Like with Marx and environmentalism, there isn't a formalised analysis so much as there is a blueprint because he lived before the field developed. Labour is a universal metabolic process, labour creates value, nature's value is that of the entire world and our survival so it's socially positive and countering an element of alienation, so I don't have any conflict between my Marxism and my modern environmentalism. Rev Left Radio did a great episode about alienation manifesting as drug addiction and more broadly our opioid epidemic because all of those forms of alienation deprive you from your basic needs. Marx predated the sciences that defined those needs and the conditions that alienate us from those needs in modern ways, but there's self-help value in understanding your material and social relationship to society/the planet and how that creates most of the things we're dealing with. It's that 19th century process of class consciousness mixed with the modern concept of self-actualisation.
Like with Marx and environmentalism, there isn't a formalised analysis so much as there is a blueprint because he lived before the field developed. Labour is a universal metabolic process, labour creates value, nature's value is that of the entire world and our survival so it's socially positive and countering an element of alienation, so I don't have any conflict between my Marxism and my modern environmentalism. Rev Left Radio did a great episode about alienation manifesting as drug addiction and more broadly our opioid epidemic because all of those forms of alienation deprive you from your basic needs. Marx predated the sciences that defined those needs and the conditions that alienate us from those needs in modern ways, but there's self-help value in understanding your material and social relationship to society/the planet and how that creates most of the things we're dealing with. It's that 19th century process of class consciousness mixed with the modern concept of self-actualisation.