The Robbery of Nature. Capitalism and the Ecological Rift – book review | Counterfire
The Robbery of Nature raises important questions about means and strategy for solving the ecological crisis, and the role of work in society, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature.
The Robbery of Nature raises important questions about means and strategy for solving the ecological crisis, and the role of work in society, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature. Capitalism and the Ecological Rift (Monthly Review Press, 2020), 384pp. Capitalism, as Marx stated in Capital, is based on the expropriation of the earth. All progress in capitalist agriculture, he pointed out, ‘is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil’ (p.12). John Bellamy Foster established in Marx’s Ecology the centrality…
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