Climate Change and Marx in the 21st Century, Part I

Bibliographic Data

ID3835002
AuthorsSanjeev Ghotge (independent scholar, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume29
Issue2
Pages29-42
Publication date2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10455752.2018.1467366
OpenAlexW2800431578
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

This paper comes in two parts. Part I begins with an examination of the relationship between Marx’s characterization of the centrality of commodity production to capitalism as a system, its destructive results on Nature, and the global scale of the climate crisis confronting the 21st century. It then moves on to critically examine three models of political economy (Hayekism, Keynesianism and State Socialism). Part II takes the argument forward by critically examining a fourth model, Green Keynesianism, currently being manufactured in response to the crisis of climate change, in order to show the inability of all four models to resolve the existential threat posed to humanity in the 21st century and beyond. We then proceed to posit, as a thought experiment, a fifth model of political economy, Green Socialism, as something now needed in the 21st century and discuss the important building blocks of the future evolution of a coherent system. The paper concludes with a brief mention of both the ends and means that need deliberation if Green Socialism is to be realized

Capitalism · Climate change · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Geology · Oceanography

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