Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the future — and use state power now to impose a drastic reordering of our economies.
Source: “To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism”
Although the effort to find a basis for ecological issues in marx is of great historical importance, the danger is that the new claim for the ecological marx(ism) threatens to implicate ecologists in the marxist dogmatic system. Blending historical materialism and ecology won’t work and will reduce ecology to a form of marxist scientism.
Source: Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective – 622167f851b636d3d9556fdda4e4482bd3c4.pdf
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE discusses Kohei Saito’s book, Marx’s Eco-socialism: capital, nature and the unfinished critique of political economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017). It is based on her talk at a…
Source: Reading Marx on ecology: “capitalism generates an unrepairable physical rift” | People and Nature
Our many discussions of ‘democratic market neo-communism’ have focused on a new approach: to consider socialism in one country to get socialist economics in place: but the parallel issue of an international arises at once and the obvious vacuum of any left can be seen in projecting the need for a global response team to save the Amazon….
These fires were set on purpose and Bolsonaro is to blame.
Source: The Fires in the Amazon Were Set on Purpose | Left Voice
Although it is important to try and reexamine Marx in terms of ecological issues it is misleading and counterproductive in the end to try and second guess him or to attempt to make ecology fit his work in the vein of Marx is always right and the codification of marxism as a theological system. The reverse is needed to make a new leftist synthesis in which ecology and socialism are blended from the start.
If the marxists at Monthly Review wish to ecologize marxist boilerplate let’s see if they can do the same for darwinism, which Marx initially rejected on sight and then, in a compromise we suspect, embraced dishonestly as a party line…
Perhaps Monthly Review can expose the darwinian class genocide of the left, resurrect Marx’s expose of Darwin the ideologist and free the left of its murderous ‘class warfare’ as class extermination….
Source: On Marx and Ecosocialism
Our ecological DMNC model could mostly resolve at a stroke all the tricky issues involved in a serious Green New Deal…?
The socialist left needs to construct a completed model of an ecological version of a postcapitalist economy: our ‘democratic market neo-communism’ could resolve at once all the problems with the Green New Deal and balance/harmonize economic/socialist/political contradictions…
Source: R48G: ECO-DMNC: a new framework ready effective immediately – 1848+: The End(s) of History
A review of Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth.. Near where I live, in Pacifica California, there is a big piece of land right at the ocean that was once slated to be the site of a giant freeway
Source: Creating a Home through the Green New Deal | Common Dreams Views
Communism and gaian stewardship June 14th, 2018 • As examine the eonic effect it dawns on us that evolution has to be a global process: the idea of piecemeal evolution is unrealistic as science eve…
Source: Communism as Gaian ecological socialism – 1848: The End(s) of History
