Ecology and Historical Materialism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

This book challenges the widely held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with environmental problems. Jonathan Hughes considers the nature of environmental problems and the evaluative perspective that may be  brought to bear on them. He examines Marx's critique of Malthus, his method,and his materialism, interpreting the malthus, his method, and his method, and his materialism interpreting the latter as recognition of human dependence on nature. Central to the Book's argument is an interpreation of the development of the productive forces' which takes