{"product_id":"marxa-tm-s-ecology-materialism-and-nature","title":"Marxâ (Tm)S Ecology: Materialism and Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eProgress 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarx's Ecology \u003c\/b\u003ecovers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.\u003cbr\u003e By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, \u003cb\u003eMarx's Ecology \u003c\/b\u003echallenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster, John Bellamy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Bellamy Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written many books including \u003ci\u003eThe Robbery of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Brett Clark) and \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Deutscher Memorial prize.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515850395922,"sku":"9781583670125","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61008253-2b74-4f70-8fe4-57eb0aabba11.jpg?v=1731013500","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marxa-tm-s-ecology-materialism-and-nature","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}