Beyond ecocidal capitalism: climate crisis and climate justice

Kevin Surprise

Chapter 25 in The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci, 2024, pp 448-468 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Capital accumulation requires the expropriation, commodification, and pollution of socio-ecological life - ecocidal tendencies now generating threats to the continued hegemony of capitalism. This final chapter utilizes Gramsci’s conceptions of human-nature relations, passive revolution, and relations of force to examine how capital and capitalist states are responding to the ecological aspects of organic crisis, and the budding emergence of transformative climate movements. The chapter explores the development of so-called green capitalism as a crisis management strategy, competition among various fractions of capital concerning different accumulation strategies in the midst of climate crisis, and the geopolitical futures augured by the connection between the potential decline of fossil fuels and the return of inter-imperialist rivalry. It concludes by sketching some lines of solidarity among emergent movements for climate justice, including the Green New Deal, anti-imperialism, and abolition.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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