S03E47 - Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life

Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.

Shownotes

Jason’s personal website:

jasonwmoore.com

Jason at Binghamtom University:

binghamton.edu/sociology/faculty/profile.html?…

The World-Ecology Research Collective:

worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com

researchgate.net/lab/World-Ecology-Research-Co…

Moore, J. W., & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.

versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-w…

Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life. Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.

versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-w…

for an overview of different approaches to conceptualizing society/capitalism and nature:

historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andr…

on Andreas Malm:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Malm

Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.

versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-th…

Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso.

versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital

Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the Witch. Autonomedia.

files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20W…

on Ernst Haeckel:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel

see also the chapter on Haeckel and the German Monist League in:

Gasman, D. (2017). The scientific Origins of National Socialism. Routledge.

taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/978131513…

on Actor-Network Theory:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_th…

on Bruno Latour:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour

on John Bellamy Foster:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellamy_Foster

Bellamy, J. F. (2000) Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature. Monthly Review Press.

ia904504.us.archive.org/9/items/526394/John%20…

on Kohei Saito:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei_Saito

on Pietro Verri:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Verri

Marx, K. (1976). Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume One. Penguin.

surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.…

Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/th…

Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscrip…

Marx’s and Engel’s German Ideology:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-id…

Marx’s Capital Vol. 3.:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3

Marx’s On The Jewish Question:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-qu…

on Alfred Sohn-Rethel:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sohn-Rethel

Machado, C. & Miguel, N. (2013). The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities. The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel.

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48961/1/MPRA_paper_489…

on Donna Haraway:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway

on the “Special Period” in Cuba:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period

on James Lovelock:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock

Lovelock, J. (1979). Gaia. A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press.

global.oup.com/academic/product/gaia-978019878… (global.oup.com/academic/product/gaia-978019878…;)

on “Social metabolism”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_metabolism

on Raymond Williams:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams

Smele, J. D. (2016). The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Ten Years that Shook the World. Hurst.

hurstpublishers.com/book/the-russian-civil-war…

Engel-Di Mauro, S. (2021). Socialist States and the Environment. Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures. Pluto Press.

plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-…

Amin, S. (1990). Delinking. Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books.

bloomsbury.com/uk/delinking-9780862328030

on material and energy flow accounting:

see the chapter on that topic in:

Bartelmus, P. (2008). Quantitative Eco-nomics. How sustainable are our economies. Springer.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6966-6

Zeug, W. (2025). INDEP talk with Walther Zeug: Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting.

youtu.be/I4_8_lDfwEw?si=J-kdRzjIehZqPgs0

Kula, W. (2016). Measures and Men. Princeton University Press.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691639…

Echterhölter, A. M. (2019). Quantification as Conflict. Witold Kula’s Political Metrology and Its Reception in the West . Historyka : studia metodologiczne, 49, 117-141 . Article 9.

journals.pan.pl/Content/114031/PDF/7%20ECHTERH…

on Max Weber:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber

on Double-entry bookkeeping:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping

on “proletarian science”:

Moore, J.W. (2025). Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life. Dialectical Anthropology. 49, 149–167.

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-025-0…

on Ecosystem services:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service

on the “Ecological footprint” concept:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

on Thomas Müntzer:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer

on the Royal Botanic Gardens/Kew Gardens:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens_(Kew)

on the Stakhanovite movement:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement

on Cybernetics: