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Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective
by
Paul Burkett
There may still be disagreement about the threat to human survival posed by society’s environmental impacts, but no one can doubt that individual eco-systems and the global biosphere are both increasingly shaped by human production and consumption. This book shows that Marx’s treatment of natural conditions possesses an inner logic, coherence, and analytical power which ha
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Hardcover, 322 pages
Published
February 15th 1999
by Palgrave Macmillan
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Marx and Nature is a challenging, but very important book for all those concerned with developing and acting on the ecological insights in Marxist theory. Its republication is long over-due, but should offer new readers the opportunity to grapple with Paul Burkett's analysis, and build on the ideas here. It has a new foreword by John Bellamy Foster which locates the book in the wider debates that have arisen among Marxist thinkers since its publication.
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A perfect book to finish on Xmas Day, considering it's both Red and Green.
1. The book is Marxology, that is, a book interpreting and defending Marx (and Engels).
2. Burkett mostly succeeds in showing there is nothing necessarily anti-ecological about Marx's conception of communism. Associations of free producers operating production according to use value rather than abstract exchange value––intrinsic worth and need rather than profit––can be better common, social administrators of resources than ...more
1. The book is Marxology, that is, a book interpreting and defending Marx (and Engels).
2. Burkett mostly succeeds in showing there is nothing necessarily anti-ecological about Marx's conception of communism. Associations of free producers operating production according to use value rather than abstract exchange value––intrinsic worth and need rather than profit––can be better common, social administrators of resources than ...more
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