• 14 The concept was initially referred to in various different ways, and the expression of an "accumulation" at the origin of capitalism began to appear with Adam Smith. (wikipedia.org)
  • In disinterring the origins of capital, Marx felt the need to dispel what he felt were religious myths and fairy tales about the origins of capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, the notion of "natural capital" was viewed in terms of the stock of physical properties and natural-material use values constituting real wealth and was seen as opposed to the growing "sense of capitalism" as a system of mere exchange value or cash nexus. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The first is the unity of capitalism's social functioning throughout all its development - from merchant and usury capital to industrial capitalism. (libcom.org)
  • First, he sees the movements of capitalist society and of capital as an evolution of the social relations of production, and, secondly, he uses this basis in order to reject the various reactionary Utopias that flourished spontaneously in Russia at the end of the 19th century in response to the impetuous development of capitalism. (libcom.org)
  • 8] Lenin is very insistent in his arguments against the 'sentimental critique' of capitalism, and on his stress on capital's historical necessity and progressiveness, but his analysis of the process of socialization induced by capitalist development against the 'disruption' of the artisan.peasant economy (i.e. of capital in its mercantile' stage) remains unilateral and limited. (libcom.org)
  • In the process he butchers the tools Marx developed for understanding the dynamics of capitalism. (isj.org.uk)
  • Speaking endlessly of the "law of value" and the centrality of labour productivity, Moore nevertheless replaces the role Marx assigned human labour as the source of all value in the dynamics of capitalism with a notion that the energy and fertility of non-human nature is what drives economic growth and decline. (isj.org.uk)
  • This, very often subtle, break with Marx is embodied in Moore's central conception of capitalism as a "Cheap Nature Project", 2 a system reliant on the "Four Cheaps" (labour, food, energy and raw materials). (isj.org.uk)
  • Moore never makes an argument against exploited human labour as the source of all value in capitalism, and yet use values continue to creep into his account of both how capitalists accumulate and how their system booms and busts. (isj.org.uk)
  • I argue that sustainability (or a healthy environment) can be seen as an "ecological social wage" under capitalism and has to be fought for as a part of a larger fight against the various logics of capitalism, such as endless accumulation, and against the system as a whole. (socialistproject.ca)
  • The threat to sustainability under capitalism does not come from the fact that there are too many people on earth, nor from the fact that some erstwhile poor countries are consuming more things to live a slightly better life, nor indeed from human beings' productive activity as such (e.g. industrialization), although all these facts do involve increased extraction of resources from nature. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Capitalism is the stage in the development of human society characterised by class monopoly of the means of production, with wage-labour and commodity-production. (worldsocialism.org)
  • Historically an increasingly complex division of labor is closely associated with the growth of total output and trade, the rise of capitalism , and of the complexity of industrial processes. (wikiquote.org)
  • In Marxian economics and preceding theories, the problem of primitive accumulation (also called previous accumulation, prior accumulation, or original accumulation) of capital concerns the origin of capital and therefore how class distinctions between possessors and non-possessors came to be. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marx viewed the colonization of the Americas, the African slave trade, and the events surrounding the First Opium War and Second Opium War as important instances of primitive accumulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • 14 In The German Ideology and in volume 3 of Capital, Marx discusses how primitive accumulation alienates humans from nature. (wikipedia.org)
  • James Steuart, with his 1767 work, is considered by some scholars to be the greatest classical theorist of primitive accumulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marx wrote: This primitive accumulation plays in political economy about the same part as original sin in theology. (wikipedia.org)
  • These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Those arguments were constructed during the critical period of primitive accumulation, and as a result, Luxemburg considered the context for land and natural resource dispossession, migrant labor, and ethno-patriarchal rule. (cadtm.org)
  • In the process, Luxemburg described and also theorized how settler colonialism's primitive accumulation was not a once-off affliction. (cadtm.org)
  • Karl Marx rejected such accounts as 'insipid childishness' for their omission of the role of violence, war, enslavement, and conquest in the historical accumulation of land and wealth. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to develop a critical analysis of the current capitalist expropriation of world ecology, it is necessary to explore the concept of natural capital in the work of Marx and other early radical critics within classical political economy. (monthlyreview.org)
