On Reactionary Environmentalism

Us revolutionaries, us Marxists must combat the ways in which capitalism mystifies the natural world and our relation to it. With dialectical materialism we see that there is no dichotomy between civilization and nature. Nature is not something to be conquered, nor is it something humans must “return to”, or that should reclaim us at the cost of basic security and livelihood for millions or billions of the most vulnerable people. There is no human production without the natural land it must occur on, and we are at a point where the way we produce things directly affects the environmental trajectory of the entire planet. We must understand the relationship between civilization and nature as a dialectical one, and dismantle the structures of capitalist imperialism so that we can overcome our alienation as workers, with the planet we all live on, produce on, and need to survive.