The End

In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. Marx even called Capital a study of natural history.

Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.

PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY 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