ABSTRACT Paul Thompson's book The Spirit of the Soil first appeared in 1995, and has been re-issued in a new edition in 2017. This comment on the new edition addresses Thompson's argument concerning the productionist paradigm in contemporary agriculture. Thompson's work implies that overproduction is the result of passive acceptance of an ethic of production, which has historical, sociological, and religious cultural roots. This article interprets Thompson's discussion of productionism as an argument for the best explanation, and offers an alternative explanation for overproduction in American agriculture. The claim is not that Thompson's argument is wrong, but that it is incomplete. But a proper understanding of the sources of productionism is important, since our understanding of the problem will inform the development of interventions designed to address it.

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“取代生产主义范式：评保罗·汤普森的《土壤精神》，第二版。”

摘要保罗·汤普森（Paul Thompson）的著作《土壤的精神》（The Spirit of the Soil）于1995年首次出版，并于2017年在新版中重新发行。对新版的评论阐述了汤普森关于当代农业生产主义范式的观点。汤普森的工作暗示，生产过剩是对生产伦理的被动接受的结果，生产伦理具有历史，社会学和宗教文化根源。本文将汤普森关于生产主义的讨论解释为最佳解释的论据，并为美国农业生产过剩提供了另一种解释。声称不是汤普森的说法是错误的，而是说法不完整。但是，正确认识生产资料的来源很重要，