How does capitalism work through the web of life? How can we begin to understand capitalism not simply as an economic system of markets and production and a social system of class and culture, but as a way of organising …
ABSTRACT Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an astonishing historical capacity to produce, locate, and occupy cheap natures external to the system. In …
Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology
Introduction Of all the domains of Marxian political economy, nature is by far the most vexing. Is nature an economic input as in the notion of natural resources; is it the object of labour in the process of production; or …
It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that: When we encounter some sonorous phrase such as “the strong ebb and flow of the trade cycle” we must be put on our guard. For …
Reconstructing the Earth Power is at the core of the geo-constructivist conception of the world. The power of humanity as a kind to reduce its status of a species to its smallest part; a power that takes place on a …