The End - Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis

A radical new interpretation of Marxism provides new insights into our planetary crisis by reading Karl Marx alongside Charles Darwin.

List of contents

PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY
1. Marx before Darwin
2. Darwin and the destruction of teleology
3. Marx after Darwin

PART II: READING CAPITAL AS NATURAL HISTORY
4. Labor, nature, and technology
5. From population to commodity fetishism

PART III: ELABORATIONS OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY
6. A natural history of capitalism
7. Philosophical implications of Marxian natural history
8. Prospect of an end

About the author

Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.

Product details

• Authors: Wainwright Joel
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.11.2025
• EAN: 9781804299418
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-941-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 200 g
• Illustrations: 10 Figures
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, General & world history, Environmental Economics, Social impact of environmental issues, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Marxism & Communism, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism