The Robbery Of Nature eBook

Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalisms relation to its natural environment was that of arobbery system, leading to an irreparableriftin the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalisms degradation of the earth have become the basis of extraordinary advances in critical theory and practice associated with contemporary ecosocialism. InThe Robbery of Nature, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, working within this historical tradition, examine capitalisms plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System.