Prolekult
For Land: Capital as Extinction is the first installment in Prolekult’s For Land trilogy-an ambitious cinematic and theoretical project arguing that capitalism itself constitutes the sixth mass extinction. This annotated script and study guide accompany the acclaimed film For Land: Part One, providing expanded analysis, citations, and contextual essays for classroom and study use. Building upon Marxist ecology and political economy, the work contends that the capitalist mode of production is not merely a contributor to ecological collapse but its generative engine-structuring the destruction of biodiversity, ecosystems, and human life alike. The book traverses the Amazon, examining gold mining, deforestation, and forced labor, and situates these within broader debates on the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Marx’s theory of metabolism.With additional readings on modes of production, Marx and nature, and the metabolic rift (featuring Jason W. Moore), this volume offers a rigorous and accessible framework for students, organizers, and educators seeking to understand the relationship between capitalism and ecological crisis.Part polemic, part pedagogical resource, For Land: Capital as Extinction brings, quite brilliantly, the Marxist argument on mass extinction to a popular audience without sacrificing theoretical precision-bridging film, philosophy, and environmental science in a bold call to action.
