Economics and Ecology

One Moral criticism to which Capitalism is vulnerable is that it subordinates Wealth to Health, applicable to both one who profits and one who loses.  The Marxist repudiation of Capitalist Exploitation can be conceived as targeting such a subordination in the case of workers.  Another Moral criticism is that Capitalism dehumanizes all people, since its Atomism expresses a Physicist, i. e. Newtonian, concept of Human that is inadequate to a Biological, i. e. Organicist, concept of them as living beings.  The Marxist principle 'From each according to one's abilities' can be interpreted as implicitly exemplifying that criticism, as has been previously discussed. Now, the concept of Organism entails that of Environment.  Thus, the Biological judgment of an Economic doctrine is from the perspective of a more comprehensive context, i. e. an Ecological context, in which Economic activity is located, or, in other words, that it subjects Economics to Ecological principles.  Marxism does not fully develop such a critique, but does suggest some of its initial premises.