Capitalism in the Web of Life

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

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The relationship between capital and ecology in the longue durée

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 today’s 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. Capitalism’s greatest strength—and the source of its problems—is 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-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.

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  • If nothing else, the climate crisis demonstrates that the history of capitalism is a thoroughly ‘environmental’ one. This energizing book proposes an inventive framework for making sense of that past, and for orienting ourselves as we get down to the business of changing the future.

    Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
  • Capitalism in the Web of Life seeks to analyze the root cause of this impasse for environmentalism: the widely-shared view that ‘the environment’ is a separate and unique part of existence outside of capitalism that capitalism devalues.

    New Inquiry
  • The achievement of Moore’s book is to move past a metaphysical concept of nature towards an historical one…. Such a rich historical understanding of world-ecological regimes is going to be of vital importance.

    McKenzie WarkPublic Seminar