The Dialectics of Ecology
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The Dialectics of Ecology

Socalism and Nature

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The Dialectics of Ecology

Socalism and Nature

About this book

Explores ecological socialism's potential against capitalist environmental degradation

Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As with his prior books, The Dialectics of Ecology is grounded in the contention that we are now faced with a concrete choice between ecological socialism and capitalist exterminism, and rooted in insights drawn from the classical historical materialist tradition. In this latest work, Foster explores the complex theoretical debates that have arisen historically with respect to the dialectics of nature and society. He then goes on to examine the current contradictions associated with the confrontation between capitalist extractivism and the financialization of nature, on the one hand, and the radical challenges to these represented by emergent visions of ecological civilization and planned degrowth, on the other.

The product of contemporary ecosocialist debates, The Dialectics of Ecology builds on earlier works by Foster, including Marx's Ecology and The Return of Nature, aimed at the development of a dialectical naturalism and the formation of a path to sustainable human development.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The Struggle for Freedom as Necessity
  8. 2. Marx’s Critique of Enlightenment Humanism: A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective
  9. 3. Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism
  10. 4. Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
  11. 5. The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
  12. 6. Ecological Civilization, Ecological Revolution: An Ecological Marxist Perspective
  13. 7. Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization
  14. 8. Extractivism in the Anthropocene
  15. 9. Socialism and Ecological Survival
  16. 10. Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human Development
  17. Notes
  18. Index