Ecosocialism
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Global Fever
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity’s response? And what can both tell us about capitalism and communism? These are the questions that Andreas Malm addresses in his new book forthcoming next month. It is a remarkable work, a tour de force. It portrays capitalism not simply… Continue reading
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Barry Commoner: The systems we depend on are upside down
Decades ago, he showed that environmental, energy and economic crises had a common cause: a system that demands increased profits at all costs Continue reading
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‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’ wins the 2018 Deutscher Prize
I’m thrilled to report that Kohei Saito’s brilliant book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy, has won the 2018 Deutscher Memorial Prize. The prize, named for the great Marxist scholar and historian Isaac Deutscher, is awarded annually to “a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing… Continue reading
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On the environmental question, Sam Gindin has got it wrong By Brad Hornick
Sam Gindin’s recent contributions to the The Bullet and Jacobin explore the lost potential of the working class in revolutionary politics. On the economic and ecological fronts, he argues, working-class politics has been incapable of catalyzing widespread and consequential societal mobilization, or becoming vital sites of theoretical and practical struggle. Continue reading
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Unmaking Global Capitalism By Sam Grindin
When Marx famously declared that while the philosophers have interpreted the world, the point is to change it, he was asserting that it was not enough to dream of another world nor to understand the dynamics of the present. It was critical above all to address the question of agency in carrying out transformative change.… Continue reading
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We Cannot Shop Our Way Out of the Problems John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Max van Lingen
I think people on the left often try to be “practical,” which they interpret as somehow trying to accommodate themselves to the status quo, so as to make minor improvements. Often this is a kind of desperation to effect change. However, Copenhagen is already a dead deal before it begins. The United States and the… Continue reading
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London Conference: A Model of Ecosocialist Collaboration By Ian Angus
On September 12, about 100 people attended ‘Climate and Capitalism,’ a one-day conference in London, England, organized by Green Left and Socialist Resistance. Continue reading
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Book Review: Climate Justice: Red is the New Green
The fight for climate justice, as that phrase is used in the title of this new anthology, comprises struggles around a compendium of related environmental and social issues. All of these struggles arise out of capitalism’s relentless assault on the natural resources of our planet and its exploitative systems of production and world trade. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 