In Anthropocene Communism the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new
communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system he hopes to move us beyond the
ecological crisis of late capitalism. In a highly original reading of Karl Marx’s exchanges
with the populist ‘terrorists’ in Russia and informed by the cultural studies of Raymond
Williams the Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui and Ernst Bloch’s attachment to the land the
author develops a philosophical naturalism that rethinks our relations with the environment.
Rather than a fixed state this relationship is influenced by cultural social and historical
practices. For Guillibert if we are to move beyond the Anthropocene we must develop new
strategies. Communism must become environmentalism and political ecology can only become truly
revolutionary once it is communist.
