Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe

Eduardo Sá Barreto is an associate professor of economics at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Brazil and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies and Research on Marx and Marxism (NIEP-Marx).

• Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction Part 1: An Ecological Critique of Capitalism 2. Metabolism and the Metabolic Rift 3. The Insatiable Drive for Growth of Capital 4. Technology and the Myth of Dematerialization 5. Environmental Ethics and the Question of the Objectivity of Value 6. Consumption and the Myth of Individual Moderation 7. Market Mechanisms (To Solve Market Maladies) Part 2: Debates in Marxist Ecology 8. On the Division of Ecosocialist Thought into Stages 9. Capitalocene and World-Ecology: A Theoretical Alternative to the Anthropocene and Metabolism? 10. A Supposedly Anti-Ecological and Productivist Marx Part 3: Tactical and Strategic Issues 11. A Crisis to Subordinate All Others: An Overview of Climate Collapse 12. Geological Voluntarism in Ecosocialist Thought 13. Green New Deal and the Enticing Legislative Route 14. An Ecosocialist Critique of Developmentalism and the Energy Transition 15. The Case for a Leninist Ecology 16. Revolutionary Politics in the Face of the Ecological Crisis 17. Epilogue: Senile Capitalism in Pandemic Crisis