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

Jason W. Moore

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Verso Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
18 August 2015
Pages
328
ISBN
9781781689011

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

Jason W. Moore

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology

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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