ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates especially on capitalism in the Anthropocene, and outlines some of the most prominent insights of the so-called eco-Marxist and neo-Marxist literature on capitalism and its treatment of its environmental surroundings. It outlines some of the most prominent eco-Marxist critiques and discusses some of the overall structural logics of capitalism. The chapter illustrates the absolute contradiction between capitalism and ecological sustainability in more detail, and complement the argument by criticizing the so-called green or sustainable capitalist doctrine. Capitalism has quite a few identifying characteristics: the first is obviously the production of commodities for an external body. A second one is production of commodities in order to produce, most often private, surplus, which also entails the existence of an institution and abstraction called private property. A third characteristic of capitalism found everywhere around the planet is evidently wage-labour.
