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

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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 todays 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. Capitalisms greatest strengthand the source of its problemsis 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-naturerather than capitalism and natureis key to understanding our predicament and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.