Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Bill Burgess
At 08:07 AM 28/06/00 -0400, Louis wrote: >Can the capitalist system resolve these [ecological] problems? This is a >theoretical >question that has challenged a wide variety of thinkers. David Harvey's new >book "Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference" argues that it can. Harvey does

Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Mine: >Lou, I agree with the rest of your post. I should, however, open a small >paranthesis that I don't frankly think that comrade Mark has Marx's >critique of Malthus in his mind when he defends Bartlett, since Bartlett, >is not a Marxist. The problem is that most, if not all, of the empirica

Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Louis Proyect wrote: >> Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once >> again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer >> PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and >> Finance", Lou, I agree with the rest o

Re: Malthus revisited

2000-06-27 Thread Sam Pawlett
Louis Proyect wrote: > > Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once > again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer > PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and > Finance", specifically chapter two on "Mar

Malthus revisited

2000-06-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", specifically chapter two on "Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Nat