Yves here. This video continues the discussion between John Bellamy Foster and Lynn Fries over Marx’s oft-ignored environmental thinking. Here, Foster looks to extensive thinking across cultures, from ancient times, on the role of nature and use of resources in class struggles and the pursuit of equality. Produced by Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPEnewsdocs JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER: My questions originally were fundamentally ecological, the human relation to nature. But I found in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom or of the dialectic of freedom and determinism. But this is connected…

