The Capitalocene explains the Anthropocene

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The statement "The Capitalocene explains the Anthropocene" suggests that the Capitalocene offers a more comprehensive and historically grounded understanding of the environmental crisis than the Anthropocene, which is often seen as too narrowly focused on human impact. The Capitalocene emphasizes the role of capitalism, class struggle, and colonial exploitation in shaping the environmental crisis, whereas the Anthropocene often focuses on the broader impact of human activities on the planet. "When capital is understood as a web of relations – social, political, ecological, historical – building arguments of blame against an abstracted 'humanity' becomes exponentially more difficult. Slavery, debt peonage, settler colonialism, genocide, and other forms of capital's socio-ecocidal tendencies are back-benched in favour of nice, neat explanations that do not require the inconvenience of the dialectic." https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/resuscitating-the-dialectic-moores-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life-ecology-and-the-accumulation-of-capital-in-the-supposed-age-of-man/#_edn1

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