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[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah, this is the free gifts of nature in a nutshell.

[...] the “free gift of Nature to capital.” Capitalist exploitation and accumulation, as Marx explains, ultimately depend on capital’s usurping of nature’s gifts for itself, thereby monopolizing the means of production and wealth in its entirety

Probably better sources, but this is the first best one I found.

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

So... farming is a free gift from nature?

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

No, natural capital is - soil particularly.

[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

This person is correct. Land and the natural process of nature are free gifts.

[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Close. Farming is labour, which is what gives economic value to the free gifts. The capitalists skim excess value from this process in the form of wage theft and other fuckery.

I'm simplifying, but yeah.

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