ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- Introduction: Forces of Production and The Climate Crisis -- An Ecological Reinterpretation of the Productive Forces -- Marx's Ecology: John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett -- Fossil Capitalism -- Green Productive Forces -- Fettering and Productive Forces -- The Structure of this Book -- PART I: FORCES OF PRODUCTION AND ECOLOGY -- 1. Development of the Productive Forces and Critiques of Marx -- De-Growth and the Green Critique of Marx -- Materialist Feminisms and Marx -- The Development of Forces of Production: A More Historical and Human Developmental View -- Normative Developmentalism and Capitalism's "Civilizing" Mission -- Conclusion -- 2. Marxism and Forces of Production: Towards an Ecological Conception -- Productive Forces and Technological Determinism -- Productive Forces and the Dialectic of Capacities and Needs -- Lenin, Mao(ism) and Forces of Production -- Marxism and the Labour Process -- Modern Ecology and the "Forces of Destruction" -- Conclusion -- 3. Marx and the Critique of Political Economy and Ecology -- Labour Process, Metabolism and Forces of Production -- Primitive Accumulation, Expropriation and Nature's "Free Gifts" to Capital -- Instruments of Labour and Primitive Accumulation -- Formal and Real Subsumption of Labour to Capital -- Capitalist Industrialization: What Technology Reveals -- Fossil Capitalism -- Matter and Energy Throughput -- Spaces of Circulation and Fixed Capital -- Corporate Capitalism and the Concentration of Productive Forces -- Cooperation, Divisions of Labour, Planning -- Knowledge and Science as a Force in the Production Process -- Socialization, Cadre, and Knowledge Workers -- Marx and Metabolic Rift -- Treadmill of Production and the Carbon Rift -- Decarbonization and Degrowth -- The Growth of Ecology and Cooperation -- Conclusion -- 4. Ecological Marxism(s) and the Productive Forces -- Latouche and Radical De-Growth -- James O'Connor and Ecological Conditions of Production -- Jason Moore and World Ecology -- Conclusion -- PART II: CANADIAN FOSSIL CAPITALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTIVE FORCES -- 5. Climate Change and the Networked Infrastructures of Canadian Fossil Capitalism -- Social Metabolism and the Role of Infrastructure>br/> Concentration of Capital and Credit -- Spatial Fix and Built Environment -- Industrial Metabolism and Networked Infrastructures -- Canadian Carbon Corridors and Landscapes of Power -- Canadian Oil and Gas Boom -- Canadian Oil Expansion -- Tar Sands Growth and Infrastructural Networks -- Growing Natural Gas -- Infrastructure and Path-Dependency.
The Structured Symbiosis Between Carbon Capital and Finance -- Conclusion -- 6. Fossil Capitalism, Corporate Strategy and Post-Carbon Futures -- Petro-Politics and Petro-States -- Corporate Power and Carbon Capital -- Post-Carbon Futures and Corporate Strategy -- Sample and Data -- Renewable Energy Development in Canada -- Carbon Capital and Renewables: An Emerging Accumulation Strategy? -- Interlocking Directorates -- Conclusion -- 7. Science, Ecology and the Greening of Carbon-Extractive Development -- Marx and Science as a Force of Production -- The Scientific-Technical Revolution and Growth of Fossil Capitalism -- Science in the "Golden Age" -- Science and Neoliberalism -- Fossil Knowledge and the Corporate Colonization of R&D -- The Greening of Fossil Capitalism -- Networks of "Green" Fossil Knowledge in Canada -- Greened Extractivism and Fettering of Ecological Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: The Future of Productive Forces: Towards Green Socialism -- Rapidly and Comprehensively Phasing out Fossil Fuels, While Transitioning to a Clean Energy System -- Transforming and Restructuring Existing Extraction, Production, Distribution Systems -- Halting the Colonization of Knowledge by Capital and "Remaking" Science in its Organization, Prioritization and Application -- Planning the Transition at all Levels in a Democratic and Participatory Manner -- The Future of Productive Forces -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism , Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such "green productive forces" are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital. In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge