The Marx Memorial Library is running a series of lectures on Marxism and ecology. In this recording of his talk on 23 February Marx’s biographer David McLellan looks at Marx’s ecological thinking.
You can download the MP3 here.
David begins by pointing out that although we are in a major recession it is probable that capitalism will make a recovery in the next two or three years. In his view the major threat facing humanity is not a temporary economic crisis but the ecological disaster that capitalism is creating. Quite a bit of what he says will be familiar to readers of John Bellamy Foster.
The subsequent discussion, which isn’t on the recording did not show a grasp of the urgency of the situation that David conveyed and, although stimulating enough, was more academic than political with Althusser getting a particularly rough time though whether or not an exploration of the right translation of Stoffwechsel is critical others will have to judge.
Liam redux 
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