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On the plus side, the creative drive relates to what humankind can get out of nature for its own uses; on the negative side, the destructive drive bears most heavily on nature's capacity to respond to the demands placed on it.

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It is capitalism itself, with its in-built attitude toward human beings and nature alike as means to an alien end, that must be rooted out and replaced.

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Since there is no way to increase the capacity of the environment to bear the burdens placed on it, it follows that the adjustment must come entirely from the other side of the equation.

Paul Sweezy

Humanity, having learned to perform miracles of production, must at last learn to use its miraculous powers not to degrade itself and destroy its home but to make the world a better place to live in for itself and its progeny for millennia to come.

Paul Sweezy

Paul Sweezy

Paul Sweezy

Born: April 10, 1910

Died: February 27, 2004 (aged 93)

Bio: Paul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxian economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review.

Known for:

Monopoly Capital (1966)
The Theory of Capitalist Development (1942)
The transition from feudalism to capitalism (1954)
Four lectures on Marxism (1931)
Modern capitalism and other essays (1972)

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