Body, nature, and capital: uses and implications of the concept of metaboliam by Marx

The physiological concept of metabolism, uned empecially by natural sciences, will play a fondamental role in the critique of Marx's political economy as he deepens has understanding of the determinations sumanesd to capita, in the Grundrisse of 1857 1858. When analyzing how capital digests, driven by unmeasured "compubion", living matter (earth and hooman bodily strength) to transform it into value and surplus value and the catastrophic damage that is excreted from this procesa. Marx frequently uses this concept and, through it, it is possible to verify a complex dialectical relationship between the metabolism of nature and the metabolism of socio historical form. From this perspective, swe intend to analyze in the Grundrisse at least five distinct movements expressed by the concept of metabolism that will, combined, lead Mars to the diagnosis of the metaboli disturbance that appears in the book 1 of The Capitat A) The processes of nature in the autonomy of its cyclest: BJ The vital process of interaction between the human body and the earth: C) The functioning of the social form historically arising from capital from and on the body land interaction; D) The transformation processes that occur in the autistance of value through exchanges between Goods and Money: E) The consumption necessary for the reproduction of the different ports that make up the capital organism in the production process. Such movements demonstrate how the metabolism of capital operates, and can only operate, causing disturbance practical implications the metabolism of the interaction between human and nature. The theoretical and this analysis direct us to think about the need to create a new socioeconomic form of production and reproduction that enables a healthy metabolism with the nature around us and non-pathological social body. us a future.