The Robbery of Nature

Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland), Bill Hopwood is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, 2020, Monthly Review Capitalist production…only develops … by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker. Marx, Capital The Robbery of Nature […]

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Review: Marx in the Anthropocene

Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies since its 2020 release. Saito’s unambiguous message that capitalism is to blame for the environmental crisis and that we must overthrow […]

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Marx, the ‘Metabolic Rift’ and Capitalism’s Assault on Nature

Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today. In recent years millions of young and working-class people have engaged in protests against […]

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Why the Climate Crisis is a Capitalist Crisis

Conor Payne and Chris Stewart are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution. Too often, however, this discussion lacks sufficient class or anti-capitalist content, […]

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