Re: [Marxism] The Prophet Misarmed: Trotsky, Ecology and Sustainability

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

Sorry for the confusion. 
 
The sentence in question is from this paragraph: 
 
"Humanity has no spontaneous craving for mayonnaise, coffee, ice cream or  
90% of the commodity form of foodstuff. We are not offered food as an  
abstraction but rather "the commodity form of foodstuff." Coffee does not just  
"come 
into existence" as an abstract product, but rather as a commodity to  intensify 
the exploitation of labor." << 
 

I acknowledge the confusion and slipshodness in the fist sentence and  agree 
that spontaneous should be replaced with the word "innate." Further, the  word 
humanity should be replaced with "biological man/women". 
 
The whole paragraph can be rewritten to read: 
 
"Biological man/women - as a metabolic process, has no innate or  spontaneous 
craving for mayonnaise, coffee, ice cream or 90% of the commodity  form of 
foodstuff offered by the bourgeois power. Further, as a metabolic  process our 
species innate need as craving is for water, nitrates, and  substances found 
primarily in fruits (âorganic moleculesâ) or properties that  have been 
transmigrated by vegetation, i.e.,  âmovedâ from the inorganic to  the 
organic. 
Coffee does not just "come into existence" as an abstract product,  but rather 
as 
a commodity to intensify the exploitation of labor. The bourgeois  commodity 
form of foodstuff is not sustainable." 
 
Sorry for the confusion. 
 
Will try harder and more thoughtful. 
 

WL. 
 
 
 
 
 

In a message dated 3/14/2009 6:09:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_nmgoro@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx)  writes: 
2009/3/14 <_Waistline2@xxxxxxxx (mailto:Waistline2@xxxxxxx) >: In a message 
dated  3/13/2009 10:46:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, _nmgoro@xxxxxxxxxx 
(mailto:nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx)  writes: 
 
Humanity has no spontaneous craving for anything. That is what makes it  
humanity. 
 
Period. 
 

Reply 
 
Clarify please. 
 
If an epigram is not clear in itself, either it is a bad epigram, or it has  
a bad reader. 
 
I am sure you will opt for the second option. If so, I will adopt the  first. 
 
Or vice versa, of course...
 
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