Deep Ecology versus Ecosocialism

Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism says deep ecology is not compatible with ecosocialism and is “anti-human” at core as well as being politically and morally bankrupt.

He cites an article by deep ecology advocate Saral Sarkar who says Bolivia must allow large tracts to land to become wilderness again and to eject, presumably forcibly [...]

Socialist Voice relaunches

Check their Ecosocialism and the Fight Against Global Warming interview with editor Ian Angus.

Ecosocialism has grown out of two parallel political trends — the spread of Marxist ideas in the green movement and the spread of ecological ideas in the Marxist left. The result is a set of social and political goals, a growing [...]

Socialism today must be Green

Derek Wall, Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales, has an excellent overview of ecosocialism and its increasing relevance and importance to the Left in Britain and Europe.

Many European Green Parties, in my view have moved to the centre ground and need an injection of ecosocialism if they are to [...]

Marx was a greenie

“When we look at the real history of the emergence of ecological thinking and science, there can be little doubt that Marxists and socialists were forerunners of it. They were many of the principal figures in the development of ecological thought and science. So the notion that socialists came to this field late is completely [...]

A red-green future

From an interview with Derek Hall, writer, economist, and Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Capitalism is based on infinite economic growth, that is ecologically impossible and social injust. So if we are to tackle ecological crisis we need socialism, capitalism is totalitarian, everything ends up being based on the [...]

Ecosocialist links

An Ecosocialist Manifesto

Climate and Capitalism Ian Angus blogs extensively on ecosocialism

Another Green World From Derek Wall, Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Marxsite. Ecosocialism Lots of linksGreen Socialist magazine (UK)

Capitalism Nature Socialism magazine

Green Left (Australia)

Green Lefts, Left Greens (Australia)

Ecosocialism.blogspot.com good stuff, but hasn’t posted [...]

Capitalism is ecologically unsustainable

From the Ecosocialist manifesto

The capitalist world system is historically bankrupt. It has become an empire unable to adapt, whose very gigantism exposes its underlying weakness. It is, in the language of ecology, profoundly unsustainable, and must be changed fundamentally, nay, replaced, if there is to be a future worth living.

Capitalism, by its nature, [...]

Ecosocialism and open source

The generalization of ecological production under socialist conditions can provide the ground for the overcoming of the present crises. A society of freely associated producers does not stop at its own democratization. It must, rather, insist on the freeing of all beings as its ground and goal. It overcomes thereby the imperialist impulse both subjectively [...]

An ecosocialist manifesto

Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy presented the Ecosocialist Manifesto in 2001 as a socialist response to the environmental degradation of the planet.

We believe that the present capitalist system cannot regulate, much less overcome, the crises it has set going. It cannot solve the ecological crisis because to do so requires setting limits upon accumulation—an [...]

Toward a solution to global warming

Bob’s post, “Ecosocialism or collapse,” got me thinking about the challenge of global climate change in a new light. In the post, he quotes Richard A. Smith on “three principles for an ecosocialist economy to save us from collapse.” These can be summarized as (1) economy of stasis, (2) production for need (as opposed to [...]