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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

The double register of Cheap Nature #worldecology #capitalocene

Instituto Latinoamericano de Terraformación

@terraforminglat

3 years

Jason Moore: For capitalism, Nature is “cheap”.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

I gave a talk on climate justice earlier this year to a European NGO. They asked, "What's the most practical demand you can suggest?" Me: Demand the withdrawal of US and European armies, shut down the bases, everywhere in the South. Them: No, really. What do you suggest?

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Jason W. Moore

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11 months

So you want to be a Marxist? Get used to liberals calling you a reactionary and Marxists calling you a liberal.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

I am continually struck by "critical" scholars invoking the #anthropocene in a very uncritical way. Geology is the natural science discipline most directly tied to imperialism & extractivism. Yes, one can appropriate concepts, but not without qualification. #capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

10 months

Raymond Williams, on Socialism and Ecology. Always worth re-reading. Thanks to the great comrades at @NewSocialistNS for making it available.

Socialism and Ecology

by Raymond Williams // Only a particular sort of socialism can make the necessary junction between ecology and the satisfaction of needs.

newsocialist.org.uk

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

9 months

This is what happens when we allow capital to run academic journals. Fuck them. Solidarity to all who are forging ahead with non-corporate journals. Seize the means of intellectual production!

Zachary Levenson

@grundrza

9 months

The coup at Theory & Society is complete. After the ed board resigned, the 2 editors handpicked by Springer installed a new board entirely comprised of cognitive scientists, social psychologists, org sociologists, sociobiologists, b school profs, & folks into evolutionary theory

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

If you are denouncing "European colonialism" & cognates without ever joining that critique to the class dynamics of imperialism & imperialist accumulation, you are not making a radical argument. You are a making a bourgeois nationalist argument.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

Teaching Federici's 1970s essays today. Surprisingly few of Federici's fans today have any interest in her class struggle analysis of gendered work, capital accumulation, and proletarian unity under conditions of bourgeois naturalism. Maybe we could change that? #worldecology

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

One of the most important Marxist books of the 20th century. And my inspiration for grasping capitalism as #worldecology .

Vincent Mosco

@Vmosco

1 year

It feels like there are two stories topping the news today--the strikes in Hollywood and the fight over AI. This book, written fifty years ago, is one of the best guides to understanding both.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

10 months

Rest in power, Antonio Negri. Our argument in #worldecology has been to outline how capitalism seeks to create a planetary factory of power, profit and life. #capitalocene #capitaloceno

marc liam

@vellichoro

10 months

@oikeios "Slowly the factory ceased to exist. The whole society became a factory." - Antonio Negri

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

My dear comrade and co-author, @_RajPatel has penned an eloquent and lucid essay on land in the capitalist #worldecology . As ever, brilliant and on point!

(PDF) Land in World-Ecology Perspectives

PDF | While theorists of international relations have generally understood land as a strategic resource under the purview of nation-states, a range of... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

Saying climate change is #anthropogenic reproduces late capitalism's big lie. The climate crisis is #capitalogenic . #capitalocene

marc liam

@vellichoro

1 year

@rahmstorf “It turns out that saying "Humans did it!" may obscure as much as it clarifies. A world of political difference lies between saying "Humans did it!" - and saying "Some humans did it!"” - @oikeios #Capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

11 months

The degradation of Marxist critique: "Moore [is]... indebted to [Neil] Smith in arguing that nature is in fact something produced by capital, and that in reality nature does not exist as something external to human society." My view is precisely NOT this

Marx and the Climate Crisis #1: Marx and Nature by Sean O’Brien — the87press

This four-part lecture series asks what we can learn from Marx about the climate crisis: its origins, its impacts, and what possible solutions we might seek in the face of increasingly inadequate...

www.the87press.co.uk

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

6 months

This is correct. The climate crisis is 100 percent driven by the imperialist bourgeoisie and its commitment to endless accumulation. #capitalocene

Michel Bauwens

@mbauwens

6 months

Jason Moore is a interesting ecological theorist, though in fact, I really dispute the premise that the ecological crisis can be blamed solely on the current capitalist system: * Capitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis - Jason W. Moore...

