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and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1995), especially chapter 10; and Heinz Lubasz, “Adam Smith and the 'Free
Market,'” in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays ,
edited by Stephen Copley and Kathryn Sutherland (New York: Manchester
University Press, 1995), 45-69.
89. Compare a statement oten atributed to Fredric Jameson: “It's easier to
imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” But he did not
make this remark himself; he atributes it to an anonymous other in his essay,
“Future City,” New Left Review , volume 21 (2003), 65-79; see page 76. Many
commentators on our current political dilemmas have invoked this insight;
for a book-length discussion see Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature: The End of
Capitalism or the End of the World? (New York, Zed Books, 2002).
90. See Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Matered
(Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith, 1985), and George Sessions, editor, Deep
Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New
Environmentalism (Boston: Shambhala, 1995).
91. On the moral case for the use of violence in response to ecological crisis, see
Derrick Jensen, Endgame: Volume I, The Problem of Civilization , and Volume II,
Resistance (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006).
92. For discussions of capitalism without growth, see Tim Jackson, Prosperity
Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Sterling, Virginia: Earthscan,
2009), and Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and
the Durable Future (New York: Henry Holt, 2007). For related discussions
of transforming capitalism, see Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice,
Sustainability, and Peace (Cambridge, Massachusets: South End Press, 2005),
and William Greider, The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
93. See Sasha Lilley and others, Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse
and Rebirth (Oakland: PM Press, 2012).
94. On politics as the art of the impossible, see Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject:
The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (New York: Verso, 1999), 199. In a
related vein, Žižek has often commented on the apparently impossible act that
reframes the entire political context; for a recent, representative discussion,
see In Defense of Lost Causes (New York: Verso, 2008), 304-316.