Economics, Socialism and Ecology: A Critical Outline--Part 1 By Kamran Nayeri, Philosophers for Change, July 16, 2013
Introduction The economy appears as the religion of modern times. As John Maynard Keynes asserted, it seem as if the world is ruled by little else than economics. Following Marx, I will argue that economics is a pseudo (ideologically driven) science that was originated with the rise of the capitalist mode of production and will wither away with its downfall. I will cite some key junctures in the evolution of economics from classical political economy to the neoclassical and Keynesian economics to illustrate this claim. I will also argue that Marx’s critique of political economy (“economics” of his time) was not to improve but transcend it and the capitalist system it aims to explain and sustain. Marx’s praxis represented an intellectual and political paradigmatic shift from a focus on Homo economicus to the development of socialist women and men. In Part Two, I will consider the ecological socialist paradigm. I will argue that ecological crisis call for nothing short of a radical ecological socialist transformation. However, this transformation will require not just a radical change in social relations of production but also a revolution in 10,000 year old anthropocentric culture in favor of a radical ecocentric and universe-centric worldview. full: http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2013/07/1101-economics-socialism-and-ecology_18.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
