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The double register of Cheap Nature
#worldecology
#capitalocene
Jason Moore:
For capitalism, Nature is “cheap”.
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I gave a talk on climate justice earlier this year to a European NGO.
They asked, "What's the most practical demand you can suggest?"
Me: Demand the withdrawal of US and European armies, shut down the bases, everywhere in the South.
Them: No, really. What do you suggest?
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So you want to be a Marxist? Get used to liberals calling you a reactionary and Marxists calling you a liberal.
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Raymond Williams, on Socialism and Ecology. Always worth re-reading. Thanks to the great comrades at
@NewSocialistNS
for making it available.
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I am continually struck by "critical" scholars invoking the
#anthropocene
in a very uncritical way. Geology is the natural science discipline most directly tied to imperialism & extractivism. Yes, one can appropriate concepts, but not without qualification.
#capitalocene
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This is what happens when we allow capital to run academic journals. Fuck them. Solidarity to all who are forging ahead with non-corporate journals. Seize the means of intellectual production!
The coup at Theory & Society is complete. After the ed board resigned, the 2 editors handpicked by Springer installed a new board entirely comprised of cognitive scientists, social psychologists, org sociologists, sociobiologists, b school profs, & folks into evolutionary theory
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If you are denouncing "European colonialism" & cognates without ever joining that critique to the class dynamics of imperialism & imperialist accumulation, you are not making a radical argument. You are a making a bourgeois nationalist argument.
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Teaching Federici's 1970s essays today. Surprisingly few of Federici's fans today have any interest in her class struggle analysis of gendered work, capital accumulation, and proletarian unity under conditions of bourgeois naturalism. Maybe we could change that?
#worldecology
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One of the most important Marxist books of the 20th century. And my inspiration for grasping capitalism as
#worldecology
.
It feels like there are two stories topping the news today--the strikes in Hollywood and the fight over AI. This book, written fifty years ago, is one of the best guides to understanding both.
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Rest in power, Antonio Negri. Our argument in
#worldecology
has been to outline how capitalism seeks to create a planetary factory of power, profit and life.
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
@oikeios
"Slowly the factory ceased to exist. The whole society became a factory." - Antonio Negri
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My dear comrade and co-author,
@_RajPatel
has penned an eloquent and lucid essay on land in the capitalist
#worldecology
. As ever, brilliant and on point!
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Saying climate change is
#anthropogenic
reproduces late capitalism's big lie. The climate crisis is
#capitalogenic
.
#capitalocene
@rahmstorf
“It turns out that saying "Humans did it!" may obscure as much as it clarifies. A world of political difference lies between saying "Humans did it!" - and saying "Some humans did it!"” -
@oikeios
#Capitalocene
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The degradation of Marxist critique: "Moore [is]... indebted to [Neil] Smith in arguing that nature is in fact something produced by capital, and that in reality nature does not exist as something external to human society." My view is precisely NOT this
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This is correct. The climate crisis is 100 percent driven by the imperialist bourgeoisie and its commitment to endless accumulation.
#capitalocene
Jason Moore is a interesting ecological theorist, though in fact, I really dispute the premise that the ecological crisis can be blamed solely on the current capitalist system:
* Capitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis - Jason W. Moore...
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After witnessing many academic vulgarizations of the Cheap Nature thesis, I thought I'd make a public service announcement: the theory of Cheap Nature is a theory of class exploitation in the web of life. Class. Exploitation. The point is we need to abolish these.
#worldecology
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I'm still fond of this essay, and surprised that "ecological" Marxism remains so uninterested in the Transition Debate -- not only a debate over capitalist origins but over the possibilities for socialism
#worldecology
. Here's an easy link:
#Capitalocene
: "The emergence of
#capitalism
signaled a quantum leap forward in the scale, scope, and speed of ecological degradation.“
@oikeios
(2003)
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Just a public service announcement: anthropocene is not a historical concept, it's an ideological one that masquerades as geohistory.
