Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of CapitalFinance. 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. |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
EnvironmentMaking in | |
Value in the Web of Life | |
From Dualism to Dialectics | |
The Tendency of the Ecological Surplus to Fall | |
The Capitalization of Nature or The Limits of Historical | |
On the Nature and Origins | |
Abstract Social Nature and the Limits to Capital | |
Time Capital and the Reproduction | |
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| Title | Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital |
| Author | Jason W. Moore |
| Publisher | Verso Books, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1781689032, 9781781689035 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / World Nature / Ecology Political Science / Political Economy Political Science / Political Ideologies / Capitalism Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy |
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