Marx and Nature: A Red and Green PerspectiveWith Marx and Nature , Paul Burkett reconstructs Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, including the natural condition of human bodily existence. Marx's value analysis places him squarely in the camp of the growing number of ecological theorists questioning the ability of monetary and market-based calculations to adequately represent the natural conditions of human production and development. |
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Part I Nature and Historical Materialism | 15 |
Part II Nature and Capitalism | 55 |
Part III Nature and Communism | 144 |
Notes | 258 |
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agriculture alienation Anti-Dühring anti-ecological appropriation of natural Burkett capital accumulation capital’s capitalism’s historical capitalist production Chapter character co-evolution commodity communism communist competition conditions of production consumption crises crisis division of labor duction ecological economic environmental exchange value existence extra-human nature forms of production free appropriation hence human development human labor human production increasing individual industrial insofar labor and nature labor power labour capacity labour-process Marx and Engels Marx’s analysis Marx’s approach Marx’s conception Marx’s projection Marx’s view Marx’s vision Marxism means of production mode of production natural and social natural basis natural conditions natural forces natural wealth nature’s Paul Burkett people-nature productive forces profit qualitative quantity raw material relations of production rents reproduction social conditions social form social labor social production social relations social separation society society’s struggles surplus value surplus-labour tendency tion use-value value and capital wage-labor work-time workers working-class