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18 Sep 09

GREEN LEFT: Green Left/Socialist Resistance seminar 12/9/2009

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30 Mar 09

Ecosocialist International Network: What’s Next? : Climate and Capitalism

The Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Belem was a success - what do we do next? This article by Joel Kovel aims to initiate an international discussion on that question.

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Ecology Socialism

the Ecosocialist International Network was founded on the Seventh of October, 2007 in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil
Three principles define the EIN and unite its members — recognition of the ecocidal character of capital accumulation; the necessity for a socialist alternative as a model for surpassing capital; and the requirement that this new, or “eco” socialism must do more than deal with the toxic effects of accumulation, but needs also solve the great problem of social production: how to live within limits set down by ecological necessity.

14 Feb 09

Another Green World: Why Cuba Matters?

Good post on Cuba's anti-Leninist path and its importance as a model for peak oil and agriculture and its relation to the Bolivarian Revolution.

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Cuba Socialism Ecology Environmentalism Leninism Revolution AntiImperialism AntiAmerica LatinAmerica Venezuela Bolivia FidelCastro CheGuevara

In these circumstances an a priori socialist program would only have been a hindrance: the strength of the revolution derived from its consensual and inclusive character. When socialism was declared, it was more a reflection of the new reality, an unexpected state of affairs which had come about as a result of a dialectical process. The strength of the popular demand for self-determination and social justice combined with the monopolistic structure of the Cuban plantation economy and the direct and inevitable confrontation with U.S. imperialism made a socialist solution the only viable way forward from early 1960 onwards if the revolution were not to collapse through division and incoherence.
This is to my mind more than just a peculiarity of the Cuban process: it confirms the implications of Gramsci’s argument that for proletarian ideology—Marxist theory—to triumph, it must win the battle for hegemony and become “common sense.” Or to put it another way, the abstractions of Marxist theory must gel with the popular democratic traditions of a specific country before they can become hegemonic. This is perhaps the crucial error of most Communist (and also Trotskyist) parties: the idea that by preaching abstract Marxist-Leninist doctrine they can build an effective mass revolutionary movement.
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- Furthermore, the Cubans have been explicit in saying that they do not regard their own socialism as a blueprint to be copied. What Cuba provided was a living example, a demonstration that contrary to the conventional wisdom of the “New World Order,” the state is not powerless and that it is possible to build and maintain a noncapitalist alternative. What was not possible was to reproduce the Cuban strategy of armed revolution, and this was the great contribution of Chávez and the Venezuelans: to devise a new strategy which was neither purely military nor purely electoral, but a combination of popular mobilization, elections, and military support.
- It can be argued that, while the Soviet tie was necessary at the time for the revolution’s survival in the Cold War context, it did lead to undesirable distortions in Cuban socialism, and that today Cuba, freed from the Soviet straitjacket and assisted by its Latin neighbors, is rediscovering its originality.

31 Jan 09

www.EcosocialistNetwork.org

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Ecology socialism environmentalism politics

21 Jan 09

Course: AN53021A/AN71028A Anthropology of the Environment

Seems very hip this week

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13 Jan 09

Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism - Monthly Review

it is important to recognize that there is now an ecology as well as a political economy of revolutionary change. The emergence in our time of sustainable human development in various revolutionary interstices within the global periphery could mark the be

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KarlMarx SocialEcology Socialism Ecology Capitalism

21 Oct 08

Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants : Planetsave

A new amended law in Switzerland protects the dignity of vegetation.

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Ecology Law DeepEcology Switzerland Plants Environment

13 Oct 08

Welcome to Appropedia - Appropedia: The sustainability wiki

Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.

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Sustainability Wiki Environment Energy Green Technology Ecology Architecture Poverty Solar OpenSource Economics Development Design Activism

30 Sep 08

WorldChanging: Green Computing Update, Part 4: Computers As Green Tools

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Ecology Environmentalism Computer Technology

21 May 08

EmergySystems.Org

This site is designed to aid in the research and teaching of emergy systems theory. Our mission is to provide a locus for those interested in obtaining information about the theory, concepts and principles of emergy systems and systems ecology.

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Ecology Energy Environment

15 May 08