Empire, class and the origins of planetary crisis:the transition debate in the web of life
| Autor | Jason W. Moore |
| Cargo | Binghamton University State University of New York, Sociology Faculty, Binghamton, NY, United States |
| Páginas | 740-763 |
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 28, n. 49, p. 740-763, set./dez. 2021.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e83493
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EMPIRE, CLASS AND THE ORIGINS
OF PLANETARY CRISIS:
THE TRANSITION DEBATE IN THE
WEB OF LIFE
Jason W. Moorea
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7237-9895
Email: jwmoore@binghamton.edu
a Binghamton University State University of New York, Sociology Faculty, Binghamton, NY,
United States
histórias em contextos globais
DEBATE
Colapso ambiental e histórias do capitalismo
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 28, n. 49, p. 740-763, set./dez. 2021.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e83493 741/897
ABSTRACT
We are discovering in the era of climate crisis that the Transition Debate is a debate over the origins and
crisis tendencies of capitalism in the web of life. The original Debate emerged in its contemporary form in
the thick of the Cold War, assuming mature form during the world revolution of 1968. It was a historical-
analytical debate over the historical geography of capitalist origins, and its two poles were 1492 and
analytical substance: the terrain of “actually existing” world history. And it was a political debate over
the priorities of socialist politics, especially the enduring tension between “socialism in one country”
and proletarian internationalism that had riven the world left since 1914 and the historic betrayal of
Europe’s social democratic parties in support of War. In the 21st century, the language of the Debate
has changed, but assumed an even greater prominence in the unfolding climate crisis, captured in the
debate between the Anthropocene (“Age of Man”) and the Capitalocene (“Age of Capital”). In what
follows, I will focus on the historical-analytical challenge, mindful of its relation to the ongoing struggle
for planetary justice – and against the Popular Anthropocene’s imperial-technocratic ambitions. We may
begin with an extraordinary misperception of the Transition Debate. It is not, in the main, a contention
between “production” and “circulation.” If anything, it is about how class politics and modern state
formation – including modern empires – cohere relations of production, reproduction, and accumulation.
KEYWORDS
Transition Debate; Capitalocene; Anthropocene.
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