#worldecology
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This was great, lively, generative conversation today with Nancy Fraser. All thanks go to
@UrbanTheoryLab
and
@UChicagoCEGU
for hosting. Video will be posted.
#worldecology
#capitalocene
Today at noon, Nancy Fraser and Jason W. Moore join Aaron Jakes for "Capitalism's Natures and the Climate Crisis."
Friday, February 10, 12:00pm CT
Room 142, 1155 E. 60th St.
Register here:
@oikeios
@aaronjakes
@UChicagoSSD
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Rest in power, Paul Burkett. Marx and Nature is a classic, and deeply influential to my thinking of capitalism as
#worldecology
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RIP, Paul Burkett. In addition to his invaluable work on inflation, he is best known for his book “Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective”, which argued against the assumption that Marx favored relentless industry over environmental sustainability.
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Anticommunists tend to lack imagination even with their insults. "Apologist for" has been a hallmark of redbaiters since the 1920s.
Anyone who’s retwted this with no hostile comment for Grayzone (or Marcetic) - check the list - is obvs some degree of apologist for Putin, Press TV (the IRGC, Iran), and Bashar al-Assad…
Eg,
@donaldp1917
,
@oikeios
, along with the usual pretend left, tankies, and Brexiteers…
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Totally correct. The
#anthropocene
is a cultural and ideological claim that climate change is made by Man, not capital. It is a species of climate denialism = a denial of the real, historical causes of climate crisis.
#capitaloceno
#capitalocene
El concepto Antropoceno, como "ilusión peligrosa"(
@oikeios
), es utilizado para negar la crisis climática como lucha de clases, justificar la expoliación de la naturaleza y negar la importancia de las luchas sociales y políticas en la recomposición del metabolismo social.
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The knowledge factory and the accumulation of capital.
Elite universities are hedge funds attached to real-estate empires run by right-wing billionaires with lucrative research arms enmeshed with the military-surveillance state and a side hustle in education that make their vast holdings tax free.
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Environmentalism has long been a project of the rich and powerful. Here's one cut at explaining its American lineage.
#worldecology
In the 1960s, it seemed like mainstream environmentalism might take a radical course. But as
@oikeios
writes, the movement quickly fell under the sway of benign reformism. It’s been stuck there ever since.
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Seize the means of intellectual production.
Sold. They had me at “In this essay, we argue for administrative abolition, that is, the elimination of all college presidents, provosts, deans and other top level administrators...”
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Capital-denialism is climate change denialism. On
#capitalogenic
climate crisis and the myth of anthropogenesis.
#capitalocene
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I am impressed by the contortions performed by "critical" academics to avoid the word, class, in mentions of the
#capitalocene
. No, it does not mean an "economic system"; it means the class struggle in the web of life.
#worldecology
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Important
@adam_tooze
. He's wrong however about why the
#capitalocene
hasn't caught on. It's not that it's so "ugly" -- more or less than the ungainly anthropocene? -- it's that everything about Environmentalist thought tells us NOT to "name the system."
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The
#capitalocene
is not an alternative to the anthropocene. Or any Cene. It's a mockery of the absurd claim that history is a primordial conflict between Man And Nature. As Engels summarized: labor created man. Capitalism is a class struggle in the web of life.
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If there was a decisive period of capitalist technical change (as mechanization), it is either 1870s-1910s or 1450-1600 & precisely not "the" Industrial Revolution (1790s-1840s). Too many Marxists have confused Marx's prescience about early large-scale industry with the reality.
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The climate crisis is not anthropogenic, it's capitalogenic.
#capitaloceno
#capitalocene
@WilliamJRipple
@ProfSteveKeen
“the phrase anthropogenic climate change is a special brand of blaming the victims of exploitation, violence, and poverty. A more nearly accurate alternative? Ours is an era of capitalogenic climate crisis.” -
@oikeios
#Capitalocene
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Grades. The cultural logic of the managerial class.