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

After witnessing many academic vulgarizations of the Cheap Nature thesis, I thought I'd make a public service announcement: the theory of Cheap Nature is a theory of class exploitation in the web of life. Class. Exploitation. The point is we need to abolish these. #worldecology

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 months

I'm still fond of this essay, and surprised that "ecological" Marxism remains so uninterested in the Transition Debate -- not only a debate over capitalist origins but over the possibilities for socialism #worldecology . Here's an easy link:

(PDF) Nature and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

PDF | An epochal transformation of nature-society relations was inscribed in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This article advances three... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

2 months

#Capitalocene : "The emergence of #capitalism signaled a quantum leap forward in the scale, scope, and speed of ecological degradation.“ @oikeios (2003)

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

Just a public service announcement: anthropocene is not a historical concept, it's an ideological one that masquerades as geohistory. #worldecology

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

This was great, lively, generative conversation today with Nancy Fraser. All thanks go to @UrbanTheoryLab and @UChicagoCEGU for hosting. Video will be posted. #worldecology #capitalocene

UChicago CEGU

@UChicagoCEGU

2 years

Today at noon, Nancy Fraser and Jason W. Moore join Aaron Jakes for "Capitalism's Natures and the Climate Crisis." Friday, February 10, 12:00pm CT Room 142, 1155 E. 60th St. Register here: @oikeios @aaronjakes @UChicagoSSD

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

9 months

Rest in power, Paul Burkett. Marx and Nature is a classic, and deeply influential to my thinking of capitalism as #worldecology .

David Fields

@ProfDavidFields

9 months

RIP, Paul Burkett. In addition to his invaluable work on inflation, he is best known for his book “Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective”, which argued against the assumption that Marx favored relentless industry over environmental sustainability.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

Anticommunists tend to lack imagination even with their insults. "Apologist for" has been a hallmark of redbaiters since the 1920s.

Mickey Moosenhauer

@nihil_evadere

1 year

Anyone who’s retwted this with no hostile comment for Grayzone (or Marcetic) - check the list - is obvs some degree of apologist for Putin, Press TV (the IRGC, Iran), and Bashar al-Assad… Eg, @donaldp1917 , @oikeios , along with the usual pretend left, tankies, and Brexiteers…

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 month

The end of Cheap Nature.

Matt Huber

@Matthuber78

1 month

Hard to overstate how bold this claim (or thesis?) is — that we’re now essentially entering a permanent inflationary economy due to “ecological costs.” 🧵(1/6)

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

10 months

Totally correct. The #anthropocene is a cultural and ideological claim that climate change is made by Man, not capital. It is a species of climate denialism = a denial of the real, historical causes of climate crisis. #capitaloceno #capitalocene

Omar Montoya Suárez

@OmarMontoyaSua1

1 year

El concepto Antropoceno, como "ilusión peligrosa"( @oikeios ), es utilizado para negar la crisis climática como lucha de clases, justificar la expoliación de la naturaleza y negar la importancia de las luchas sociales y políticas en la recomposición del metabolismo social.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

5 months

The knowledge factory and the accumulation of capital.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 month

Just a public service announcement to everyone writing on the #capitalocene . This is _not_ an alternative geological periodization. It is a geohistorical mode of critique (of Man/Nature thinking) & a gateway to narrating capitalism as a #worldecology of power, profit & life. 1/2

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

5 months

Environmentalism has long been a project of the rich and powerful. Here's one cut at explaining its American lineage. #worldecology

The Baffler

@thebafflermag

5 months

In the 1960s, it seemed like mainstream environmentalism might take a radical course. But as @oikeios writes, the movement quickly fell under the sway of benign reformism. It’s been stuck there ever since.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

11 months

Solidarity with the great @ClareDalyMEP and with Palestinians everywhere.

sarah

@sahouraxo

11 months

Long live the Irish 🔥

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

9 months

Seize the means of intellectual production.

Andrew J Douglas

@ajd_theory

9 months

Sold. They had me at “In this essay, we argue for administrative abolition, that is, the elimination of all college presidents, provosts, deans and other top level administrators...”

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

10 months

Capital-denialism is climate change denialism. On #capitalogenic climate crisis and the myth of anthropogenesis. #capitalocene

(PDF) On Capitalogenic Climate Crisis: Unthinking Man, Nature & the Anthropocene, and Why It...

