Abstract: A number of contemporary Marxist or Neo-Marxist authors concede how far Marxism is theoretically behind in terms of its understanding of the natural issue. They find it regrettable especially as they think that the Marxian paradigm is perfectly able to integrate the socio-ecological dimension into the ordinary criticism of the capitalist mode of production. As consistent Marxists, they wonder about the historical reasons of this “missed meeting” with political ecology. Some even go back to the founding writings of Marx and Engels, like J. B. Foster who defends the idea that Marx was an ecologist. But this theory does not withstand a critical examination of the way Marx dealt with nature. In retrospect, Marx and most of his epigones appear as theorists who remain true to the Baconian and Cartesian project that fall within the imaginary of modernity; trapped in a progressive vision of history, they couldn’t help but reproduce as a model the system they were radically criticizing.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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