Among environmentalists, a deep disillusionment with Marxism is common.
The critiques are by now familiar: Marxism’s commitment to the
unfettered development of the forces of production is attached to the
idea of human domination over nature. Malm, as we will see, comes out of
a very different tradition of Marxism, and one that has done much to
demonstrate that Marx - unlike most of his 20th century readers - was an
ecological thinker. Malm extends the mainly theoretical and philological
work of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, and more recently Kohei
Saito^2
<https://viewpointmag.com/2021/04/14/the-kaleidoscope-of-catastrophe-on-the-clarities-and-blind-spots-of-andreas-malm/#f+13105+1+2>,
into a more empirical engagement with contemporary ecological problems,
profused with a profound sense of political urgency.^3
<https://viewpointmag.com/2021/04/14/the-kaleidoscope-of-catastrophe-on-the-clarities-and-blind-spots-of-andreas-malm/#f+13105+1+3>
https://viewpointmag.com/2021/04/14/the-kaleidoscope-of-catastrophe-on-the-clarities-and-blind-spots-of-andreas-malm/
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