Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective
Burkett, Paul
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Date Written: 01/06/2014
Year Published: 2014 First Published: 1999
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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