Marx's Ecology by John Foster
Materialism and Nature
Examining Marx and Engels’ writings through the lens of historical materialism, this book reconstructs an ecological dimension of their thought, arguing that capitalism systematically disrupts the metabolic interaction between society and nature (the “metabolic rift”), producing soil exhaustion, nutrient depletion, and broader environmental degradation; it critiques deterministic and reductionist readings of Marx, situates ecological crisis in the dynamics of private property and capitalist accumulation, surveys historical and contemporary examples of ecological breakdown, and argues that only a fundamental, socialist reorganization of production and social relations can restore a sustainable social metabolism.
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- 2000
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- American
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- English
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