I find it *insane* that the Ivy League does crazy grade inflation and — seeing that — so many people at non-Ivies insist on grading “rigorously,” thereby re-enforcing the pre-existing opinion of employers that elite uni kids are geniuses (he’s a 4.0!) and state school kids idiots
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For my Portuguese-speaking and -reading comrades, here's my essay on the sugar commodity frontier in the rise of capitalism: O açúcar e a expansão da economia-mundo na era moderna: fronteiras da mercadoria, transformação ecológica e industrialização
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Precisely! the invocation of "natural law" -- from Locke to Malthus to Galton to Hardin to the Anthropocene -- is a staple of ruling class ideology. Hard to believe that most Marxists have missed the point: Nature is the most dangerous word in the bourgeois lexicon.
#capitalocene
This is my go-to for political ecology as a concept: any time someone says something is simply a force of nature, they’re masking a system of power
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Population. The first refuge of the Environmentalism of the Rich.
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I long for the day when people who say "we need a different economic model" also say "we need a democratic alternative to the bourgeoisie's biospheric dictatorship." The climate crisis is the result, and terrain, of class politics in the web of life
#worldecology
#capitalocene
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Capitalist anthropocentrism has never been about human supremacy; always about the supremacy of some humans.
#capitalocene
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This is 100 percent correct. If I may add a comradely amendment, the
#anthropocene
is all the more pernicious for its Man vs Nature thinking, replicating in academic terms the ideological overstructure of modern imperialism and its Civilizing Projects
#capitalocene
#worldecology
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This is an important turn of events from an important scholar central to the
#anthropocene
discussions. Erle Ellis's statement is worth reading.
Why I Resigned from the Anthropocene Working Group Today.
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Worthwhile video. The absence of anti-imperialist critique - mirroring Malm's fossil capital concept - is worth debating. From the plantation & its proletariat flowed the capital, markets & materials necessary for early 19c industrialization.
#capitalocene
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Capitalism is not a subset of "man in general" (M&E, 1848). "Man in general" is a fetish, and a practical instrument of bourgeois rule since 1492. "Humanity" is not a historical actor: specific groups, classes, institutions, states are historical actors.
#capitalocene
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No civilization has organized through the visual more than capitalism. Its capacity to image, survey & map planetary ecologies of every kind has been central to
#capitalogenic
climate change: "The Promethean Gaze, from Mercator to the Space Age."
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Given the poverty of history and theory around accumulation crisis in "ecological" Marxism, this intervention is useful
#worldecology
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The climate crisis is a class struggle.
#capitalocene
"The emergent patterns of environmental change are also patterns of class formation and imperialism."
In this week's
@AWorldtoWinPod
, Jason W. Moore (
@oikeios
) speaks to
@graceblakeley
about capitalism and climate breakdown. 🔥
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Why is the
#capitalocene
NOT an "ecocene"? Because the circuit of capital depends on politically-mediated conditions of re/production and sources of Cheap Nature. Every great wave of capital accumulation depends on a "new" imperialism.
#worldecology
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Notice the ideological mission creep of the phrase "Global North." Unless referring to the aggregation of rich countries in a strictly distributional way, I've resolved to speak of the "imperialist countries" (or states, or powers).
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It's not "humanity" that's breaking the climate =
#capitalogenic
not anthropogenic!
#capitalocene
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Important intervention. There are not "converging" crises, but manifold expressions of a singular crisis: of capitalism as a
#worldecology
of power, profit & life.
#capitalocene
NEW POST: Güney Işıkara challenges ideas floating around on the left - such as ‘polycrisis’ and ‘overlapping emergencies’ - for serving to conceal the underlying culprit that gives rise to global challenges, namely the totality of capitalist relations. 🔥
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A recent essay, with
@gonzosociology
, on why the
#anthropocene
is fundamental to bourgeois ideology, and how its flight from history disables climate justice politics: "Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the
#Capitalocene
"
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Collapse is a neo-Malthusian trope. Crisis? Sure.
