The Little Red Reading Group: Introduction to Marxist Ecology – Metabolic Rift Theory

Today the climate crisis and humanity’s broader relationship to non-human nature are among the most important questions for the Left to grapple with. However, even among socialists the Marxist theory of ecology is not widely known or discussed.

This session will seek to introduce people to the ‘Theory of the Metabolic Rift’ and its application to Aotearoa’s history of settler colonialism and imperialism while perhaps touching on some more recent criticisms of the theory as articulated by John Bellamy Foster.

Readings + Questions:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RBtaoRtPuPn83SPDAXjT_6OIq74oLbxGYRveiG4BbSo/edit#heading=h.di85puyc6gcg