#janet biehl

“Capitalism was an inherently self-destructive system. Bookchin realized early in the 50s that its fatal flaw was the fact that it was in conflict with the natural environment. Destructive both of nature and of human health. It industrialized agriculture, it tainted crops and by extension people with toxic chemicals. It inflated cities to unbearably large megalopolitan size cut-off from nature, it turns people into automatons, damaged both their bodies and their psyche. It pressured them through advertising to spend their money on useless commodities whose production further harmed the environment. The crisis of capitalism then would result not from the exploitation of the working class but from the intolerable dehumanization of people and from the destruction of nature.”

 –Janet Biehl: From Marxism to Democratic Confederalism