![]() ![]() His first book Fossil Capital is a directly on the terrain of Kapital volume 1 and Marx’s Grundrisse. Malm's historical work to date is distinctive for its focus squarely in the classic Marxian period of the 19th century. In the work of many writers in this school, for instance Jason Moore, the notion of the capitalocene takes you back to the early modern period. The epoch of crisis that we are in should really be called the capitalocene. It is the economic system and those who manage and profit from it who do. Though it is true that climate change is human-induced, it is not true that humans in general have that impact. But when transferred from the natural sciences to a more general description of reality, the notion of the anthropocene induces a profound misconception. ![]() It captures the fact that humans now stand alongside glaciers as movers of the earth's surface. The idea of putting humans (Anthropos) at the heart of the story made sense in a natural scientific context. ![]() At its heart is the critique of loose talk about the Anthropocene. Ecological Marxism is a large and multi-stranded school. ![]()
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