Keywords
Nature
World-ecology
Value theory
Marxist ecology
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Abstract
This article presents the critical approaches developed by two trends of the contemporary Marxist ecological thought: the metabolic rift school and the world-ecology, associated to the names of John Bellamy Foster/Paul Burkett and Jason W. Moore, respectively. The text presents, on one side, the considerations of the first trend about a Marxian realism marked by the idea that a universal metabolism contains and is mediated by a social metabolism. On the other side, the article explores the perspective of a Marxian relationality and a singular metabolism, as suggested by the second trend. Finally, the text also presents the mutual critique both of them put forward in the process of becoming increasingly antagonistic.
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