Title: RE: [PEN-L:34837] George Monbiot and David Harvey
this is an interesting article, but as Monbiot portrays it, Harvey's analysis is too mechanical and too pat.
The idea seems to be that a structural specific economic problem (under-use of industrial capacity) provokes the ruling
I thought it simply demystifies an expansionist process and pinpoints the real enemy as capital, that being a detrimental social relationship tying up all, and all emerging events in the present epoch of history. It sort of makes the life process of humanity one and the same and bridges differenc
Not only are these analyses serious in their own right. They mark a new
deepening in the democratic opposition to the present executors of the will
of finance capital, at the same time as the popular movement widens in its
extent and its contact with whole populations. The role of capital is no
Too much of a good thing
Underlying the US drive to war is a thirst to open up new opportunities for
surplus capital
George Monbiot
Tuesday February 18, 2003
The Guardian
We are a biological weapon. On Saturday the anti-war movement released some
70,000 tonnes of organic material on to the stre
