Karl Marx's ecosocialism : capitalism, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy / Kohei Saito.

Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Part I: Ecology and Economy --
1. Alienation of Nature as the Emergence of the Modern --
2. Metabolism of Political Economy --
3. Capital as a Theory of Metabolism --
Part II: Marx's Ecology and the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe --
4. Liebig and Capital --
5. Fertilizer against Robbery Agriculture? --
6. Marx's Ecology after 1868 --
7. Conclusion --
8. Notes --
9. Index.

Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a &;Promethean.&; According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and create a new world of fulfillment and abundance&;a world where nature is mastered, not by anarchic capitalism, but by a planned socialist economy. Understandably, this perspective has come under sharp attack, not only from mainstream environmentalists but also from ecosocialists, many of whom reject Marx outright.