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Capitalism’s War on Life from Palestine to the Burning Planet
Foreword by Jason Hickel
From the scorched-earth campaigns of early colonialism, to today’s climate apartheid, exterminatory violence against peoples and ecosystems have always been central to the imperial project. The Exterminating Empire traces capital’s centuries-long war against life itself.
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