I am ordering this book. Nearly 25 years ago, my mentor John Bellamy Foster observed that Marx grounded his ecological view based on soil scientist Justus von Liebig's "soil exhaustion" thesis which he attributed to capitalist agriculture's robbery of nutrients from the soil.
Marx expanded on Liebig's argument documenting the grave robbing from European battlefields and the international trade in bone meal as well as guano obtained through colonialism and slave labor in Peru. I hope the authors drew on materialist science while writing this book and recognized both Justus von Liebig's'and Karl Marx's contributions to this account.
I am ordering this book. Nearly 25 years ago, my mentor John Bellamy Foster observed that Marx grounded his ecological view based on soil scientist Justus von Liebig's "soil exhaustion" thesis which he attributed to capitalist agriculture's robbery of nutrients from the soil.
Marx expanded on Liebig's argument documenting the grave robbing from European battlefields and the international trade in bone meal as well as guano obtained through colonialism and slave labor in Peru. I hope the authors drew on materialist science while writing this book and recognized both Justus von Liebig's'and Karl Marx's contributions to this account.