Commodity accumulation leads people to identify with the means of destruction. We must aim to disintegrate links in the chain of capital reproduction.
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Archive | Ecosocialism
The movement we need
Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World
How can climate justice activists stop capitalism’s drive to catastrophe? The author of Fossil Capital considers lessons from past revolutions and proposes an action program for today.
Interview with Zafer Ülger
Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Turkish socialist describes growing understanding that Marx’s ideas on ecology are important, and that the oppression of labor, women and oppressed peoples is not separate from the crisis of nature and ecosystems
Facing the Anthropocene
‘A contribution to a genuinely materialist ecology’
Éric Pineault’s preface to the French edition of Facing the Anthropocene: “Ian Angus offers a critique of capitalist modernity based on a vision of liberation shaped by the recognition of substantial and real ecological limits”
Book Review
The progress of this storm:
Nature and society in a warming world
Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action
Essential reading
Paul Burkett on Kohei Saito’s ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’
The author of Marx and Nature evaluates and introduces an important new book on the deep connections between natural science and political economy in Marx’s work
Readers' choices
Top ten Climate & Capitalism articles in 2017
The 109 articles we published in Climate & Capitalism in 2017 were read by more people than ever before. These were the most popular …
Facing the Anthropocene
“An accessible and convincing case for ecosocialism”
“This necessary book details the full spectrum of environmental issues facing us today, demonstrates their scientific and political causes, and delivers a sobering warning”
Interview: JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER
Capitalism, exterminism and the long ecological revolution
C&C begins the new year with an extensive interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, about the need to fight for a revolutionary ecosocialist alternative to the profit-driven world capitalist system.
reading, red and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2017
Six new books on democratic eco-socialism, war and the environment, genes and intelligence, climate change and the Roman Empire, the little ice age in North America, and views of the Anthropocene
Two views
Debate: Should ecosocialists oppose population growth?
In ‘A Redder Shade of Green,’ did Ian Angus unfairly criticize people who believe overpopulation is a major environmental problem?
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
Essential Books on Marxism and Ecology
As the great American labor organizer and socialist Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones said: “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
Ecosocialist critique
John Bellamy Foster on Jacobin and Ecomodernism
The editor of Monthly Review responds to ‘socialists’ who view the environmental crisis as a problem of technology, not a fundamental rift in society’s relationship with nature.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
MR Press launches pathbreaking new books on ecosocialism
Kohei Saito, Ian Angus, Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams offer powerful, historically grounded arguments and a way forward for society and the earth
Reading, green and red
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2017
Six new books on Marx’s ecosocialist views, climate change and health, theory and action, inevitability versus contingency in evolution, new politics, and the meaning of Capital
Ecosocialist Debate
Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
Ecosocialist Debate
Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
Climate & Capitalism readers David Schwartzman and David Walters respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine’s special issue on climate change.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
What are the essential books on ecosocialism?
HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?
Book Review
In the Anthropocene, environmentalists must join wider battles
In ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ Ian Angus shows that the earth system crisis originated in specific developments in late capitalism arising out of WWII. He also tells us who our enemies are.
Book Review
Creating an Ecological Society: Living well is the best revolution
The authors’ command of ecology is not limited to Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. They lay out the facts of the eco-crisis and potential cures, minus cant and jargon.