PDF | On one thing, the would-be masters of the universe agree: it’s not our fault. From the IPCC to the World Economic Forum to Wall Street, the lords... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

6 months

I am impressed by the contortions performed by "critical" academics to avoid the word, class, in mentions of the #capitalocene . No, it does not mean an "economic system"; it means the class struggle in the web of life. #worldecology

(PDF) Waste in the Limits to Capital: How Capitalism Lays Waste to the Web of Life, and Why It...

PDF | For nearly a century, the Environmental Imaginary has been ob-sessed with resource scarcity. But what if the twenty-first century’s pivotal... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

3 years

Important @adam_tooze . He's wrong however about why the #capitalocene hasn't caught on. It's not that it's so "ugly" -- more or less than the ungainly anthropocene? -- it's that everything about Environmentalist thought tells us NOT to "name the system."

Economic Crisis in the Anthropocene | by Adam Tooze & Elmira Bayrasli - Project Syndicate

Adam Tooze & Elmira Bayrasli consider what the pandemic should teach us about managing a new era of crises.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

3 months

The #capitalocene is not an alternative to the anthropocene. Or any Cene. It's a mockery of the absurd claim that history is a primordial conflict between Man And Nature. As Engels summarized: labor created man. Capitalism is a class struggle in the web of life.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

6 months

Solidarity with Jodi Dean! Be warned. The crackdown on free speech in the knowledge factory is only beginning.

Kai Heron

@KaiHeron

6 months

Please sign and circulate this letter in support of Jodi Dean.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

If there was a decisive period of capitalist technical change (as mechanization), it is either 1870s-1910s or 1450-1600 & precisely not "the" Industrial Revolution (1790s-1840s). Too many Marxists have confused Marx's prescience about early large-scale industry with the reality.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

The climate crisis is not anthropogenic, it's capitalogenic. #capitaloceno #capitalocene

marc liam

@vellichoro

1 year

@WilliamJRipple @ProfSteveKeen “the phrase anthropogenic climate change is a special brand of blaming the victims of exploitation, violence, and poverty. A more nearly accurate alternative? Ours is an era of capitalogenic climate crisis.” - @oikeios #Capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

11 months

Grades. The cultural logic of the managerial class.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

11 months

I find it *insane* that the Ivy League does crazy grade inflation and — seeing that — so many people at non-Ivies insist on grading “rigorously,” thereby re-enforcing the pre-existing opinion of employers that elite uni kids are geniuses (he’s a 4.0!) and state school kids idiots

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

5 months

Population. The first refuge of the Environmentalism of the Rich.

Matt Huber

@Matthuber78

5 months

The misanthropy of carbon footprint ideology.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

For my Portuguese-speaking and -reading comrades, here's my essay on the sugar commodity frontier in the rise of capitalism: O açúcar e a expansão da economia-mundo na era moderna: fronteiras da mercadoria, transformação ecológica e industrialização

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

I long for the day when people who say "we need a different economic model" also say "we need a democratic alternative to the bourgeoisie's biospheric dictatorship." The climate crisis is the result, and terrain, of class politics in the web of life #worldecology #capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

6 months

Precisely! the invocation of "natural law" -- from Locke to Malthus to Galton to Hardin to the Anthropocene -- is a staple of ruling class ideology. Hard to believe that most Marxists have missed the point: Nature is the most dangerous word in the bourgeois lexicon. #capitalocene

Andrew Flachs

@DrFlachsophone

6 months

This is my go-to for political ecology as a concept: any time someone says something is simply a force of nature, they’re masking a system of power

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

4 years

Capitalist anthropocentrism has never been about human supremacy; always about the supremacy of some humans. #capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

This is an important turn of events from an important scholar central to the #anthropocene discussions. Erle Ellis's statement is worth reading.

Erle Ellis (艾尔青)

@erleellis

1 year

Why I Resigned from the Anthropocene Working Group Today.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

11 months

Worthwhile video. The absence of anti-imperialist critique - mirroring Malm's fossil capital concept - is worth debating. From the plantation & its proletariat flowed the capital, markets & materials necessary for early 19c industrialization. #capitalocene

Why Capitalism is Killing Us

Right now, the first 500 people to use my link will get a one month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/ourchangingclimate1023Support OCC via Patreon: h...

