„Peak Capitalism?“ Wachstumsgrenzen als Grenzen des Kapitalismus

Birgit Mahnkopf

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2014, vol. 67, issue 7, 505-512

Abstract: This article focuses on the future viability of capitalism as a socio-ecological world system which is characterised by the subjection of any nature, be it human or non-human, to its law of motion. Even in modern high tech capitalism, the dynamics of accumulation remains dependent on “the free gifts of nature” (Karl Marx). Today however, the absolute limits of nature can be seen not only on the “input” side of resources, which can only be overcome by way of serious conflicts and the use of violence to protect particular interests. Even more menacing is that we are moving closer to the planetary boundaries on the “output”-side of the capitalist “doomsday machine”. If we do not succeed within a short time to contain the consumption of resources and the production of pollutants that are associated with the specifically capitalist form of production, consumption and lifestyle, the question of the future of capitalism as a world-ecological system will be answered in a geologically radical manner.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2014-7-505

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