Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06VSFFLDR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Kohei Saito received his PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. He is currently a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara.
He is currently a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara. Kohei Saito received his PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Kohei Saito’s Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism lays waste to accusations of Marx’s ecological shortcomings. Delving into Karl Marx’s central works, as well as his natural scientific notebooks—published only recently and still being translated—Saito also builds on the works of scholars such as John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, to argue that Karl Marx actually saw the environmental crisis embedded in capitalism. “It is not possible to comprehend the full scope of Marx’s critique of political economy,” Saito writes,