Alex Afouxenidis on Nostr: Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. (2016). Had ...
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. (2016).
Had this for sometime forgotten about it and got back to it now. Basic argument is that the the traditional strategy of capitalism to endlessly seek new and cheap resources (human or from nature) appears increasingly strained. Commodity frontiers are becoming harder to open, extraction and production costs rise, and ecological damage increasingly interferes with the very unpaid work on which accumulation depends.
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