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

This is 100 percent correct. If I may add a comradely amendment, the #anthropocene is all the more pernicious for its Man vs Nature thinking, replicating in academic terms the ideological overstructure of modern imperialism and its Civilizing Projects #capitalocene #worldecology

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Jason W. Moore

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1 year

Capitalism is not a subset of "man in general" (M&E, 1848). "Man in general" is a fetish, and a practical instrument of bourgeois rule since 1492. "Humanity" is not a historical actor: specific groups, classes, institutions, states are historical actors. #capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

No civilization has organized through the visual more than capitalism. Its capacity to image, survey & map planetary ecologies of every kind has been central to #capitalogenic climate change: "The Promethean Gaze, from Mercator to the Space Age."

(PDF) Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Marble: Capitalism, Nature and the Promethean Gaze, from...

PDF | No civilization has organized through the visual more than capitalism. Its capacity to image, survey, and map planetary ecologies of every kind... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

5 months

Given the poverty of history and theory around accumulation crisis in "ecological" Marxism, this intervention is useful #worldecology :

Value Theory and the Schism in Eco-Marxism

In the eco-socialist movement there have been frequent complaints that Marx’s value theory, with its central emphasis on labour-time, is fatally flawed and irrelevant. It seems to discount th…

readingsofcapital.com

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

3 years

The climate crisis is a class struggle. #capitalocene

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

"The emergent patterns of environmental change are also patterns of class formation and imperialism." In this week's @AWorldtoWinPod , Jason W. Moore ( @oikeios ) speaks to @graceblakeley about capitalism and climate breakdown. 🔥

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

4 years

Why is the #capitalocene NOT an "ecocene"? Because the circuit of capital depends on politically-mediated conditions of re/production and sources of Cheap Nature. Every great wave of capital accumulation depends on a "new" imperialism. #worldecology

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

Notice the ideological mission creep of the phrase "Global North." Unless referring to the aggregation of rich countries in a strictly distributional way, I've resolved to speak of the "imperialist countries" (or states, or powers).

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

It's not "humanity" that's breaking the climate = #capitalogenic not anthropogenic! #capitalocene

‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 month

The eco-industrial complex -- of which mass environmentalism has been a central node since the 1970s -- is an enemy of the working class. This is a historical fact. The sooner the left understands this, the greater the clarity around the political tasks of the moment.

Shahram Azhar

@ShahramAzhar

1 month

This is precisely the point that @oikeios has been making in his work. The political imaginaries of “Green Thought” and “environmentalism” fail to account for the reinforcing dialectic between the class struggle and the “climate movement”. #Capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

Important intervention. There are not "converging" crises, but manifold expressions of a singular crisis: of capitalism as a #worldecology of power, profit & life. #capitalocene

Developing Economics

@CriticalDev

2 years

NEW POST: Güney Işıkara challenges ideas floating around on the left - such as ‘polycrisis’ and ‘overlapping emergencies’ - for serving to conceal the underlying culprit that gives rise to global challenges, namely the totality of capitalist relations. 🔥

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

A recent essay, with @gonzosociology , on why the #anthropocene is fundamental to bourgeois ideology, and how its flight from history disables climate justice politics: "Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the #Capitalocene "

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1 year

@BizarrelyCoca American military power - overt & covert - has been the bulwark of worldwide reaction since '47. (Truman Doctrine, globalizing the Monroe Doctrine.) Its task has been to ensure American geopolitical hegemony & world accumulation. Ultimately about Cheap Nature in v. broad strokes

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@oikeios

3 months

Collapse is a neo-Malthusian trope. Crisis? Sure. #capitalocene #capitaloceno

Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

3 months

“We are frequently warned of the alleged dangers of civilizational ‘ #collapse ’. But is the ‘collapse’ of #capitalism – a #civilization that plunges more than a third of its population into malnutrition – really something to be feared? Historical experience suggests not." @oikeios

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

This was a lively and generative dialogue. I think Nancy Fraser and I start to really tease out our (comradely) differences towards the end. #capitalocene #capitaloceno #worldecology

UChicago CEGU

@UChicagoCEGU

2 years

Video is now available from "Capitalism's Natures and the Climate Crisis," CEGU's February panel event with Nancy Fraser and Jason W. Moore, moderated by Aaron Jakes and introduced by Neil Brenner: @oikeios @aaronjakes @UrbanTheoryLab @UChicagoSSD

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1 year

We live in times of anthropogenic climate crisis. Or do we? This essay shows how “humanity” is a thoroughly modern fetish, forged in the bloodbath of militarized accumulation and conquest after 1492: "Our #Capitalogenic World" #capitalocene #worldecology

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3 years

Blow up a pipeline and one can slow global warming for a day or week; abolish the relations of power, profit and life that made the pipeline, and planetary justice becomes possible.

