ABSTRACT Nonhuman animals show up repeatedly throughout Karl Marx’s writings, often when Marx is making distinctions between humans and other species. I argue that Marx uses these distinctions to establish two core aspects of human nature—our interest in freely chosen activity and our deep social connections—that then shape his vision for an emancipated future. I show that many of these distinctions have been upended by contemporary animal behavior research, and that other species, too, have interests in freely chosen activity and cultivate deep social (and ecological) connections. If this is true, I claim, then much of Marx’s vision of emancipation under communism can and should be extended to other species. This requires, first, updating Marx’s concept of species-being to attend to ecological interdependence between all beings. And while I cannot here sketch out a full vision of multispecies communism, I explore how three components of Marx’s politics might be reinterpreted to include nonhuman animals: (1) the revolutionary role of the proletariat; (2) the insufficiency of representative democracy; and (3) the relation between the free individual and free society.

ABSTRACT The materiality of the climate crisis is increasingly difficult to ignore, creating a “code red” for humanity (United Nations 2021) that demands “transformational” change (Guterres 2020). Climate action has not reflected this urgency. This paper suggests that sport in Aotearoa New Zealand offers distinctive insight into the stuck-ness of climate action under late capitalism. Climate change poses an existential threat to many sports (Breitbarth et al. 2023). As a disaster-prone country where both sport and the natural environment are core identity threads, this threat is especially stark in Aotearoa New Zealand. Moreover, the case has an international significance because of Aotearoa New Zealand’s longstanding status as a global social laboratory (Davis 2014) where radical and future-leading policy changes have occurred. If radical climate action is to happen, sport in Aotearoa New Zealand is fertile ground. Conversely, environmental policy in Aotearoa New Zealand sport is defined by a fragmented paralysis where there is evident environmental awareness but limited action. This inaction, should not be attributed to local failures but instead distinctly illustrates a secondary dimension of the climate crisis: a crisis of imagination whereby it is difficult to conceive of environmental action outside of the exigencies of capitalism.

ABSTRACT Capitalism perpetuates injustices by appropriating vast amounts of human effort and natural wealth across regions and populations, all under the guise of economic cooperation and mutual benefit. Marxist and ecological approaches to unequal exchange (UE) both seek to expose these transfers. Yet without theoretical integration, they fail to support crucial alliances between social and environmental justice movements. This paper therefore approaches UE as the convergence of labour, material, monetary, and currency imbalances. While individual imbalances may indicate asymmetry, their combined effect reveals deeper, systemic injustices. In 2022, after excluding productivity gaps, UE (expressed in monetary terms) amounted to a gain of US$ 3.1 trillion for the economies of the centre (equivalent to 27% of their combined Domestic Value Added, DVA) and a loss of US$ 1.7 trillion for the periphery (108%). When productivity gaps are included, the centre's gain rises to US$ 8.8 trillion (76%), while the periphery loses US$ 6.9 trillion – equivalent to a staggering 440% of DVA. These imbalances reflect not a deviation from some “true” or “fair” monetary value of nature or labour, but rather expose a system sustained by extraction and exploitation. Balance cannot be restored within such a system; it must be transformed.

ABSTRACT The objective of the article is to establish a common ground between Ecological Civilization and the New Projectment theory. The objective lies in understanding and exploring the possibilities of a more rational relationship between humanity and nature grounded in a scientific and dialectical conceptualization of the economic and social processes. With that in mind, the article will seek to an understanding of Ecological Civilization by considering the nature of the concept and its historical and material grounding. The discussion on sustainable development might be helped by considering that a rationalization of the economy is tied to the capability of surpassing the law of value and the ability to create utility.

ABSTRACT This article examines the 2025 Indonesian protests through documentary poetry that memorializes seven people who died over three days of civil unrest in Jakarta, Makassar, Yogyakarta, and Solo. Drawing on Indonesian media reports, this work uses first-person verse to reconstruct the circumstances around each death: an ojek rider crushed by police vehicles, civil servants trapped in the burning parliamentary building, a student killed by fellow protesters, a communications student beaten to death, and a becak driver who died from tear gas exposure. The project draws on the traditions of confessional poetry and documentary practice to show how individual tragedies reflect structural tensions in Indonesia's political economy, twenty-seven years after Reformasi. Rather than treating protest deaths as statistics or political symbols, the poems reconstruct lived experiences and demonstrate the intersections between precarious labour, state violence, and class conflict. This work illustrates how the literature bears historical witness to the reduction of human lives to expendable casualties, produced by market relations and state power. The piece contributes to scholarship on protest movements, memorial practices, and the role of poetry in social upheaval, offering a textured account of contemporary Indonesian politics through the lives it has claimed.

ABSTRACT This paper argues how climate change and capitalism intersect in Bangladesh’s coastal lands – where people’s resilience is celebrated, yet their struggles are quietly exploited. It explores what I call climate extraction: the process through which human suffering and environmental loss are turned into sources of profit. From shrimp and prawn farms replacing farmlands to debt-driven labour migration and microfinance loans, the poor are made to bear the costs of adaptation while others benefit. At the global level, green finance, carbon trading, and conservation projects reproduce the same unequal patterns of extraction. By tracing these layered injustices, the paper calls for a shift from profit-based adaptation to justice-based transformation – one that honours local knowledge, protects livelihoods, and restores the dignity of those living at the climate frontlines.

ABSTRACT Christianity and Marxism has both been arch-enemies and associated throughout the modern period. This is due to their closely related concerns, such as the concern for the poor and oppressed, criticism of profit-seeking, and the desire for a just community among else. Today, a new and similar description of our present crises has been formulated by Pope Francis, representing the Christian camp, and the eco-Marxist work on Karl Marx’s theory of metabolic rift. Both claim that today’s political and ecological crisis follows from the advancement of technocratic capitalism, deteriorating the state of both the oppressed and of nature. What Pope Francis calls the “cry of the earth, cry of the poor,” and Marx called “robbing the worker … robbing the soil.” Is this a moment of shared struggle against a common enemy, or a problem description that hides the real divides accompanying their historical rivalries? This article examines their points of convergence and divergence, evaluating the value of their shared analyses.

ABSTRACT This article reflects, through the voice of Waorani environmental defender Alicia Cahuiya, on how oil exploration destroys people and their territories. But also, how it severs their connection with their ancestors, their worldview, and their home.