Metabolism in Capitalism: Metabolic Rift Debates
Özet
In our contemporary context, capitalist mode of production has expanded itself almost
entire corners of the earth both in economic and political planes and became a notion in
which functions in a sense that knows no limits. This mode of production which functions
on a global level is primarily an economic and therefore a political notion. This notion
has positioned its own frontiers on to the limits of cycles of natural life and continues to
effect these cycles in inconceivable manners. The subject of this thesis is being able to
make sense of the political and economic outcomes of the relationship between capitalist
mode of production and nature in the contemporary context. It will be touched upon the
meanings of the concept of metabolism (stoffweschel) which was coined by chemist
Justus von Liebig in the 19th Century and given its political and economic context by
Marx in order to both be able to achieve this purpose and to set a contextual limit on the
discussion.
