“This is a beautiful piece of intellectual work. Via the theories of Andre Gorz, Leonardi generates an original interpretation of the logic driving the encounter of Marxist and Degrowth thought, and a compelling argument for the importance of this unexpected rendezvous.”
—Nick Dyer-Witheford
“Reading Andre Gorz, via the Italian operaismo, as a fundamental source for a Marxist interpretation of degrowth, this book comes up with a truly radical proposal: that of redefining wealth away from the capitalist value system. This makes it a much-needed contribution to working-class ecological politics today.”
—Stefania Barca, author of Workers of the Earth
“Do you still believe that the market is capable of resolving its own disasters, that capitalism can be reformed, that workers are concerned solely with production, and that Marx was a Promethean modernist or an early ecologist? Then read Labour, Nature, Value. With André Gorz as its guide, the book takes a compelling journey through the quagmire of the green economy and the pitfalls of a direct valorization of nature, towards the promise of an emerging working-class ecology”
—Luigi Pellizzoni, author of Nature, Neoliberalism and New Materialisms: Riding the Ungovernable
