Marx's Ecology -- A discussion of Ralph Bellamy Foster's book

The Institute for the Critical Studies of Society hosts Raj Sahani presenting "Marx's ecology", a discussion of Ralph Bellamy Foster book:
Ever since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," published in the mid-20th century, launched the environmental movement in the United States and beyond, it is the "Green" movement that has defined what ecological preservation is, based on idealism and within the parameters of Global Capital. The USSR and China, the two giant countries where alternative non-capitalist, at least partially socialist revolutions brought big changes in the early to mid-twentieth century, failed to evolve healthy human-nature relations (despite a good beginning in the USSR in 1920s). Marx has been accused of being 'Promethean' in regards to production, one who did not give importance to planetary ecology by his detractors and even some of his supporters agree, saying Marx did not deal with the limits in nature. Tracing the evolution of materialist philosophy from Epicurus' ancient materialism to Feuerbach's contemplative materialism, the revolt of the Frankfurt school, to development of the materialist approach in science from the 18th thru 20th centuries and its struggles against religion and idealist philosophy in the conception of nature, Bellamy Foster argues that Marx's practical, materialist philosophy integrates both harmonious social as well as healthy human-nature relations in his concept of Communism: "A Society of Associated Producers."