Mit Klassenkämpfen ins Anthropozän. Naturverhältnisse im französischsprachigen Anarchismus, circa 1870 -1914

This article describes how French anarchists conceived of human relationships to non-human natural surroundings. In line with their criticisms of human-nature relations within capitalism, anarchists in France sketched an alternative society where humans had non-instrumental relationships to their natural environment that were based on solidary. Bringing this historical example into a dialogue with contemporary anthropological theories, I argue that class struggle can also be understood as a set of conflicts over the way humans relate to their environment.