Marx and the Earth
An Anti-Critique

Date Written:  2016-01-18
Publisher:  Brill
Year First Published:  {47800 Marx and the Earth MARX EARTH An Anti-Critique Burkett, Paul; Foster, John Bellamy Brill John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis. 2016-01-18 2016 2017 308pp BC47800s-MarxandEarth.png B Book 9789004229242 306.3/45-dc23 -- <br> <br>Table of Contents: <br> <br>Preface <br>Introduction <br> <br>Chapter 1 The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations <br>Chapter 2 The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels <br>Chapter 3 Classical Marxism and Energetics <br>Chapter 4 Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis <br>Chapter 5 The Reproduction of Economy and Society <br>Conclusion: Marx and Metabolic Restoration <br> <br>Appendix I: <br>Sergei Podolinsky, 'Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces' <br>(Translated from the Italian) <br> <br>Appendix II <br>Sergei Podolinsky, 'Human Labour and Unity of Force' <br>(Translated from the German) <br> <br>Bibliography <br>Index <br> <br> <br>Publisher's description: <br> <br>A decade and a half ago John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett introduced a new, revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx’s thought, demonstrating that Marx’s concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. Ecological relations were shown to be central to Marx’s critique of capitalism, including his value analysis. Now in Marx and the Earth Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx. The result is a full-fledged anti-critique—pointing to the crucial roles that dialectics, open-system thermodynamics, intrinsic value, and aesthetic understandings played in the original Marxian critique, holding out the possibility of a new red-green synthesis. CX20150 0 false true false CX20150.htm [] Cx}
Year Published:  2017
Pages:  308pp   ISBN:  9789004229242
  Dewey:  306.3/45-dc23
Resource Type:  Book
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John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.

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Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations
Chapter 2 The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels
Chapter 3 Classical Marxism and Energetics
Chapter 4 Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis
Chapter 5 The Reproduction of Economy and Society
Conclusion: Marx and Metabolic Restoration

Appendix I:
Sergei Podolinsky, 'Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces'
(Translated from the Italian)

Appendix II
Sergei Podolinsky, 'Human Labour and Unity of Force'
(Translated from the German)

Bibliography
Index


Publisher's description:

A decade and a half ago John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett introduced a new, revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx’s thought, demonstrating that Marx’s concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. Ecological relations were shown to be central to Marx’s critique of capitalism, including his value analysis. Now in Marx and the Earth Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx. The result is a full-fledged anti-critique—pointing to the crucial roles that dialectics, open-system thermodynamics, intrinsic value, and aesthetic understandings played in the original Marxian critique, holding out the possibility of a new red-green synthesis.