  • 6 Bourgeois ideology and economics may wish coal could be turned into capital, but Marx showed that the only part of capitalist production that can increase the size of capital is exploited human labour. (isj.org.uk)
  • Marx was very aware that "nature really matters", but it matters and interacts with capitalist commodity production in different ways from those proposed by Moore. (isj.org.uk)
  • Today, over a hundred years after the publication of the first volume of Capital, the interest in the ideas of Karl Marx is wider than ever. (worldsocialism.org)
  • In capitalist society, Marx said, wealth takes the form of an immense accumulation of commodities. (worldsocialism.org)
  • In 1913, Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital offered a unique contribution to the Marxist theory of imperialism partly because she drew on primary accounts of Africa's super-exploitation, with nuanced attention to the social formation emerging in South Africa. (cadtm.org)
  • Marxism, they maintained, had not only failed to explain the Holocaust, its very occurrence called into question the Marxist conception that socialism arose out of fundamental historical and economic processes. (wsws.org)
  • An analysis based on Marxist thinking sheds light on what moved that process. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Rubbing Marx's concept of metabolism with his concept of reproduction, one can say this: in producing the things that we need, we use up the means of production, including those that come, more or less, directly from nature , and these means of production must be replenished in terms of their quantity and quality. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Adam Smith's account of primitive-original accumulation depicted a peaceful process in which some workers laboured more diligently than others and gradually built up wealth, eventually leaving the less diligent workers to accept living wages for their labour. (wikipedia.org)
  • not only the product of labour but labour itself, i.e. human labour power, assumes the form of a commodity' [2] Lenin thus lays a sound foundation for his polemic with the Populists (the Narodniks). (libcom.org)
  • Only by interpreting 'production' in the former sense can one separate 'distribution' from it, and when that is done, the 'department' of production does not contain the categories of historically determined forms of social economy, but categories that relate to the labour process in general: usually such empty banalities merely serve later to obscure historical and social conditions. (libcom.org)
  • 2 That is, on the basis of manual and mental labour, we must interact with nature from which we get raw materials and energy and in which we dump waste products. (socialistproject.ca)
  • For example, if we cut trees and pollute air to produce wealth, a part of the produced wealth - the combined product of labour and nature - has to be utilized to replenish the trees and to clean the air. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Class inequality refers to the inequality in the control over society's productive resources, including those that come directly from nature (farm land, water, minerals, etc.), and consequent class exploitation (appropriation of surplus product or surplus labour, by the class that controls the means of production from the class that does not). (socialistproject.ca)
  • Wealth is anything useful produced by human labour from materials found in nature. (worldsocialism.org)
  • As articles of wealth all commodities share two characteristics: they are useful and they are products of human labour. (worldsocialism.org)
  • My intention here is not of course to recount Pontecorvo's entire extraordinary film, but to draw out some important principles from this allegory that will help us to understand capitalism's relation to nature. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Increasingly, however, economies are relying on a stock of intangible assets, such as patents or computer programs and applications, but also general know-how and business processes, human capital, and networks of relationships with customers or suppliers. (chicagofed.org)
  • The continuing roll out of platform technology is bringing many applications together to support better, and in many cases new, business processes. (beagleresearch.com)
  • This nineteenth-century notion of "natural capital," conceived in physical, use-value terms, was to be revived in the 1970s and '80s as part of an emerging ecological critique. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In more recent decades, however, mainstream neoclassical economics (sometimes with the help of ecological economists), together with corporate finance, have completely separated the concept of natural capital from its original use-value-based critique, the memory of which has long receded, conceiving natural capital instead entirely in exchange-value terms, as just another form of financialized capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Humanity, therefore, is facing issues of ecological survival on two levels: (1) a still reversible but rapidly worsening Earth System crisis, threatening to undermine civilization as a whole and make the planet uninhabitable for the human species, and (2) accelerating extreme weather and other ecological disasters associated with climate change that are now unavoidable in the coming decades, affecting localities and regions throughout the globe. (transcend.org)
