In A Critical Theory Of Sustainability

Abstract

This paper proposes a critical theory of sustainability. To do so, we will retrieve the more usual and universal conceptions of the subject, hereby called the Traditional Theory of Sustainability, in order to find their theoretical and conceptual developments, including their critical bias. We will present such traditional theory and then review it through high lights as to give it a meaning that is able to show how it hides a proposal that meets the needs of the socialmetabolism of capital (Mészáros, 2002). This will be done from the definition of the components of a critical theory of sustainability. The arguments in support of the critical theory on the traditional theory of sustainability is based on the idea that sustainability should be understood not only as a collective process of production of objective and subjective material conditions of social existence, but also as a process that likewise values its producers.