Marx and the earth : an anti-critique

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Marx and the earth : an anti-critique

by John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett ; with the editorial assistance of Ryan Wishart

(Historical materialism book series, v. 115)

Brill, c2016

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-309) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations Chapter 2 The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels Chapter 3 Classical Marxism and Energetics Chapter 4 Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis Chapter 5 The Reproduction of Economy and Society Conclusion: Marx and Metabolic Restoration Appendix I: Sergei Podolinsky, 'Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces' (Translated from the Italian) Appendix II Sergei Podolinsky, 'Human Labour and Unity of Force' (Translated from the German) Bibliography Index

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