Source: libcom.org; First Published: as "Kapitalismus und Ökologie: Vom Untergang des Kapitals zum Untergang der Welt", Jahrbuch Arbeiterbewegung 4, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main, 1976; Translated: by Paul Mattick Jr.; Transcribed: by Zdravko Saveski, for marxists.org 2020.
The historical character of nature follows from the Second Law of thermodynamics, discovered more than a hundred years ago by Carnot and Clausius, spelling an increase in entropy ending in heat death. Our earthly life depends on the continuous supply of energy from solar radiation, which decreases with increasing entropy, however slowly. The period of time involved is indefinite from the human point of view, too gigantic to be taken into practical conside... (From: Marxists.org.)
Published: in International Council Correspondence Vol. 1, no.4, January 1935, pp 5-15. Source: Antonie Pannekoek Archives Transcribed: by Graham Dyer
I
The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained
proportions comparable only with those of the crisis which brought it forth. In
all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which
stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on
principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its
champions both in the bourgeois and ‘socialist’ camps. While the first group
sees in the planning tendencies a vague intimation of an harmonious capitalism,
the latter hopes for a g... (From: Marxists.org.)
Capitalism has responded in a variety of ways to the criticisms and opposition of Greens, both reformist and radical. This response has fallen into two categories: the velvet glove (capitalism is and can be green) and the iron fist (jailing, physical intimidation and the murder of green activists).
Many greens have become part of the problem: capitalism, rather than the solution: green anarchist communism. This is because their lack of radical class analysis leads them to believe that capitalism can be reformed and made green through strategies such as technological fixes e.g. electronic cars, green consumerism and the big myth of green/sustainable growth. More radical greens are prey to other theoretical cul-de-sacs such as spirituality o... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
With the crisis in the finance markets rumbling on, it is hard to make any comments on it as it is sure to become redundant. Its roots lie in the nature of financial capital, in its tendency to generate bubbles as resources are poured into specific markets in an attempt to make money. Before the housing bubble, it was dot.com. Before dot.com, it was the Savings & Loans fiasco…
The creation of such bubbles is just as regular as the denials that a bubble exists. Seeking profits, banks create credit and financial institutions speculate. The margins for error decrease as capital accumulates while rising inequality makes aggregate demand teeter on the edge. Rising debt cannot cover the repayments, new buyers cannot enter the ma... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
(Front an Italian Correspondent).
The commercial crisis by which Italy is at the present time afflicted, is no doubt, referable in particular cases to particular causes, but it has been chiefly brought about by a revolution in economical ways and means.
Only a few years ago the foreign and even the inter-provincial trade of Italy was comparatively, insignificant. Products of the soil were consumed on the spot; and the surplus merely was sold to provide for necessaries. Agriculture and manufactures alike took the mark of the locality, every part of the country showing its own particular taste. Flax. cotton, wool, silk and other manufactures, were established in the villages, and provided the peasants with good and durable commodities, ... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
Glossary
Capitalism: An economic and political system based on the exploitation of those forced to sell their labor to survive. In this system, trade, industry and major decisions which affect the environment are made by private owners who are driven by profit.
Green capitalism: As above but with more solar panels.
Neoliberalism: A political system of free markets, privatization of once communal resources and minimal regulations exploiting workers or the environment.
Scientific consensus: An agreement among the majority of experts in a field about a scientific process. Over 97% of climate scientists agree humans are causing climate change.
Holistic: An approach which assumes parts of a system are intimately interconnected and must be... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Poke an anarchist whose project involves an exchange of money for goods, and chances are you will have to duck to avoid the stream of sticky, apologetic defensiveness.
“If we don’t charge, how do you expect us to provide you with this stuff and still sustain ourselves?”
“What should we do?”
“It’s classist to think that people can do this for free...”
And so on.
While the apologies and excuses do acknowledge that something contradictory and complicated is happening, the rationales tend to fall back into the same old purity reasoning, not much more engaged than disingenuous complaints about Zerzan’s use of a typewriter.
These simplistic responses d... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Maybe it was desperation that led the INNSE workers in Milan to climb up onto a crane in an attempt to avoid the closure of their company and the sale of its equipment. Maybe it was desperation that also drove the LAMSE workers in Melfi and the CNH workers in Imola to do the same thing, or the Alcatel workers in Battipaglia who locked themselves into their factory and surrounded themselves with tanks of petrol.
Maybe it was desperation that forced these workers to put their own lives at risk.
But what kind of misery drove 23 France Telecom employes to commit suicide when they discovered they had lost their jobs, or drove the 32-year-old man from the Chloride factory in Bologna to hang himself on 24th July 2009 because he had been made red... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
The American people, and especially the working class, do not seem to realize the importance of and the class interest involved in the arrest of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. If these, our brothers in labor’s cause, are to be saved from the gallows, there must be a tremendous amount of agitation carried on. Money must be raised, and lots of it, for their defense. The working class must be made aware of the long fight between the Mine Owners’ Association and the Western Federation of Miners, and shown the connection between this struggle and these arrests.
Anarchists cannot afford to be backward in this matter. Many of us have passed through the awful ordeal and know what anguish it is to those men and their families. If t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Something this pandemic has revealed is just what we do and don’t need. Down here where I live in Kent, Fenwicks (a luxury department store in Canterbury), as well as most of the shops, are closed. Poor people can’t usually afford to buy things from places like Fenwicks anyway, but it just shows that we don’t need these luxury places and their goods.
What we do need are essential goods like food (particularly food that is nutritious and might boost our immune systems) and other useful products that we use in our day to day lives, as well as medication, if we rely upon it.
We need infrasture (such as decent healthcare) and goods, but do we really need expensive luxuries? Especially lines and lines of different... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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