  • a world where all that one has seems to come from economic activity and not from the ecological processes which underlie and sustain all living existence. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • This is the capital that was invested in the immense enterprise of biological evolution. (ac.be)
  • They speak to the changing dynamics of capitalist accumulation, labor force, and subject formation while unsettling the visibility/invisibility dichotomy. (ici-berlin.org)
  • Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in fewer hands? (corkfilmcentre.com)
  • It is hardly surprising in this context that the first references to "natural capital" and to the "earth's capital stock" arose in this same period in the work of radical and socialist political economists, who sought to defend nature and the commons against the intrusions of the market. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Instead it was, and remains , a systematic way to arrange capitalist and non-capitalist relations to the benefit of the former, as a means of addressing internal contradictions within the accumulation process, albeit in a context of growing resistance. (cadtm.org)
  • Within the context of the Middle East as a setting for both high-tech, post-oil futures and the colonial, imperial violence of petro-politics, both allegories converge to highlight the dialectical nature of computational capital as a matter of mediation between different realms and scales, and thus as a totalizing force. (ici-berlin.org)
  • If the answer is yes, then human survival is indeed at stake in the environmental crisis. (transcend.org)
  • No matter what popular opinion asks us to believe, technology will be crucial for human survival. (libcom.org)
  • The first stage consisted of the long phase of human survival through the use of the earth's energy income . (ac.be)
  • As the IEG told its investors, while the asset value of the world economy is $512 trillion, the asset value of the earth's natural capital is estimated at $4 quadrillion ($4,000 trillion), all potentially for the taking. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The ecology of the earth stabilized following the total freezing of the earth's surface 700 or 800 million years ago, stabilized following the great Permian extinction and will stabilize after the human industrial extinction to which we presently contribute. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Together these developments represent a sea change in the capitalization of nature, such that all natural processes that involve ecosystem services to the economy are now increasingly seen to be subject to exchange on the market for profit-all in the name of conservation and climate change. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But, they all employ the power of the state, the concentrated and organized force of society, to hasten, hot-house fashion, the process of transformation of the feudal mode of production into the capitalist mode, and to shorten the transition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like Sismondi, the Populists separate consumption from production claiming that production depends on natural laws, while consumption is determined by distribution, which in turn depends on human will. (libcom.org)
  • And vice versa, if production relations remain unexplained (for example if the process of production of the aggregate social capital is not understood) all arguments about consumption and distribution turn into banalities, or innocent, romantic wishes. (libcom.org)
  • Nature, especially transformed nature, is a part of the means of production. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Such an absolute catastrophe for civilization and the human species as a whole is still avoidable with a revolutionary-scale reconstitution of the current system of production, consumption, and energy usage, though the time in which to act is rapidly running out. (transcend.org)
  • Nevertheless, while it is still possible to avoid irreversible climate change through a massive transformation in the mode of production, it is no longer feasible to circumvent accelerating environmental disasters in the present century on a scale never seen before in human history, endangering the lives and living conditions of billions of people. (transcend.org)
  • To start, investment is defined as the accumulation of assets that can be used for future production or consumption. (chicagofed.org)
  • First, Luxemburg's Accumulation gives us the basic tools to work through why there is a "ceaseless flow of capital from one branch of production to another, and finally in the periodic and cyclical swings of reproduction between overproduction and crisis" (2003, 76). (cadtm.org)
  • Teller envisions a new "New Atlantis" with a priesthood of highly "skilled" scientist-technicians surrounded by an army of "craftsmen" who monitor, develop, and control the automated production processes with computer networks. (libcom.org)
  • [ 4 ] This possible role of bilirubin in early protection against oxidative injury, coupled with identification of multiple neonatal mechanisms to preserve and potentiate bilirubin production, has led to speculation about an as-yet-unrecognized beneficial role for bilirubin in the human neonate. (medscape.com)
  • Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • As Karl Polanyi wrote in The Great Transformation , "What we call land is an element of nature inextricably interwoven with man's institutions. (monthlyreview.org)
