Marxism and the Climate Crisis
Historical Materialism Podcast
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The Return of the Dialectics of Nature
The dialectics of nature itself is obviously complex. The best way to understand it is that the particularly nineteenth century science, there was a very mechanistic, a scientific view arose. Human beings are part of nature. They we have to conform to nature's laws, but there are also emergent social laws that govern society and our lives as well. And so we can't approach humanity in a reductionist way, as though simply determined by natural factors. But neither are we free from it. So dialectics ofnature is concerned with these complex o relations of the natural world.
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