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Marx and the earth : an anti-critique / by John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett ; with the editorial assistance of Ryan Wishart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, John Bellamy, author.
- Burkett, Paul, 1956 May 26- author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 115.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 115
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism and ecology.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A decade and a half ago John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett introduced a new, 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. Ecological relations were shown to be central to Marx’s critique of capitalism, including his value analysis. Now in Marx and the Earth Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx. The result is a full-fledged anti-critique —pointing to the crucial roles that dialectics, open-system thermodynamics, intrinsic value, and aesthetic understandings played in the original Marxian critique, holding out the possibility of a new red-green synthesis.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations
- The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels
- Classical Marxism and Energetics
- Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis
- The Reproduction of Economy and Society
- Marx and Metabolic Restoration
- Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces by Sergei Podolinsky
- Human Labour and the Unity of Force by Sergei Podolinsky
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28879-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004288799 DOI
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