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Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster
A new philosophy for communism and ecological revolution.
In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a “biocommunism” - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. Based on an original reading of founding texts of Marxism, the author launches a critique of the “ontological turn” in ecology. Against Bruno Latour or Donna Haraway, he develops a philosophy for green Marxism based on the centrality of land ownership. The history of societies and the history of nature are intertwined precisely because they have singular trajectories. In a new reading of Karl Marx's exchanges with the populist ‘terrorists’ in Russia, the cultural studies of Raymond Williams and the Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui's and Ernst Bloch's attachment to the land, the author develops a philosophical naturalism in which human belonging to the Earth is transformed by the ways in which societies appropriate nature. A political strategy is derived from this new philosophy of ecological dual power, “ecological soviets”, is the communist strategy for getting out of the Anthropocene. Communism must become environmentalism, and political ecology can only become truly revolutionary if it becomes communist.
In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a “biocommunism” - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. Based on an original reading of founding texts of Marxism, the author launches a critique of the “ontological turn” in ecology. Against Bruno Latour or Donna Haraway, he develops a philosophy for green Marxism based on the centrality of land ownership. The history of societies and the history of nature are intertwined precisely because they have singular trajectories. In a new reading of Karl Marx's exchanges with the populist ‘terrorists’ in Russia, the cultural studies of Raymond Williams and the Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui's and Ernst Bloch's attachment to the land, the author develops a philosophical naturalism in which human belonging to the Earth is transformed by the ways in which societies appropriate nature. A political strategy is derived from this new philosophy of ecological dual power, “ecological soviets”, is the communist strategy for getting out of the Anthropocene. Communism must become environmentalism, and political ecology can only become truly revolutionary if it becomes communist.
208 pages, Hardcover
Published October 21, 2025
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November 16, 2025
A bit of a slog for such a short book. Much of the first half consists quotations that are then explained over the course of several pages with somewhat dense philosophical jargon that complicats rather than clarifies. I'd personally recommend reading the likes of Andreas Malm or Kohei Saito for similar works that feel more coherent and relevant to the politics of today. As a fan of Raymond Williams I did somewhat enjoy the chapter discussing his writings, but again I felt something was lost in extracting parts out of their original context and fitting them into Guillibert's theory.
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