“Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” most extensive study to date: Workers’ Liberty

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
308 pp, $29 pbk, ISBN 9781583676400
By Kohei Saito

Reviewed by Paul Hampton

“Marx’s theory of metabolism is the starting point for explaining how capitalism generates ecological problems through the insatiable drive for capital accumulation. ¶ Kohei Saito’s book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism, is the most extensive study to date of the roots of Marx’s ecology. ¶ Saito exhaustively combs through Marx’s published works, as well as his excerpt notebooks. The book draws out the dialogue between Marx and natural scientists of his epoch. It successfully explains the influence of natural science on Marx, but also how Marx developed new innovations as a result of this reading. Saito convincingly demonstrates the origins of Marx’s metabolic theory….”

Read the review at Workers’ Liberty: Reason in Revolt, Oct. 30, 2019