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@oikeios

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Yes indeed, capitalism was a biogeological force from the beginning. This was driven by the class dynamics of early modern imperialism and its insatiable drive for Cheap Labor, as a rich historiography now demonstrates. #worldecology Here's one summary:

(PDF) EMPIRE, CLASS AND THE ORIGINS OF PLANETARY CRISIS: THE TRANSITION DEBATE IN THE WEB OF LIFE

PDF | We are discovering in the era of climate crisis that the Transition Debate is a debate over the origins and crisis tendencies of capitalism in the... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

Tiger King -- marxistvaderist.bsky.social

@MarxistVaderist

2 months

Listening to a podcast recently with geographer Jason Moore, I got reminded that the genocides of the indigenous of the Americas was so catastrophic that it changed the global climate A ghastly reminder of how everything is connected... #AcademicChatter

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@oikeios

11 months

Creeping totalitarianism.

Naomi Klein

@NaomiAKlein

11 months

Columbia University has just set a terrible and dangerous precedent. Speaking out in anguish against war crimes is what we should all be doing. And yes, it will break a few rules. Students should not be punished and silenced for acting based on their conscience.

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A dramatic new wave of academic repression is in play. The only effective countertendency is a broad-based academic labor movement. Not sufficient, but necessary for the struggles ahead.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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22 days

The first tenured professor fired for pro-Palestine speech is JEWISH. In case anyone still thinks this Zionism shit is about protecting Jews.

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6 months

To paraphrase the great Claudia von Werlhof: Nature became everything the bourgeoisie did not wish to pay for.

Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

6 months

Precisely! the invocation of "natural law" -- from Locke to Malthus to Galton to Hardin to the Anthropocene -- is a staple of ruling class ideology. Hard to believe that most Marxists have missed the point: Nature is the most dangerous word in the bourgeois lexicon. #capitalocene

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4 years

How is it that so many want to use #capitalocene but cleanse it of its class struggle analytic -- on display in very different ways in my argument and Malm's? Capitalism without class struggle is a kind of institutionalist-demographic-market construct.

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1 month

Welcome to the military industrial academic complex.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

I love this quote from The German Ideology: "the means of mental production." The critique of ideology has fallen out of favor, and with it, the left's willingness to pursue class analyses of the ideological/intellectual nexus. #worldecology

Midwestern Marx

@MidwesternMarx

1 year

More than a century ago Karl Marx observed that those who control the material means of production also control the mental means of production. So I’m every epoch the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class. -Michael Parenti

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

28 days

I begin every semester with Freire. Rest in power, comrade!

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores

@Jairo_I_Funez

29 days

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there��s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.

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@oikeios

3 years

This connection is so crucial. Ignored on the one hand (too often) by Marxists, and on the other hand (too often) by eco-feminists, etc., is the basic connection: socially necessary labor-time stands on the pedestal of socially necessary unpaid work. #worldecology

Alex Heffron

@AlexHeffron20

3 years

This exploitation of waged labour, non-waged household labour and our ecology enables a lower minimum wage (for those that qualify) and subsidises business, thus allowing greater profits. As @oikeios puts it:

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@oikeios

25 days

Rest in power, comrade Jameson.