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
“We are frequently warned of the alleged dangers of civilizational ‘
#collapse
’. But is the ‘collapse’ of
#capitalism
– a
#civilization
that plunges more than a third of its population into malnutrition – really something to be feared? Historical experience suggests not."
@oikeios
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@BizarrelyCoca
American military power - overt & covert - has been the bulwark of worldwide reaction since '47. (Truman Doctrine, globalizing the Monroe Doctrine.) Its task has been to ensure American geopolitical hegemony & world accumulation. Ultimately about Cheap Nature in v. broad strokes
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This was a lively and generative dialogue. I think Nancy Fraser and I start to really tease out our (comradely) differences towards the end.
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
#worldecology
Video is now available from "Capitalism's Natures and the Climate Crisis," CEGU's February panel event with Nancy Fraser and Jason W. Moore, moderated by Aaron Jakes and introduced by Neil Brenner:
@oikeios
@aaronjakes
@UrbanTheoryLab
@UChicagoSSD
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Blow up a pipeline and one can slow global warming for a day or week; abolish the relations of power, profit and life that made the pipeline, and planetary justice becomes possible.
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We live in times of anthropogenic climate crisis. Or do we? This essay shows how “humanity” is a thoroughly modern fetish, forged in the bloodbath of militarized accumulation and conquest after 1492: "Our
#Capitalogenic
World"
#capitalocene
#worldecology
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Creeping totalitarianism.
Columbia University has just set a terrible and dangerous precedent. Speaking out in anguish against war crimes is what we should all be doing. And yes, it will break a few rules. Students should not be punished and silenced for acting based on their conscience.
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To paraphrase the great Claudia von Werlhof: Nature became everything the bourgeoisie did not wish to pay for.
Precisely! the invocation of "natural law" -- from Locke to Malthus to Galton to Hardin to the Anthropocene -- is a staple of ruling class ideology. Hard to believe that most Marxists have missed the point: Nature is the most dangerous word in the bourgeois lexicon.
#capitalocene
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How is it that so many want to use
#capitalocene
but cleanse it of its class struggle analytic -- on display in very different ways in my argument and Malm's? Capitalism without class struggle is a kind of institutionalist-demographic-market construct.
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I love this quote from The German Ideology: "the means of mental production." The critique of ideology has fallen out of favor, and with it, the left's willingness to pursue class analyses of the ideological/intellectual nexus.
#worldecology
More than a century ago Karl Marx observed that those who control the material means of production also control the mental means of production. So I’m every epoch the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class.
-Michael Parenti
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This connection is so crucial. Ignored on the one hand (too often) by Marxists, and on the other hand (too often) by eco-feminists, etc., is the basic connection: socially necessary labor-time stands on the pedestal of socially necessary unpaid work.
#worldecology
This exploitation of waged labour, non-waged household labour and our ecology enables a lower minimum wage (for those that qualify) and subsidises business, thus allowing greater profits. As
@oikeios
puts it:
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Militarized accumulation is imperialism in the web of life
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
This was no natural disaster. Colonialism was the powder keg and the spark of this climate massacre 🧵 (1/10)
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Capitalism grows more toxic as the last frontiers of Cheap Nature are enclosed. The whole world becomes a sacrifice zone.
#capitalocene
#worldecology
"An investigation by conservationists has found
#evidence
that deep-seabed
#mining
of rare minerals could cause 'extensive and irreversible' damage to the planet."
#BiodiversityCrisis
#Capitalocene
#Wasteocene
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For those in Chicago this early February, Nancy Fraser and I in conversation:
#worldecology
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
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This is important. Capitalism's class metabolism is reproduced through militarized accumulation.
