In Defense of Industrial Agriculture

A serious socialist agricultural policy would reject the pastoral utopian dreams of organic agriculture, while demanding that industrial agriculture, like all industry, be placed under democratic ownership.

Insofar as there is a left approach to agricultural policy in the western world, it is one that is hostile to industrial agriculture. Almost every Green Party in Europe has policies which promote organic as an alternative to industrial agriculture; anti-capitalist parties in the Global South like the ZANU-PF and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) ar…