Engels on the Dialectical Ontology of Nature: Climate and the “Heavy Atlantic Rain Clouds” of Ireland

Slater, Eamonn

doi:10.1080/21598282.2021.1885881

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“…Less appreciated is the extent of attention devoted by Marx—but especially Engels—to the specific ecology of Ireland. In his unfinished and ultimately unpublished History of Ireland , we find the only detailed analysis conducted by either Marx or Engels of a specific ecological bioregion (Slater 2021). We are here reminded that the specific ecological conditions of Ireland are crucial to understanding the unfolding of Marx’s ecological thought.…”

Section: Uncovering the Corporeal Metabolic Rift In “Marx On Ireland”mentioning

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Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts

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Flaherty

2022

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Marx’s writings on Ireland are widely known, but less appreciated is their centrality to the formation of his ecological thought. We show how Marx’s understanding of metabolic rift evolved in line with his writings on colonial Ireland, revealing a concept more holistic than the “classic” metabolic rift of the soil. We recover and extend this concept to the corporeal metabolic rift, showing how both are inherent in Marx’s various writings on Ireland. Whilst the rift of the soil concerns the extraction and consumption of organic soil constituents, the corporeal rift describes processes of depopulation, and their effects on demography and family formation. These “rifted” processes are interconnected such that depleted soil impacts on the health of those who consume food grown on those “rifted” soils. We argue that the presence of these rifts substantiates Ireland’s inability to sustain itself both economically and organically, which determined its persistent post‐Famine underdevelopment.

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Section: Uncovering the Corporeal Metabolic Rift In “Marx On Ireland”mentioning

confidence: 98%

Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts

Slater

Flaherty

2022

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Engels on the Dialectical Ontology of Nature: Climate and the “Heavy Atlantic Rain Clouds” of Ireland

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Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts

Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts

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