On the latest episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Raj Patel and Jason Moore trace the relationship between capital and the environment through seven cheap things: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives.
Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order.
McKenzie Wark considers the question "Why Marx now?" through a close reading of one of the Communist Manifesto's most famous lines.Â
One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.
Can we conceive of revolutions in the name of climate justice, and if so, what do they look like?
Will we see the end of cheap, commodified nature, or will capitalism be able to exploit ongoing crises to generate a fresh round of accumulation?
In an interview, Andreas Malm describes how he came to study ecology and considers the prospects for the climate movement.Â
Kristin Ross describes the history behind two territorial struggles in Europe and examines their political consequences.Â
Joan MartĂnez Alier, Stefania Barca, Roberto Sciarelli, Salvatore Engel Di Mauro, Marica Di Pierri and A Sud, and Emanuele Leonardi reflect on the life and work of James O'Connor.Â
Lifting the ban on offshore drilling is one of the most significant environmental decisions yet taken by the Trump administration.
2017 demonstrated that climate chaos is happening here and now rather than in some distant future.
Peter Linebaugh's address to the House of Commons on the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest.Â