Why we need to grow an ecosocialist party in America (part 2)
When America is ready for ideas that work, we’ll need political leaders who are ready with ideas that work.
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Why we need to grow an ecosocialist party in America (part 1)
America has no idea how to live after the end of fossil fuels. When the country is ready to listen, ecosocialism can provide the answers it needs.
Degrowth can End the Cost of Living Crisis
While there are considerable political challenges involved in realizing the goals outlined here, we can improve the political feasibility of them by challenging the neoliberal narrative about the causes of the current crisis and its possible solutions.
Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core
A true climate justice agenda will need to be about demolishing the imperial arrangements enshrined in the global economy that are today leading to an ecological abyss.
One of Spain’s governing parties adopts degrowth
That we have to live within the limits of the planet was already clear; now we are going a step further and proposing that degrowth is a reality and that together we have to design a political roadmap so that this degrowth does not fall, as always, on the most vulnerable.
Keeping the world alive and healthy: The radical realism of the “forces of reproduction” – An interview with Stefania Barca
While capitalism has taught us to identify the first with money-making and the second with life-making – a necessary but nevertheless subordinated, dependent and qualitatively inferior activity – climate justice movements are claiming the progressive, i.e. egalitarian, emancipatory, and wealth-producing agency of reproductive forces.
Subverting imperial greenwashing
Max Ajl’s recent book published this year by Pluto Press, entitled A People’s Green New Deal, is a welcome and important contribution to an increasingly crowded and confused conversation on “green” futures.
Blueprints for impossible futures
Instead of offering another blueprint for an impossible future, Max Ajl’s A People’s Green New Deal levels a critique at the genre itself, raising significant questions about the way that plans are proffered, and how most green futures implicitly accept the ongoing violence of capitalist imperialism.
Book Review: A People’s Green New Deal
For those who complain that there is no clearly defined ecosocialist manifesto, Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto Press, 2021), attempts to fill that void.
Building Bridges from Intersectional Ecosocialism to Radical Climate Justice and Systemic Transformation
Openness, imagination, creativity, solidarity, compassion, love, joy, humor, and much more should be the words we keep handy in our pockets, our hands, and our hearts. Our heads will follow if we dedicate our lives to this.
What Might an Ecosocialist Society Look Like?
Before describing possible features of a future ecosocialism, it is worthwhile to consider why such a system is even needed. Why can’t the problems that ecosocialism would solve also be remedied within the current global capitalist system?
The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown
In order for the global climate justice movement to be successful, leadership must come from those who have been most acutely affected by climate change.