Toward Organic Machines

In volume 2 of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx made one of his few, scattered, insights of direct relevance to the commodification of nature, dismissing the very notion of a truly capitalist forestry. He wrote,

The long production time (which comprises a relatively small period of working time) and the great length of the periods of turnover entailed make forestry an industry of little attraction to private and therefore capitalist enterprise. ¹