As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se." The food crisis is just starting.

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"The more bourgeois china is broken, the better fares the [fascist] Party, the more inextricably is the bourgeoisie tied to its protection racketeers and the more noiselessly it has to abdicate lever after lever of its economic power to the [fascist] Party." - Sohn-Rethel

Fascist forces begin as useful for liberal bourgeois rule in times of acute crisis. For a fascist state to emerge, these same forces must gain ahold of the state. Fascists are a bourgeois protection racket. Fascism is when the racket gets ahold of the books.

In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.

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And I would say the struggle for clean air in general is as important as the struggle for clean water

The struggle for clean indoor air is as important to disability justice as wheelchair accessibility. Those who wish to win the former need to learn from the latter's strategy. (Even as wheelchair accessibility still has a long way to go.) t.co/mYNz31JJzH

As we said in the last episode of Approaching Marxism, the next will look at Marx's theory of the metabolic rift. Our upcoming film, For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction, is our priority at the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for lots more content on the environment!

Check out our latest video on the debates between first and second wave ecosocialism on Karl Marx's view of nature! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...

Southern European grain harvests are predicted to be 60% lower than last year, 9.5% lower than the five year average. Agricultural breakdown is not a future scenario; it is already happening. Check out our video from last year for some background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYKFVXjQcU

"In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering." - Marx

"In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx