On Social Needs

In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 8, S. 56-58

Abstract

Uses Marxist definitions of commodity, use value, & exchange value to counter Victor Wallis's (1997) contention that capitalist requirements have supplanted basic human needs at the dire cost of the environment. It is implied that Wallis's calls for less energy-intensive forms of production, transportation, & consumption are too simplistic. Marxist value theories illustrate how labor, socioeconomic & cultural innovations, social needs, & natural resource uses are intrinsically intertwined & resist separate categorization. D. Bajo