Eco-socialism

Eco-socialism, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization.

Quotes

• An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
  • Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965).

• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
  • Murray Bookchin, What Is Social Ecology? (1984).

• It has been long understood that “consumer sovereignty” is a myth. To make fundamental changes in the commodity economy it is necessary to have power over production.
  • John Bellamy Foster, as quoted in A Resistance Movement for the Planet - Full Interview (July 02, 2017), Left Voice.

• Socialists have all too often failed to take ecological issues seriously enough. However, this is not a fault of socialists alone, as the fault applies even more to the liberal tradition taken as a whole. But whatever we choose to say about socialism in the twentieth century, it has to be emphasized that no one can be truly socialist and indeed Marxist in the twenty-first century and fail to acknowledge the full severity of the planetary ecological crisis. We are either at the forefront of the struggle to protect the earth as a place of human habitation (and as a home for innumerable species) or we are on the side of the system’s creative exterminism of the Earth system as we know it.
  • John Bellamy Foster, as quoted in A Resistance Movement for the Planet - Full Interview (July 02, 2017), Left Voice.

External links

• An ecosocialist manifesto by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy on Ozleft
• The Ecosocialist International Network
• Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (CNS) (Journal).
• The politics of ecosocialism - transforming welfare (book) (2015).
• Climate and Capitalism. (An online journal edited by Ian Angus).
• Democratic Socialist Perspective, Environment, Capitalism & Socialism (book) (1999).
• Extract from Ecology and Socialism by The Socialist Party of Great Britain on Common Voice
• Takis Fotopoulos, "Is de-growth compatible with a market economy?," The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2007).
• Another Green World: Derek Wall's Ecosocialist Blog
• Dan Jakopovich, "Green Unionism In Theory and Practice," Synthesis/Regeneration 43 (Spring 2007).
• (preview) Dan Jakopovich, "Uniting to Win: Labor-Environmental Alliances," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 20, Is. 2 (2009), pages 74–96
• Ecosocialism: A Weblog of Ecosocialist Opinion
• Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Replace Capitalism with Ecosocialism
• Robyn Eckersley, Ecosocialism: The Post-Marxist Svnthesis
• Robin Hahnel "Protecting the Environment in a Participatory Economy," Synthesis/Regeneration 34 (Spring 2004). Retrieved (31-03-2013).
• Ecosocialism: Where Anticapitalism and Ecology Intersect, video presentation by Ian Angus
• After Bali: The Global Fight for Climate Justice , video presentation by Patrick Bond
• The official site of "Ecosocialists Greece" Political Organization
• John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark "Capitalism and Ecological Destruction," Monthly Review (November 2009). Retrieved (31-03-2013).
• John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism" (book)
• Ecosocialist Horizons