Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique

Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique

Language: English

Pages: 308

ISBN: 1608467058

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Over a decade ago Foster and Burkett introduced a revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx’s thought, demonstrating that Marx’s concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. In this volume, Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx.

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Panacea it turns out that growth is itself a cause of disease’ – and later by his article ‘Capitalism and the Environment’, where he insisted that it was environmentally necessary to ‘reverse’ capitalist growth trends; (5) Marxist socialist Charles H. Anderson’s book The Sociology of Survival, appearing in 1976, which provided perhaps the first full-scale socialist attempt at an ecological critique of capitalism as a global system, arguing for a stationary state (degrowth) and introducing the.

Manuscripts about the dialectic of organic/inorganic relations and of the alienation of human society from nature, drawing on both the Hegelian philosophy of nature and materialist philosophy extending back to Epicurus.115 What emerges from such an analysis is a complex dialectical and coevolutionary view that focuses on ecological interdependencies. This analysis immediately transcends simple dualistic and instrumentalist accounts of the relationship between human beings and nature. Moreover, in.

Inherently mechanistic and reductionist, opposed to approaches that are dialectical and holistic.129 According to 128 129 Bookchin 1990, p. 47. Clark 1989; O’Neill’s 1994. 88 chapter 1 O’Neill’s account, Marx’s emphasis on the ultimate oneness of organic and inorganic nature contradicts science. Like many thinkers in the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, O’Neill essentially cedes nature (and the whole realm of physical and natural science) to positivism. The dialectic is confined to the realm of.

Of human consumption and work. In doing so, Podolinsky ignored Carnot’s own warning against the practical application of the concept of perfect energy efficiency even in the case of steam engines: We should not expect ever to utilise in practice all the motive power of combustibles. The attempts made to attain this result would be far more hurtful than useful if they caused other important considerations to be neglected. The economy of the combustible is only one of the conditions to be fulfilled.

Meaningful to the extent that it can help us in the development of an ecological-materialist praxis – addressing the ecological challenges and burdens of our historical time.25 What can be called third-stage ecosocialist research thus seeks to utilise the richer, more ecologically nuanced understanding of classical historical materialism as uncovered by second-stage ecosocialist analysis, and the needed synthesis to which it points in our times, in order to explore our accelerating planetary.

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