Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

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Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today&’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a &“world-ecology&” of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism&’s greatest strength—and the source of its problems—is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.
Copyright:
2015

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Book Size:
336 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781781689042
Related ISBNs:
9781781689028, 9781781689011, 9781804298329
Publisher:
Verso Books
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Copyrighted By:
Verso
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
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