PAUL BURKETT teaches economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: NATURE AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Requirements of a Social Ecology Nature, Labor, and Production The Natural Bias of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces PART II: NATURE AND CAPITALISM Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production Capital's 'Free Appropriation' of Natural and Social Conditions Capitalism and Nature: A Value-form Approach Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis Capitalism and Environmental Crisis Marx's Working-day Analysis and Environmental Crisis Nature and Communism Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle Nature and Associated Production PART IV: TWO CRITIQUES Reassessing Schmidt's Concept of Nature in Marx A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part I: Society, Nature, and Population A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part II: Labor, Nature and Capital

PAUL BURKETT teaches economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: NATURE AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Requirements of a Social Ecology Nature, Labor, and Production The Natural Bias of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces PART II: NATURE AND CAPITALISM Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production Capital's 'Free Appropriation' of Natural and Social Conditions Capitalism and Nature: A Value-form Approach Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis Capitalism and Environmental Crisis Marx's Working-day Analysis and Environmental Crisis Nature and Communism Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle Nature and Associated Production PART IV: TWO CRITIQUES Reassessing Schmidt's Concept of Nature in Marx A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part I: Society, Nature, and Population A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part II: Labor, Nature and Capital