自然與社會的自我防護運動

The Self-defending “Double Movement” of the Nature and the Society

本文從K. Polanyi 和F. Braudel 的理論視野出發，簡要論述資本主義經濟對市場、社會與自然的侵吞；必須透過經濟與社會「雙向運動」的認識，才能理解所謂「天災」其實是大自然的一部分，是自然對經濟社會的自我保護形制；而各種家園生計、文化政治等社會抗爭，則是社會體抵禦「人禍」的自我保護。

The author set forth his arguments from the perspectives of Polanyi’s theory as well as Braudel’s three-tiered social formation scheme. The article reviewed the dynamics involved in the capitalist accumulation regime which causes various social and natural calamities. To counter such man-made disasters the author suggested that we must understand the mechanism of societal self-defense and recognitize its manifestation in concrete acts of social resistances.