POVRATAK DIJALEKTIKE PRIRODE. BORBA ZA SLOBODU KAO NUŽNOST
The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The Struggle for Freedom as Necessity

Summary/Abstract: The resurrection of classical Marxist environmental criticism in the context of the current planetary crisis led to the return of the notion of dialectics of nature, connected especially with the work of Friedrich Engels. In the century following the deaths of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, the conception of the dialectic of nature played a formative role in the development of modern environmental criticism in science, particularly in Britain, and helped to inspire contemporary ecological movement. However, all this happened outside the dominant currents of Marxist thought and practice, in which a large gap appeared in this area. While official Marxism in the Soviet Union reduced the dialectic of nature to a fixed dogma, Western Marxism completely rejected the dialectic of nature. In the current epoch of the Anthropocene on the geological time scale - and in what is referred to here as the Capitalian age in the Anthropocene - a new historical-materialist synthesis, which is built on classical foundations and which again includes the dialectic of nature in order to refer to he considers the enormous ecological challenges facing humanity to be objectively (and subjectively) necessary.

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