With the global economic crisis being
anything but over, there are continuing struggles over how to respond to
economic stagnation. While the right continues to push for austerity and
neo-liberal restructuring and a new extreme right combines this with blaming
migrants for economic woes, the left envisages a new role for the state in
reviving economic fortunes. As different as these positions are, what they have
all in common, though, is this view of nature as an external resource. In his
fascinating book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the
Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), Jason Moore critically engages with
this understanding and contrasts it with a dialectical position emphasising the
internal relations between humans and nature. In this blog post, I will provide
an overview of some of the key aspects of Moore’s argument.
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