If you haven't cracked open a book on Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels since you were in college, this is as good a place to start as any. There's been a cottage industry in secondary works devoted to scrutinizing Marx's extensive and largely unpublished notebooks, a running compendium of his thoughts and pet theories. Author Kohei Saito mines them for any indications of what the father of socialism might have written on the subject of Nature and capital's relationship to it. Unsurprisingly, it is as manipulative and exploitive of it as it is of Labor. The reader's joy derives from seeing how Saito, who personally translated this English version of the original published in German, threads the needle from Das Kapital to Feuerbach and beyond.

Arrived with a different cover than pictured, made from some kind of unpleasant rubbery plastic material. Typesetting was weird and cramped, with really narrow margins. I really physically unappealing book.

L'écologisme de Marx enfin rendu indiscutable. La rupture métabolique d'avec la nature apparaît clairement comme une redoutable promesse du capitalisme, identifiée par Marx il y a plus de 150 ans. S'il avait vécu de nos jours, Marx se soucierait de promouvoir la permaculture et le biorégionalisme. Une longue et intéressante discussion de l'évolution de l'agronomie, telle qu'il l'a étudiée sur plus de 15 ans, occupe la partie centrale du livre. Ce livre devrait être perçu comme une lecture indispensable chez tous ceux qui viennent aux études environnementales selon une trajectoire intellectuelle ou académique dominée par les sciences naturelles.

O trabalho de Kohei Saito é de fundamental importância para o aprofundamento da compreensão da dimensão ecológica do pensamento de Marx. Com este trabalho, o autor se insere em uma tradição bibliográfica já consolidada e capitaneada por nomes como Paul Burkett , John B. Foster, Ian Angus e Fred Magdoff, dentre outros. Saito oferece uma perspectiva indispensável sobre construção inacabada da crítica da economia política de Marx, apontando para a contradição principal do capitalismo: a perturbação do intercâmbio metabólico entre homem e natureza.

Danke! Gern wieder! Ist auch auf Deutsch erschienen!