Marxs Ecology

Marxs Ecology

by John Bellamy Foster
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/03/2000

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Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.

Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.

Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.

By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

ISBN:
9781583673805
9781583673805
Category:
Political science & theory
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-03-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Monthly Review Press
John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review.

He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature which won the Deutscher Memorial prize.

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