Power, Profit, and Prometheanism, Part II
Superexploitation in the Web of Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12433857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J W Moore (0000-0002-7237-9895, Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 558-582 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1225 |
| OpenAlex | W4386065165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
everyday production of subsistence meshes with the intergenerational production of "fresh life in procreation [:] social in the sense that it denotes the co-operation of several individuals, no matter under what conditions, in what manner and to what end" (Marx and Engels 2010: 43; see esp. Seccombe 1992). This is a necessary insight as we envision socialist reconstruction in the wake of capitalogenic ecocide. Cooperation is a "productive force" (Marx and Engels 2010: 43; see O'Connor 1998). As a "source of wealth" and as historical man's "inorganic body," extra-human webs of life are internal to the proletarian struggle to de-alienate the relations of "the soil" and "the worker" (see respectively, Put simply, the class struggle is a multispecies affair through which "the soil" and "the worker" interpenetrate. Proletarian emancipation and biotarian liberation are two moments in the journey towards the communist horizon This is not for some warm-and-fuzzy ecocentric reason. No indeed! The socialist development of the productive forces can only be realized through such cooperation. 2 Extra-human life is not outside but immanent to the cooperative potentialities that may be awakened by the revolutionary struggles of the "associated producers" (and reproducers) (Marx 1977(Marx : 283, 1981: 959): 959). A praxis of biotarian/proletarian unity would advance a Red Prometheanism, not as a bourgeois logic of domination but as the spark of a really revolutionary road-one that develops the productive forces through the liberation of life. "The creatures too must become free" (Thomas Mnzer quoted in Marx 1978a: 51; Moore 2018b; Salvage Collective 2021)
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