The End
Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
$43.75
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2026
Summary
Karl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, Capital, in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species had shattered humanity’s conception of ourselves. In this path-breaking study, Joel Wainwright demonstrates that Capital was deeply influenced by Marx’s reading Darwin’s Origin of Species. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating his distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804299418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804299413 |
| Author: | Joel Wainwright |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 393g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
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 Franta Fanon: Philosopher of Barricades
The End 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 Climate Leviathan
Joel Wainwright
Joel Wainwright is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, where he teaches political economy and climate politics. He is the author of Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya, which won the Blaut Award; Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought; Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future, with Geoff Mann, which won the Sussex Prize for International Theory; and coeditor of Israel/Palestine: Marxist Interpretations.
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