Nature in Marx Reconsidered
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization & Environment
- Vol. 10 (2) , 164-183
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0921810697102004
Abstract
Alfred Schmidt's contribution to the ecological interpretation of Marx is reassessed from the standpoint of Marx's value-form analysis of capitalism and Marx's historical and materialist approach to nature under communism. Although Schmidt provides some useful insights into the relations between class exploitation and ecological destruction in Marx's view, his interpretation ultimately lapses into an uncritical determinism similar to that of official (Stalinist) Marxism. This determinism unjustifiably naturalizes capitalism's exploitation of nature while bypassing the systemic basis for an eventual merging of Red and Green anticapitalist movements that is highlighted by Marx's approach.Keywords
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