Planetary Entanglements: Marxian and Earthly Responses to Environmental and Territorial (In)justice

This introduction presents the theme of the Rethinking Marxism special issue on Planetary Entanglements, including how it came about. The seven essays, including visual essays, collected herein address ways of rethinking Marxism, inspired by recent notions of planetary or earthly entanglements. They imply a need to adopt a more sensuous and place-specific way of engaging with exploitative social relations and see critical geographies as a distinct rallying point to counter unjust and elitist practices. The issue editors argue that a particular contextual and situational focus is necessary to recognize how terricide, the killing of the Earth, is a process happening at a pace viscerally comprehensible to humans, despite our fleeting existence. This process is locally expressed, with the Earth and humans entangled as parts of a common planetary problem that is wicked and rapidly mutating, in urgent need of a grounded pluriversal response.