#capitaloceno
#capitalocene
The general silence on the military (and colonialism) in Foster's metabolic rift and Huber's ecological modernization is one (among a good number of) major reason(s) why they are wildly insufficient for an environmental Marxist politics...
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Can't be said often enough. Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Capitalists are sometimes accommodating of electoral democracy. But at no point in history have capitalists ever accepted the outcome of elections that might threaten capitalist property relations.
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Can we stop confusing abstraction/specificity with geographical scale? The solar system is not more abstract than the Earth. Historical capitalism is not more abstract than work in an Amazon 'fulfillment center.' These are distinct geographies with distinct histories.
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Andreas Malm can't resist calling me a poststructuralist, which suggests to me that he understands neither my work nor poststructuralism.
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File under unexpected:)
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I taught Neil Smith's Uneven Development yesterday. All those folks who called him a social constructionist might benefit from another (attentive) reading.
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Here I unpack a socialist perspective on climate doomism, the global police state, and the Environmentalism of the Rich in the epochal crisis of capitalism.
#worldecology
#capitalocene
Listen to Jason Moore
@oikeios
, read Jason Moore… Don’t be a part of the climate academic-industrial complex!
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Useful intervention from Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel
and Guddi Singh on
#capitalogenic
disease.
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Rest in power.
RiP Professor Maria Mies (1931-2023): a giant of ecofeminist political economy on whose shoulders I, alongside many others, am proud to stand. We will do justice to her work.
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Nothing to see here. Just a Germany in the thick of rearmament and the suppression of political speech.
Congratulations,
@yanisvaroufakis
- they’ve honoured you. The BND - whose ex-chief was exposed for far-right politics - probably put you their black book when you were challenging Schäuble in 2015.
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MR has trouble saying the obvious here: the "trigger" is not "human action" but
#capitalogenic
extinction. The
#capitalocene
is a
#necrocene
.
In five centuries, human actions have triggered a surge of genus extinctions that would otherwise have taken 18,000 years to accumulate—what the paper calls a “biological annihilation.”
@physorg
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The ultra-centralization of capital in end-stage monopoly capitalism makes today's inflation a new phase of class war. Why no environmentally-oriented scholars talking about this?
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy.
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The ecosocialist charge that
#worldecology
embraces an undialectical monism is false. For us, capitalism unfolds through differentiated unities and the 'interpenetration of opposites': bourgeois & proletarian, 'natural distinctness' & 'economic equivalence,' value & unpaid work,
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Yes!
#capitalocene
. The climate crisis is capitalogenic.
Ps, no implied criticism before! :)
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For the curious, here's the introduction to A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things:
#worldecology
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by
@_RajPatel
&
@oikeios
This is a well-written book about how Capitalism has impacted our Earth. I love the depth of the historical details & the connections the book puts forward about our mundane habits - from care to work.
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Capitalism's socio-ecological antagonism, for Marx, emerges through the class struggle in the web of life. As Engels and Marx insist, that conflict is not between "man" and "nature" but bourgeois and proletarian
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
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The climate crisis is
#capitalogenic
. Those responsible have names and addresses. So do their bank accounts.
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
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@zimbaboy
Academics have established an intellectual no-fly zone around the role of Foundations and the technocratic, do-gooder liberal NGOs. We must not speak of the Billionaire Foundations.
#worldecology
#capitalocene
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We don't need corporations to run scholarly journals. Seize the means of mental production!
#knowledgefactories
#Science
/
#Society
/
#KnowledgeFactories
: "More than 40 leading
#scientists
have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “
#greed
” of publishing giant
#Elsevier
."
#capitalocene
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Class solidarity is internationalist. Or it is nothing.
The socialist recognizes no national boundary lines. The nation in which he lives embraces the working class of the world. Every worker everywhere is his brother
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Ps, if you are periodizing the history of capitalism without an account of exploitation, that's a bourgeois conception.
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Solidarity.
