Species-Being and Climate Change

The Marxist premise, that Socialism is the actualization of the universal consciousness of the Species-Being of its members, is problematic in two respects.  First, as has been previously discussed, Species-Being entails Nature-Being, so that the former involves the elimination of inter-personal exploitation is contingent on the principles of the latter, to which that goal might be indifferent or even contrary.  Second, the relation between that entailment, and Trotsky's proposition that Socialism is based on and promotes the human power over Nature, is difficult to reconcile.  for, Trotsky takes for granted that the rest of Nature is at the disposal of the Human Species, thereby merely secularizing a traditional Theological proposition, which seems antithetical to the subordination of Species to Nature.  Indeed, without any divine sanction, the presumption that Humans have been granted by Nature indefinite power over Nature seems arrogant, as has been confirmed in subsequent decades by the emergence of the destructiveness by that Human power over Nature.  Especially significant is the phenomenon often mischaracterized as "Global Warming", the error of which is only its second term.  For, that Climate Change is, indeed, global, indicates that the presumed power of the Species over Nature is conditioned in some respect, contrary to Trotsky's formulation.  Of course, given that the U. S. and China are both perpetrators of that phenomenon shows that it is not exclusive to either a Capitalist or a Socialist system.