ABSTRACT
For many years, environmentalists and even self-proclaimed Marxists believed that Marx held a hyper-industrialist support for the absolute domination of society over nature without recognition of any natural limits. Such a view is no longer defensible as recent studies have demonstrated that Marx was actually an ecosocialist. Inspired by the recent radicalization of environmental movements, Marxism continues to develop an ecological critique of capitalism as well as to envision a system change in order to establish a sustainable society beyond capitalism. One of the central concepts is “metabolic rift.” Furthermore, through the new collected works of Marx and Engels, the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, Marx’s notebooks are available for the first time and reveal that in his late years, Marx attempted to substantiate his ecological critique as an essential component of his critique of capitalism.
