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100 1 0 _aBéguin, Victor
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245 0 0 _aAn hypothesis on the genesis of Marx’s ecological thought
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520 _aThis article acknowledges the existence of Marx’s ecology in his Notebooks on agriculture. Its purpose is to examine the reasons why Marx became interested, from 1865 onwards, in the destruction of natural resources brought about by their capitalist management, whereas he had hardly shown any interest in the issue until then. The proposed hypothesis, based on a careful reading of Liebig’s excerpts from the 1865-1866 Notebook on agriculture (recently published in volume IV/18 of the MEGA②), is that Liebig’s depiction of the exploitation of natural resources by modern agriculture offers a striking parallel with the analysis of the exploitation of labour-power in the capitalist production process articulated by Marx in book I of Capital. The article presents several textual proofs for this parallel, and argues that it offers a plausible explanation for Marx’s sudden interest in ecology.
786 0 _nActuel Marx | o 71 | 1 | 2022-02-14 | p. 157-174 | 0994-4524
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-actuel-marx-2022-1-page-157?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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