Book Description: Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or
does it? This startling new account overturns conventional
interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more
rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it
is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the
development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines
Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil
ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He
shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist
society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human
relationship to nature. Marx's Ecology covers many other
thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus,
Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley. By
reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society,
Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the
modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more
lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological c