Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature

Evidence

What is needed, Scheler argues, is a profound transformation of the subject who must, in order to accomplish this transformation, alter his interior subjectivity so that the “inner power” wins over “inferior, non-spiritual, psychological ‘life.’ ” The fight within the self is squarely about inverting, if not subverting, the entire value structures of modernity, amounting to a revolution not only against how we think but, more importantly, against who we, as humans, ultimately are. Integral to this revolution is a major adjustment in our attitudes that have objectified and commodified nature, an adjustment geared toward compelling us—initially and until it becomes ingrained in us as a second nature—to see the world as a unity. And this cannot be successfully undertaken without realizing the full potential of our capacities of love, sympathy, and solidarity, capacities that may reestablish the desideratum of harmony within life and the world (and capacities whose absence, as I have discussed in the previous chapter, constituted the sources for self-hatred responsible, inter alia, for genocide). — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499

Categorization

• XREF: Scheler’s call to see the world as a unity resonates with deep ecology and with the ‘One Square Inch’ book’s project of re-learning listening connection to land. — connects to: Civilization’s bondage breeds longing that becomes worship of a transfigured nature; Romanticized nature and desire directly translate rather than oppose capital — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460; Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826 (+8 more)