Non-dialectical politics of nature

In my article I analyze the political relation to nature in Ernst Bloch’s utopian philosophy. Bloch borrows Marx’ idea of a historical process of naturalization of man and humanization of nature. Bloch affirms this as the goal of politics but does not mean by it a simple harmony between man and his natural surroundings. I suggest that National Socialism and Orthodox Marxism represent for Bloch undialectical ways of thinking about man and nature. For national socialism the idea of naturalization of man, is key. The Third Reich is a time and a place where the German race fully finds itself in blood and forest. "Blood" and "forest" both signify a direct synthesis between man and nature. The opposite thing happens in Orthodox Marxism. For its ‘mechanical’ communists, nature is only a reified concept of society. History then becomes a piece-by-piece taking under control of nature/society. Such mechanical materialism had its value during Enlightenment, Bloch admits, but as a "mechanically closed materialis" it becomes a political myth.