Panagiotis Sotiris

@panagsotiris

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Historical Materialism is deeply grieved by the passing of the Marxist intellectual giant, philosopher and cultural critic Fredric Jameson at the age of 90. Jameson’s work fundamentally reshaped our understanding of culture, politics and aesthetics,

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Militarized accumulation is imperialism in the web of life #capitalocene #capitaloceno

Climate Vanguard

@climate_vguard

1 year

This was no natural disaster. Colonialism was the powder keg and the spark of this climate massacre 🧵 (1/10)

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2 years

Capitalism grows more toxic as the last frontiers of Cheap Nature are enclosed. The whole world becomes a sacrifice zone. #capitalocene #worldecology

Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

2 years

"An investigation by conservationists has found #evidence that deep-seabed #mining of rare minerals could cause 'extensive and irreversible' damage to the planet." #BiodiversityCrisis #Capitalocene #Wasteocene

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@oikeios

4 years

The #capitalocene without imperialism is like a fish without water.

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@oikeios

2 years

For those in Chicago this early February, Nancy Fraser and I in conversation: #worldecology #capitalocene #capitaloceno

Capitalism's Natures and the Climate Crisis

with Nancy Fraser (The New School) and Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University), moderated by Aaron Jakes (University of Chicago)

www.eventbrite.com

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 months

Here I unpack a socialist perspective on climate doomism, the global police state, and the Environmentalism of the Rich in the epochal crisis of capitalism. #worldecology #capitalocene

Çağrı İdiman

@CagrIdiman

2 months

Listen to Jason Moore @oikeios , read Jason Moore… Don’t be a part of the climate academic-industrial complex!

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@oikeios

2 months

This is important. Capitalism's class metabolism is reproduced through militarized accumulation. #capitaloceno #capitalocene

aprudy

@aprudy

2 months

The general silence on the military (and colonialism) in Foster's metabolic rift and Huber's ecological modernization is one (among a good number of) major reason(s) why they are wildly insufficient for an environmental Marxist politics...

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

5 months

Can't be said often enough. Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

Jacobin

@jacobin

5 months

Capitalists are sometimes accommodating of electoral democracy. But at no point in history have capitalists ever accepted the outcome of elections that might threaten capitalist property relations.

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@oikeios

4 years

Can we stop confusing abstraction/specificity with geographical scale? The solar system is not more abstract than the Earth. Historical capitalism is not more abstract than work in an Amazon 'fulfillment center.' These are distinct geographies with distinct histories.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

3 years

Andreas Malm can't resist calling me a poststructuralist, which suggests to me that he understands neither my work nor poststructuralism.

Destroying the Means of Planetary Destruction: Richard Seymour in Conversation with Andreas Malm

In urgent times comes the urgent necessity of new hedonism, and of inflicting losses on our enemies, of revelling in certain fires.

salvage.zone

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

15 days

For the American Empire, the whole world is a potential sacrifice zone.

Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

15 days

Yeah I think we have to drop idea that crisis containment was core logic of Biden admin. This is an attempt at controlled demolition … closer to what they are doing to world economy and v China. Opportunistic for sure eg Ukraine, but fundamentally revisionist.

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@oikeios

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The demise of bourgeois democracy and the end of Cheap Nature are dialectically bound.

Klaus Feldmann

@feldmann_k

9 days

Without fossil energy, not only would "democracy" or the system of government be radically different, but entire states and societies would be different - in a way that we cannot even imagine.

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@oikeios

2 years

I taught Neil Smith's Uneven Development yesterday. All those folks who called him a social constructionist might benefit from another (attentive) reading.

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@oikeios

5 years

File under unexpected:)

elliot sperber

@elliot_sperber

5 years

Big @oikeios fan at #climatestrikenyc

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@oikeios

10 months

Useful intervention from Jason Hickel @jasonhickel and Guddi Singh on #capitalogenic disease.

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@oikeios

6 months

Nothing to see here. Just a Germany in the thick of rearmament and the suppression of political speech.

Alex Callinicos

@alex_callinicos

6 months

Congratulations, @yanisvaroufakis - they’ve honoured you. The BND - whose ex-chief was exposed for far-right politics - probably put you their black book when you were challenging Schäuble in 2015.

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

1 year

Rest in power.

Sherilyn MacGregor

@dr_smacgregor

1 year

RiP Professor Maria Mies (1931-2023): a giant of ecofeminist political economy on whose shoulders I, alongside many others, am proud to stand. We will do justice to her work.

