Ecosocialism vs. the Green New Deal
One could ask, from the perspective of the left, does the Green New Deal go far enough? Does it address the fundamental assumptions of the US economy that led to climate catastrophe?
By Political Animal|2019-03-28T02:21:20+00:00February 21st, 2019|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
One could ask, from the perspective of the left, does the Green New Deal go far enough? Does it address the fundamental assumptions of the US economy that led to climate catastrophe?
By Craig Collins|2019-03-27T17:53:58+00:00February 15th, 2019|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
...like industrial capitalism, alienation pervaded every aspect of life under industrial “socialism.”
By Craig Collins|2019-03-27T18:19:34+00:00December 21st, 2018|Justice, Theory|0 Comments
An Article in Two Parts, by Craig Collins Part One: Socialist Mythology vs. Statist Reality The founders of “scientific socialism,”
By Political Animal|2019-03-27T20:42:08+00:00November 23rd, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
An Interview with Victor Wallis on WHOWHATWHY Progressive politicians from Bernie Sanders to new Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have grown increasingly bold in calling
By Political Animal|2019-03-30T21:03:18+00:00November 1st, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Christian Stache interviews Victor Wallis about resistance in the German Hambach Forest, class politics, technology, progress and an ecological-economic conversion.
By Craig Collins|2019-03-27T20:51:09+00:00October 5th, 2018|Practice|4 Comments
by Craig Collins I’m a fossil fuel junkie. I drive a car and use electricity. My computer, TV, telephone, refrigerator,
By Craig Collins|2019-03-27T21:26:58+00:00August 28th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Globalization and capitalist growth are powered by abundant fossil fuels. As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase.
By Craig Collins|2019-03-27T21:30:08+00:00August 24th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
In a growth-less economy, the profit motive can have a powerful catabolic impact on society. The word "catabolism" comes from the Greek and is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living thing feeds on itself. Catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing economic system.
By Victor Wallis|2019-03-28T02:13:28+00:00July 14th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Socialism arose historically as a response to capitalism. Its point of departure is the contention that capital is a social product—the fruit of countless hours/days/years of labor expended by hundreds of millions of people—and therefore that it should be under social control, i.e., under the control of the whole society
By Political Animal|2021-02-23T02:20:09+00:00June 29th, 2018|Meta|0 Comments
Victor Wallis, author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism" a definitive work of environmental political philosophy.