is, based on idealism and within the parameters of Global 
 Capital. The USSR and China, the two giant countries where alternative 
 non-capitalist, at least partially socialist revolutions brought big 
 changes in the early to mid-twentieth century, failed to evolve healthy 
 human-nature relations (despite a good beginning in the USSR in 1920s). 
 Marx has been accused of being 'Promethean' in regards to production, one 
 who did not give importance to planetary ecology by his detractors and even 
 some of his supporters agree, saying Marx did not deal with the limits in 
 nature. Tracing the evolution of materialist philosophy from Epicurus' 
 ancient materialism to Feuerbach's contemplative materialism, the revolt of 
 the Frankfurt school, to development of the materialist approach in science 
 from the 18th thru 20th centuries and its struggles against religion and 
 idealist philosophy in the conception of nature, Bellamy Foster argues that 
 Marx's practical, materialist philosophy integrates both harmonious social 
 as well as healthy human-nature relations in his concept of Communism: "A 
 Society of Associated Producers."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/21/18455117.php
SUMMARY:Marx's Ecology -- A discussion of Ralph Bellamy Foster's book
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library at 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, (just north of 
 Alcatraz).  Wheelchair accessible. Free event.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/21/18455117.php
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