LA DINÁMICA EXTRACTIVA DEL CAPITAL COMO AMENAZA PARA LA REPRODUCCIÓN DE LA VIDA. ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES DESDE LA ECOLOGÍA POLÍTICA Y EL MARXISMO EN TORNO A LA NOCIÓN DE “PROYECTOS DE MUERTE”

Abstract

Over the last decade, the notion that classifies the different projects under the common label of “death projects” and, therefore, to the extractive industry as something antagonistic to the life, it has become relevant in both ways, in its use and its extension in almost all the countries of Latin America, mainly by communities, organizations and colectives that oppose to the minning, the fracking, the hydroelectric or some other extractive project. It is worth reconsidering the importance of the life-death dichotomy in the context of the struggles against the so-called “megaprojects” not only as a category of struggle or a politicized category, but also a key to the analysis of the socio-ecological repercussions that extractive projects cause on different forms of life. In this sense, the present work consist of a series of theoretical reflections from political ecology and Marxism about how the dynamics of capital radically transforms human and non-human life to make it susceptible to being subsumed to the logic of value re-functionalizing the matter-energy flows of living labor, the values of use and nature.