Neomarxist approaches to environmental crisis and sustainable development

Autor: Jovanović Matija
Jazyk: English<br />Serbian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Sociologija, Vol 57, Iss 3, Pp 421-437 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0038-0318
2406-0712
DOI: 10.2298/SOC1503421J
Popis: This paper discusses two neomarxist theories of ecological crises - theory of metabolic rift and the second contradiction of capitalism theory. The goal of the paper is to present two critical theories and to confront them so similarities, differences, flaws and contributions of those theories can be identified. In the first part of the paper author classifies different approaches to ecological crisis and sustainable development in order to relate two neomarxist theories to other approaches to the topic. In the second part, author discusses theory of metabolic rift, which is a heuristic analysis of Marx’s original work. In other words, this theory represents a new reading of the classic and tries to integrate it’s new findings about envirnmental side of Marx’s thought into a contemporary marxist theory. Third part of the paper is reserved for the second contradiction of capitalism, a neomarxist theory of economic crisis which can be applied as a theory of ecological crisis. Two theories are then confronted after which similarities and differences between them are pointed out. The author concludes the paper by stressing out the flaws and scientific contributions of the two theories.
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