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


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

Paperback by Moore, Jason W.

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

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ISBN:
9781781689028
Publication Date:
18 Aug 2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Pages:
336 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 26 - 27 Apr 2024
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

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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.

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