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By far the most profound and stubbornly persistent of the many misconceptions that have prevented a clear and rational understanding of one of history’s most important thinkers is of Marx’s attitude toward nature and the environment. It has long been held that, if he devoted any thought to it at all, Marx ruthlessly subordinated environmental concerns to his vision of humanity’s inevitable economic progress. The truth of the matter, that the relationship between humans and nature was Marx’s one core concern from the very inception of his thought and remained so throughout his long career, is barely grasped even by his most passionate proponents.
In this four week workshop, you will be introduced to a Marx you may never have known existed. With the use of visuals, facilitated discussion and carefully selected excerpts from the works by Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx and Engels that form the foundation of Marx’s science—what we would today call an ecology—you will gain rare new insight, not only on history’s most infamous thinker, but also on the roots of the ecological crisis that grips the earth to this day.
Supplemental readings are entirely optional and absolutely no prior exposure to the subject matter is necessary.
