
Turning the Earth into Money w/ John Bellamy Foster
A World to Win with Grace Blakeley
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The Concept of Metabolics
The concept of metabolism, which marks first introduced in the social context, also became the framework for the development of eco system theory up to our present notion of the earth metabolism. And much oin this analysis actually influenced later scientists in the development of ecological theory. But it wasn't very well understood in marxism for a long time. So Marks was a very directly ecological in its analysis. He had three concepts really. One was the universal metabolism of nature, that meant of nature, of which human beings are a part,. essentially the universe, the realm of natural law.
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