cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49192
Capitalism, Fossil Finance, and the Structural Logic of Ecological Breakdown.
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This is a hilarious attempt to push Marxism by tricking you into thinking you’re reading about the climate.
What makes it hilarious?
It’s like when I was in high school and some kids asked me to join their music club, but then it turned out to just be a cult trying to push Jesus.
How is this at all like that?
I don’t think you’d be willing to comprehend at this point.
I’m not OP but I think you’re in a different reality. The point is that our current capitalist system has ruined the environment, created the largest wealth disparities in modern history (maybe all of history), and brought on an irreversible climate change that will (and has already in some cases) kill millions and cause many trillions of damage.
So if this current system has caused all this, what other systems could we try to prevent future damage? I’m not saying pure Marxism is the solution, but we definitely need to weaken this hypercapitalist system that externalizes any long term environmental and climate damage for short term profit.
This is one of the most succinct statements in the article:
“Under capitalism ecological limits are treated as costs that can be displaced onto communities, future generations, and the atmosphere itself.”
You have provided no actual substance to this discussion other than a vague attempt at a put down by lazily connecting it to an unrelated concept, don’t expect me to take anything meaningful away from it.
I don’t have to please you to make a point. I don’t need your acceptance, or your understanding. I’m not even talking to you directly. I don’t care about you at all.