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

Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In <i>Capitalism in the Web of Life</i> 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. <i>Capitalism in the Web of Life</i> shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism <i>and</i> nature—is key to understanding our predicament and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.