  • For all the different tasks that were present at that project there arose different languages which led to the disintegration of the unity of the human race. (wikiquote.org)
  • Naturally, Lenin adopts the Marxian analysis of accumulation. (libcom.org)
  • It has existed for hundreds of years and still occurs naturally in both animals and humans in many parts of the world, including Asia, southern Europe, sub-Sahelian Africa and parts of Australia. (who.int)
  • But the nature of investment has evolved over time: "Intangible assets"-such as intellectual property or software-play an increasingly important role in the modern economy. (chicagofed.org)
  • Where the metaphysical nature of gifting operates in organic time, its transactional nature operates in the same conventional industrial time that renders interest, amortization, and depreciation schedules. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • After all, circulation in space is harder to measure than accumulation over time. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The necessary tools for considering the overall picture of the flow and degradation of energy in human society--the metabolism of the social organism, its primary function of self-maintenance--have been available for only a short time. (ac.be)
  • What's most important is that the system, by generating a unique process for each customer, remains authentic to the situation. (beagleresearch.com)
  • It founded a system of industry by which labor and capital were identified [ sic ] in interest. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Other in vitro studies have shown bilirubin to have more antioxidant capability than vitamin E, which is commonly assumed to be the most potent antioxidant in the human system. (medscape.com)
  • Ironically, these are the kinds of things that human beings can do rather well. (beagleresearch.com)
  • The processing of your data helps to ensure that targeted information about the ministry's work is made available to the public. (bundesfinanzministerium.de)
  • Their experience of Thai nature, the local customs, the traditional hospitality, and the language all informed their work. (corkfilmcentre.com)
  • We have here a centralized neural society where the work process is integrated at the speed of light in reverberating feed-back circuits modulated to prevent total breakdown. (libcom.org)
  • This assumes a certain openness on the part of the receiver to participate in a process of renewal that has both cultural and economic components. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • We see that it is also a way of making decisions about society and nature that has emerged at a particular point in history for particular reasons. (social-ecology.org)
  • The energy crisis has revealed the physical aspect of human society in sudden and dramatic fashion. (ac.be)
  • human society, like any machine or organism, is no exception. (ac.be)
  • According to Palowitch [1982], the chief reason for this sophistication is that 'after more than two centuries of exploiting our coal resources, today's coal industry finds itself saddled with a horrendous legacy of human impairments and environmental damages which society demands be corrected. (cdc.gov)
  • 1997]. As suggested, many functions that must be carried out at an operation are only indirectly related to coal mining and processing. (cdc.gov)
  • As Mike Davis says, "on the basis of the evidence before us, taking a 'realist' view of the human prospect, like seeing Medusa's head, would simply turn us into stone. (versobooks.com)
  • Humans generally acquire the disease directly or indirectly from infected animals, or through occupational exposure to infected or contaminated animal products. (who.int)
  • With analytics and algorithms running at the speed and scale of technology rather than that of a person's brain, a vendor can process huge numbers of variables and synthesize solutions that result in content, products or offers that are relevant to each customer. (beagleresearch.com)
  • Nature on the island has to be destroyed so that labor can be exploited on it for hundreds of additional years. (monthlyreview.org)
  • it advances steadily towards powerful machines , towards great concentrations of forces and capital , and consequently to the extreme Division of labor. (wikiquote.org)
  • It is rather the social form in which we live our lives and the attendant nature-dominating discursive framework that constitute the most important threat to sustainability. (socialistproject.ca)
  • The purpose of ecoenergetics is to find ways to keep the industrial and economic activities of man from interfering with nature's cycles-- above all, to establish bases for real and effective cooperation between man and nature, abandoning forever the old idea of domination. (ac.be)
  • Were adequately designed human studies identified in the text (i.e., good exposure data, sufficiently long period of exposure to account for observed health effects, adequate control for confounding factors)? (cdc.gov)
  • We are rapidly approaching a planetary tipping point in the form of a climate Armageddon, threatening to make the earth unlivable for the human species, as well as innumerable other species. (transcend.org)
  • Of all the kinds of financial transactions, the gifting process has a unique capacity to link past, present, and future. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • Contrary to what is proclaimed by the defenders of the European Union, the process of integration did not bring about a convergence of the levels of economic development and living conditions of the peoples of the different countries of Europe. (mltoday.com)
