This thought-provoking study argues that Marx's study of Charles Darwin led him to develop a distinctively Marxian concept of natural history that provides crucial direction for promoting an eco-socialist alternative to capitalism. An incisive work that is likely to spur lively discussion and debate.
- Peter Hudis, author of <i>Franta Fanon: Philosopher of Barricades</i>,
<i>The End</i> puts us in the middle of a fascinating conversation between Marx and Darwin that most of us hardly knew was going on. Joel Wainwright elaborates a creative and fertile relationship that reveals a fuller, natural-historical Marx--an engagement that shines a surprising, insightful and powerful new light on the present.
- Geoff Mann, co-author of <i>Climate Leviathan</i>,
1. Marx before Darwin
2. Darwin and the destruction of teleology
3. Marx after Darwin
PART II: READING CAPITAL AS NATURAL HISTORY
4. Labor, nature, and technology
5. From population to commodity fetishism
PART III: ELABORATIONS OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY
6. A natural history of capitalism
7. Philosophical implications of Marxian natural history
8. Prospect of an end