This one is for the absolute heroes who are blockading the shipment of weapons.
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Strong essay confirming what many of us have long suspected: Max Weber sucks.
Opponents of Marxism who have seized on Max Weber’s theories as an alternative to Marx fail to acknowledge the role of exploitation in class relations.
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To accept "Man & Nature" as innocent description is to accept the imperialist definition of the problem. Capitalism is not a subset of Man/Nature. With Marx & Engels, we must insist on the deceptive innocence of "man in general."
#capitalocene
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One of my favorites from comrade Marx.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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@vogliamo_tutto
I'm sure you do understand, comrade. :) The knowledge factory and its disciplining mechanisms -- largely but not only around the fetish of "professionalization" -- is a repressive apparatus. Among its functions is the production of academic alienated labor.
#knowledgefactories
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Great thread on the knowledge factory. The ruling class decided after the Sixties that the campuses would never again be the sites of large-scale popular struggle. They got their way.
The disconnect between public perception of academia vs. the reality is so immense. Anti-intellectuals on the right and left assume that academia is run by--and full of cushy tenured jobs for--"Marxists." The reality is that universities are run like neoliberal businesses. 1/
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Absolutely. The neoliberal phase of the knowledge factory has been extraordinary effective at purging radicals, and otherwise policing the boundaries of "respectable" scholarship.
This tension is resolved when you realize that there are no longer many leftists in elite universities. The extremist versions of progressive discourse that prevail on campus are perfectly compatible with — and an extension of — the corporate politics students are drafted into.
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Every commodity frontier is a frontier of militarized accumulation.
#worldecology
#capitalocene
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More than ever, the task of explaining the origins of planetary crisis is fundamental to any socialist politics that takes seriously the biospheric crisis. And no, it's not enough to invoke "capitalocene" and move on without its concrete geohistorical argument.
#worldecology
#Capitalocene
: "The emergence of
#capitalism
signaled a quantum leap forward in the scale, scope, and speed of ecological degradation.“
@oikeios
(2003)
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An important contribution to the evolving
#worldecology
conversation. Congratulations to Mike, Sharae, and Stephen!!!!
Struggling right now with health & it's discouraging not to be able to work on new research. But my spirits were lifted today to get author copies of Tracking Capital, co-written with
@shapirostephen
& Michael Niblett. Many thanks to
@RColesworthy
for shepherding it into print!
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For my (many!) Spanish-speaking and -reading comrades: Comida barata y mal clima: del plusvalor al valor negativo en la ecología-mundo capitalista,
Traducción:
@isma_villa3
#ecolog
íamundo
#capitaloceno
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True this! Marx's theory of accumulation joins dialectically a historically-specific theory of wealth (capital) with a theory of class power & socio-ecological metabolism. Framing the climate crisis without these relations is easily coopted.
#capitalocene
#worldecology
Capital accumulation is the problem, and extreme wealth only it’s expression.
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I recommend Nancy Fraser's new Cannibal Capitalism. Important!
This was great, lively, generative conversation today with Nancy Fraser. All thanks go to
@UrbanTheoryLab
and
@UChicagoCEGU
for hosting. Video will be posted.
#worldecology
#capitalocene
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For everyone who just can't stand to read another 8.000 words on Cheap Nature and the climate crisis, here's 22 seconds on how the climate crisis is a class struggle in the web of life.
#capitalocene
#capitaloceno
#worldecology
In a mere 22 seconds (his first 22 seconds on the show, to boot!), Guerrilla History guest/long-time-listener Jason Moore
@oikeios
perfectly summarizes the goal of our show, and why taking the approach we do is crucial to understanding things such as the climate crisis
Listen!
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The thread of socially-necessary unpaid work/energy runs throughout Web of Life, starting in the introduction. It is linked to the critique of Nature as ruling fetish/abstraction, through which empires and capitals redefined most human work as part of Nature, and therefore cheap.
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