Marx's treatment of natural conditions possesses an inner logic, coherence, and analytical power which has not been previously recognized

ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Part I Nature and Historical Materialism1. Requirements of a Social Ecology 172. Nature, Labor, and Production 253. The Natural Basis of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor 334. Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces 49Part II Nature and Capitalism5. Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production 576. Capital's "Free Appropriation" of Natural andSocial Conditions 697. Capitalism and Nature: A Value-Form Approach 798. Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms ofMarx's Value Analysis 999. Capitalism and Environmental Crisis 10710. Marx's Working-Day Analysis and Environmental Crisis 133Part III Nature and Communism11. Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism 14712. Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits 17513. Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle 19914. Nature and Associated Production 223Notes 259References 297Index 309