Marxism and Earth's Habitability Crisis: From the Metabolic Rift to the Anthropocene

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Earth’s Crisis of Habitability and Geosciences
	2.1 The Anthropocene. History and Prospective
		2.1.1 Empirical Evidence of the Anthropocene
		2.1.2 Geologic and Stratigraphic Form of the Anthropocene
		2.1.3 The International Chronostratigraphic Chart and the Geologic Time Scale
		2.1.4 The Proposal of Formalization by the Anthropocene Working Group
		2.1.5 Critique of the Formalization of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Time Scale
	References
3 Structural Link of the Habitability Crisis to the Capitalist Mode of Social Reproduction
	3.1 Marx’s Perspective is Relevant for Understanding the Habitability Crisis
	3.2 Reproduction and Accumulation of Capital Throughout Commodity Production
		3.2.1 The Material Reproduction of Bourgeois Society
		3.2.2 Capital as an Automatic Fetish
		3.2.3 The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
		3.2.4 Social Metabolism with Nature and Metabolic Rift
	3.3 Implications of the Rate of Profit for the Capitalist Systemic Crisis and the Habitability Crisis
		3.3.1 Declining Rate of Profit, Economic Crises, and Capitalist Systemic Crisis
		3.3.2 Revision of the Marxist Debate on the Rate of Profit and the Theory of Crises After the 2007–2008 Financial Crash
			3.3.2.1 Michael Heinrich’s Critique of the Profit Rate and Crises Theory in the Context of the So-Called New Reading of Marx
			3.3.2.2 David Harvey’s Critique of the Profit Rate and Crises Theory
		3.3.3 Habitability Crisis, Capitalist Systemic Crisis, and Decreasing Rate of Profit
	References
4 Epistemological Grounds to Transcend the Habitability Crisis
	4.1 The Importance of Philosophy for Scientific Understanding
		4.1.1 Science and Scientific Knowledge
		4.1.2 Natural and Social Science Disciplines
		4.1.3 Natural Laws and Social Production Laws
		4.1.4 Epistemological Paradigms of the Capitalist Society
			4.1.4.1 Positivism and Idealism
			4.1.4.2 Dialectics and Materialism
	4.2 The Anthropocene and Capitalocene as Concepts of the Planetary Crisis
		4.2.1 The Epistemological Perspective of Earth System Science on Nature and the Habitability Crisis
			4.2.1.1 Limitations of the Earth System Science Understanding of the Habitability Crisis
			4.2.1.2 Complaints About Marxism from Earth System Science
		4.2.2 The Concept of the Planetary Crisis in Capitalocene Narratives
			4.2.2.1 Abstraction and “Cartesian Dualism”
			4.2.2.2 “Accumulation by Appropriation” and Accumulation by the Capitalist Form of Labor Exploitation
	4.3 Overview of Current Approaches to the Habitability Crisis
		4.3.1 Marxism vs Other Views on the Habitability Crisis
		4.3.2 What Is Marxism?
	References
5 Summary and Conclusions
Index