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For Land: The Capitalist Mode of Production and the Sixth Mass Extinction Event

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

James from Prolekult joins Breht to discuss Prolekult's expansive new documentary, which you can find for free on YouTube, called "For Land: Capitalism as Extinction". Together, they discuss the documentary, political education, how the internal logic of capitalism produces environmental destruction, how the commodity form of labor is at the root of the eco-crisis, eco-marxism, the hyper-destructive role played by colonialism and imperialism, what the revolutionary socialist left needs to grapple with in regards to the crises of our time, and much more!

Check out For Land Pt. 1: Capitalism as Extinction

 

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio on today's episode we have

0:10.1

back on the show James from Proacult to talk about their newest documentary that

0:15.2

him and Lexi have put out called Four Land, Part One.

0:19.1

It's hopefully one in a three-part series of the connections between the capitalist social relations and the

0:26.6

commodity form of labor with the ongoing ecological global crisis that we're living in, of which climate change is merely one aspect.

0:35.9

This is a really important documentary and I think a really important educational process for

0:40.4

those of us interested in socialism and anti-capitalist critique in Marxism really

0:46.4

centering and anchoring our analysis of the ongoing environmental crisis not

0:52.8

not in you know the canards of overpopulation or the natural result of

0:58.5

development or actually it's all humans who have caused this chaos going back

1:02.3

thousands of years but specifically

1:04.2

in the social relations of capitalism itself and so this is a really

1:09.7

interesting educational discussion and I highly encourage people to go watch the

1:14.3

documentary which will be linked in the show notes support them on

1:17.5

Patreon so they can make parts two and three and really help this really important

1:22.1

Marxist educational outlet continue to do. and really

1:23.0

educational outlet continue to do, it's crucial,

1:26.0

and really deep diving work on so many things.

1:30.0

Their channel is full of really really thoughtful in-depth useful

1:36.0

content so go check it out support them in any way that you can etc including

1:41.2

and especially their Patreon which is the only way that they'll be able to really make part two and part three as we discuss at the end of this discussion and if you like what we do here you can join us on

1:50.8

Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash rev left radio we are

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