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 [0xc000d42b70 0xc000d89110 0xc000e49d10 0xc001c21740 0xc001c3a180 0xc000279ec0 0xc000377680 0xc0002fb590 0xc000314840 0xc00032a480 0xc0003c0cf0 0xc0006d2e10 0xc0006d3530 0xc0006792c0 0xc0007101e0 0xc000726bd0 0xc0004d7410 0xc00072c330 0xc000ba7ef0 0xc000bd6150 0xc0007826f0 0xc000783fb0 0xc0007c1ce0 0xc000d7c420 0xc0014e04b0 0xc0015031d0 0xc001f254a0 0xc002416d50 0xc000b12b40 0xc000e7b260 0xc0015f9ef0 0xc0027880f0 0xc000472f90] 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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