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@oikeios

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Cheap Nature = the worldwide class struggle in the web of life. #worldecology

Alberto Coronel 🌍

@AlbertoCoronelT

1 month

Es decir, el MSC es fisiológicamente dependiente de lo que Raj Patel y Jason W. Moore denominaron 7 NATURALEZAS BARATAS: - Naturalezas - Trabajo - Cuidados - Alimentos - Vidas - Energía - Dinero La enumeración puede ser discutible, pero el enfoque no. ¿Por qué?

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@oikeios

1 year

MR has trouble saying the obvious here: the "trigger" is not "human action" but #capitalogenic extinction. The #capitalocene is a #necrocene .

Monthly Review

@monthly_review

1 year

In five centuries, human actions have triggered a surge of genus extinctions that would otherwise have taken 18,000 years to accumulate—what the paper calls a “biological annihilation.” @physorg

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@oikeios

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The ultra-centralization of capital in end-stage monopoly capitalism makes today's inflation a new phase of class war. Why no environmentally-oriented scholars talking about this? #capitalocene #capitaloceno

IMF

@IMFNews

1 year

Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy.

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@oikeios

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The ecosocialist charge that #worldecology embraces an undialectical monism is false. For us, capitalism unfolds through differentiated unities and the 'interpenetration of opposites': bourgeois & proletarian, 'natural distinctness' & 'economic equivalence,' value & unpaid work,

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@oikeios

4 months

Yes! #capitalocene . The climate crisis is capitalogenic. Ps, no implied criticism before! :)

Çağrı İdiman

@CagrIdiman

4 months

@oikeios Fixed it

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@oikeios

4 months

For the curious, here's the introduction to A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: #worldecology #capitalocene #capitaloceno

(PDF) A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Introduction

PDF | Introduction, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

www.researchgate.net

Kert Tandog

@Kert89

4 months

History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by @_RajPatel & @oikeios This is a well-written book about how Capitalism has impacted our Earth. I love the depth of the historical details & the connections the book puts forward about our mundane habits - from care to work.

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@oikeios

1 year

Capitalism's socio-ecological antagonism, for Marx, emerges through the class struggle in the web of life. As Engels and Marx insist, that conflict is not between "man" and "nature" but bourgeois and proletarian #capitalocene #capitaloceno

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@oikeios

1 year

The climate crisis is #capitalogenic . Those responsible have names and addresses. So do their bank accounts. #capitalocene #capitaloceno

Development Studies Association

@devcomms

1 year

Is this *the* quote from #DSA2023 ? "Those responsible for climate changes have names and addresses, just like the slave traders.." From @oikeios keynote talk.

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@oikeios

1 year

@zimbaboy Academics have established an intellectual no-fly zone around the role of Foundations and the technocratic, do-gooder liberal NGOs. We must not speak of the Billionaire Foundations. #worldecology #capitalocene

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@oikeios

1 year

We don't need corporations to run scholarly journals. Seize the means of mental production! #knowledgefactories

Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

1 year

#Science / #Society / #KnowledgeFactories : "More than 40 leading #scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “ #greed ” of publishing giant #Elsevier ." #capitalocene

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Jason W. Moore

@oikeios

2 years

Class solidarity is internationalist. Or it is nothing.

Eugene V. Debs

@DebsEbooks

2 years

The socialist recognizes no national boundary lines. The nation in which he lives embraces the working class of the world. Every worker everywhere is his brother

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Solidarity.

Earth Liberation Studio

@EarthStvdio

1 year

This one is for the absolute heroes who are blockading the shipment of weapons.

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Ps, if you are periodizing the history of capitalism without an account of exploitation, that's a bourgeois conception.

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@oikeios

1 year

One of my favorites from comrade Marx.

Karl Marx

@marxhaunting

1 year

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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@vogliamo_tutto I'm sure you do understand, comrade. :) The knowledge factory and its disciplining mechanisms -- largely but not only around the fetish of "professionalization" -- is a repressive apparatus. Among its functions is the production of academic alienated labor. #knowledgefactories

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To accept "Man & Nature" as innocent description is to accept the imperialist definition of the problem. Capitalism is not a subset of Man/Nature. With Marx & Engels, we must insist on the deceptive innocence of "man in general." #capitalocene

(PDF) Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the Capitalocene

PDF | Anthropogenic phraseology serves double duty for much of the Green Left. It works descriptively, advancing a naïve empiricism. To the degree that... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

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