A Prolegomenon to an Ecological Marxism: Thoughts on the Materialist Conception of History

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-106

  O'Connor, James ^a  

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EID: 0346366196     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455759909358859     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. See "What is Environmental History?" ibid.
2. J. O'Connor, "The Need for Production and the Production of Needs," The Corporations and the State (New York: Harper and Row, 1974).
3. This statement is obviously wrong if social theory is defined to include biological and physical human history. Here social theory pertains to specifically human beings and human society abstracted from biological nature, i.e., what human beings have in common as such, not what they have in common with other animals. "The history of nature is the history of labor, period" makes sense only if what is uniquely human is abstracted from the rest of nature.
4. Larry Beinhart, American Hero: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993).