The adventure of capital with nature: from the metabolic rift to the value theory of nature

The Socio-ecological Question, the Global Environmental Justice Movement and Anti-systemic Environmentalism

“…The socio-ecological contradictions of the expansion and deepening of capitalist accumulation began to be recognized in various specific ways by eco-Marxism (Burkett 1999;Foster 1999;Gorz 1994;Moore 2003Moore , 2017O'Connor 1988). Yet, Eco-Marxism's approach to this problem through Marx's concept of "the metabolic rift" (Burkett 1999;Foster 1999) (1988) called the "second contradiction of capitalism" as already immanent in the "first" contradiction between capital and labor (Schneider and McMichael 2010;Taşdemir Yaşın 2017). As such, it cannot reveal and manifest the socio-historical distinctiveness of the socio-ecological question.…”