Neomarxist approaches to environmental crisis and sustainable development
This paper discusses two neomarxist theories of ecological crises - theory of metabolic rift and the second contradiction of capitalism theory. The goal of the paper is to present two critical theories and to confront them so similarities, differences, flaws and contributions of those theor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Sociologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0038-0318/2015/0038-03181503421J.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper discusses two neomarxist theories of ecological crises - theory of
metabolic rift and the second contradiction of capitalism theory. The goal of
the paper is to present two critical theories and to confront them so
similarities, differences, flaws and contributions of those theories can be
identified. In the first part of the paper author classifies different
approaches to ecological crisis and sustainable development in order to
relate two neomarxist theories to other approaches to the topic. In the
second part, author discusses theory of metabolic rift, which is a heuristic
analysis of Marx’s original work. In other words, this theory represents a
new reading of the classic and tries to integrate it’s new findings about
envirnmental side of Marx’s thought into a contemporary marxist theory. Third
part of the paper is reserved for the second contradiction of capitalism, a
neomarxist theory of economic crisis which can be applied as a theory of
ecological crisis. Two theories are then confronted after which similarities
and differences between them are pointed out. The author concludes the paper
by stressing out the flaws and scientific contributions of the two theories. |
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| ISSN: | 0038-0318 2406-0712 |