Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective

Burkett, Paul
Date Written:  2014-06-01
Publisher:  Haymarket Books
Year First Published:  {45887 Marx and Nature MARX NATURE A Red and Green Perspective Burkett, Paul Haymarket Books While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy. 2014-06-01 1999 2014 309pp BC45887s-MarxandNature.jpg B Book 978-1608463695 - <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Foreword by John Bellamy Foster <br>Introduction to the Haymarket Edition <br>Preface and Acknowledgements <br> <br>Introduction <br> <br>Part I Nature and Historical Materialism <br>1. Requirements of a Social Ecology <br>2. Nature, Labor, and Production <br>3. The Natural Basis of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor <br>4. Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces <br> <br>Part II Nature and Capitalism <br>5. Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production <br>6. Capital's "Free Appropriation" of Natural and Social Conditions <br>7. Capitalism and Nature: A Value-Form Approach <br>8. Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis <br>9. Capitalism and Environmental Crisis <br>10. Marx's Working-Day Analysis and Environmental Crisis <br> <br>Part III Nature and Communism <br>11. Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism <br>12. Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits <br>13. Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle <br>14. Nature and Associated Production <br> <br>Notes <br>References <br>Index <br> <br> <br>From publisher: <br> <br>Though infrequently viewed as an environmental thinker, Karl Marx insisted that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by both historically developed relations among producers and natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy. CX18803 1 true true false CX18803.htm [0xc000d8ac00 0xc000dd0f90 0xc00155b860 0xc00227cab0 0xc00227d4a0 0xc00028b4d0 0xc0023a0bd0 0xc0001d7620 0xc0001ea780 0xc0001fc3c0 0xc0002d83c0 0xc00055b6e0 0xc00055bda0 0xc0005b8cc0 0xc0005b9b60 0xc00068e480 0xc0001de6c0 0xc000420810 0xc0004baab0 0xc0004bacf0 0xc00245aed0 0xc002474660 0xc001518330 0xc0003026f0 0xc000a686c0 0xc000ab33e0 0xc000f5aed0 0xc00169d710 0xc00252c450 0xc0026a9b00 0xc000697a40 0xc0017a14d0 0xc002842210] Cx}
Year Published:  2014
Pages:  309pp   ISBN:  978-1608463695
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX18803

While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by John Bellamy Foster
Introduction to the Haymarket Edition
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Nature and Historical Materialism
1. Requirements of a Social Ecology
2. Nature, Labor, and Production
3. The Natural Basis of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor
4. Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces

Part II Nature and Capitalism
5. Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production
6. Capital's "Free Appropriation" of Natural and Social Conditions
7. Capitalism and Nature: A Value-Form Approach
8. Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis
9. Capitalism and Environmental Crisis
10. Marx's Working-Day Analysis and Environmental Crisis

Part III Nature and Communism
11. Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism
12. Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits
13. Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle
14. Nature and Associated Production

Notes
References
Index


From publisher:

Though infrequently viewed as an environmental thinker, Karl Marx insisted that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by both historically developed relations among producers and natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.

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