  • Their argument against the possibility of fusion power is certainly original: "Fusion could be disastrous to humanity either if it were so rich that it gave too much energy, or if it took all our capital and gave us no net energy. (libcom.org)
  • In order to stay consistent with the standard NIPA data, we define intangibles as the sum of two categories: "intellectual property products" ( IPP )-which consists of research and development (R&D), software, and entertainment and artistic products-and investment in information processing equipment, i.e., high-tech equipment ( HT ). (chicagofed.org)
  • Although strictly speaking not an intangible, high-tech equipment is included because this type of capital is highly complementary to intellectual property products (e.g., software is not useful without a computer). (chicagofed.org)
  • This covers everything from analysing advertisements to reveal the techniques they use to encourage us to buy unnecessary and environmentally damaging products, right through to how nature poetry can encourage us to reengage with and appreciate the natural world. (worldeconomicsassociation.org)
  • The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers' products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. (who.int)
  • Errors and omissions excepted, the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. (who.int)
  • When we say that Germany or France profited from the EU, it is important to underline that it was the big capital of these countries that found in the EU a means to extend its dominion across the European continent and to impose ever greater levels of exploitation upon the workers of all countries. (mltoday.com)
  • Routine cross-notification between the veterinary and human health surveillance systems should be part of any zoonotic disease prevention and control programme, and close collaboration between the two health sectors is particularly important during epidemiological and outbreak investigations. (who.int)
  • From this perspective, a gift circulates into the future connected to and by human intentions but liberated from predicted outcomes. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • In my recent book, I make the observation that empowered people + adequate computing + well-tuned processes are the secret to future business success and Predictive Decisions is a great example of this "rule" in action. (beagleresearch.com)
  • In its mercantile phase, capitalists relied heavily on shipping technologies as they used early colonial trade routes as sites in which to gather precious goods in the colonies, transforming those goods into capital for future investment or trade. (social-ecology.org)
  • This process has been from the outset, associated with the colonial and imperialist domination of the major powers of the EU, and today it increasingly stands as the European pillar of NATO, having developed in concert with the US its militarist pillar and an interventionist and neocolonial policy. (mltoday.com)
  • Instead of reducing computational processes to the instrumentalization of the life-world, her project explores how the logico-cognitive models of computation and their performative executions can challenge the exceptionalism of human thinking stemming from colonial and patriarchal epistemologies. (ici-berlin.org)
  • Take for example the concept of capital). (libcom.org)
  • Gifting is as natural to the human condition as a sense of caring, unless we are conditioned to think and behave otherwise. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • We review and summarise those studies that holistically assess the impact of human activities, in the sense that impacts are not restricted to the home, city, or territory of the individuals, but instead are counted irrespective of where they occur. (nature.com)
  • We all want the same things: sufficiency of sustenance, safety and health, human companionship and a sense of connection with and comprehension of the activities of the world beyond our direct powers of intervention. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. (wikipedia.org)
  • We must continue to adapt our technology, which is, in essence, our ability to shape nature more effectively in order to face the problems that this human race faces today. (libcom.org)
  • The second stage began about 150 years ago with the increased depletion of the energy capital of this planet. (ac.be)
  • This latter issue is rightly indicated as the most critical, as human exposure levels are mostly unknown. (cdc.gov)
  • The simple, easily controlled mechanical movements of the slide rest were substituted for the skilful human control of hand tools. (wikiquote.org)
  • AN - check the tag INFANT HN - 2008 FX - Child Nutrition FX - Infant Nutrition Physiology FX - Milk FX - Milk, Human DH - Adolescent Nutrition DI - 052508 MN - SP6.021.067 MS - Nutrition of persons 10 through 19 years of age. (bvsalud.org)
  • All human cases have coincided with outbreaks in poultry. (who.int)
  • Since it was first reported in Vietnam in 2003, the disease has been responsible for human outbreaks and deaths in 15 countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa resulting in 603 human cases including 356 deaths. (who.int)
  • Egypt has been the most affected country in the EMR where the disease has remained endemic, with frequent epizootic and 167 human cases that include 60 deaths. (who.int)