This article highlights valorization through commodification as a process specific to and defining of the capitalist mode of production as the key dynamic to ecological crisis. It goes on to review recent Marxist scholarship on the political economy of ecological crisis and provides a critical assessment of the work of James O'Connor that draws on the work of Andre Gorz.
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