The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift

by Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster

Book Overview

Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism

In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism's relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery system, leading to an irreparable rift in the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalism's degradation of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583678395
• ISBN13: 9781583678398
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"