Marx and Soil Studies- Modern Democrats Playbook

In a couple posts, I have mentioned that Democrat President Obama and the Democrats who control Congress seem to be promoting energy policies that are closer in vision and direction to those of the 1800's than the 2000's. While Republicans push for oil to fuel the internal combustion engine and points towards splitting that atom as a source of fuel for electrical generators, the Democrats push for windmills and solar heaters. Republicans talk about faster, safer, better automobiles- a product of the 1900's. Democrats talk about faster, safer, better trains- a product of the 1800's. It's almost as if the Democrats are looking at an old playbook, one from the late 1800's.

With this thought in my head, I pondered. Perhaps the Democrats are using a playbook from the late 1800's. But whose playbook would they use? Obama uses ideas of radicalism that were invented by Saul Alinsky- but this 'railroads, wind, and solar' junk predates his adventure in government. These ideas must have come from farther back. They must have come from someone who really influences the Democrat party, even today. So I did some research, and think I know where the Democrats got their energy policy from: Karl Marx.

Marx was influenced heavily in his communist theories by his amateur and uneducated studies in soil nutrients. He read a report once from a German chemist, Justus von Liebig, who claimed that British agriculture, with its intensive methods of cultivation to increase yields for the market, operated as a system of robbery, destroying the vitality of the soil. Marx thought that this worked fine- instead of farmers making society better by watering more, putting down fertilizer, and employing better farming methods, Marx thought that the poor soil was being tortured and that as the British farmers grew more and more crops, the soil was losing nutrients.

Marx said that in earlier societies, where they didn't use such environmentally unfriendly methods, everything was better- there was some cycle of life that went on. But capitalism and private property destroyed this utopia, and the land was sad. Now, farmers grew crops who took happy nutrients from the soil, and then those crops were exchanged for money (the horror!), and the nutrients went to cities, were they were wasted by people. Marx thought this was all very bad, and the solution that he implies is that all people must die.

Democrats today like these ideas, and react with horror when oil is traded for money and produces things- they are upset that the Earth is being raped for money. Pelosi and others talk about how the globe has been protected by cap and trade, about how we are going back to responsible stewardship of the planet, and how the energy that is produced can now be better controlled by government so that it isn't wasted.

Democrats are using Marx's ideas today.