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Ecosocialism

A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

by Michael Löwy

Published by: Haymarket Books

Imprint: Haymarket Books

144 Pages, 5.50 x 7.50 in

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9781608464715
Published: May 2015

$16.00

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Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines an understanding of the destructive logic of the capitalist system with an appreciation for ongoing struggles, particularly in Latin America.

Preface : Before the Flood

1) What is ecosocialism ?
2) Ecosocialism and Democratic Planning
3) Ecology and advertisement
4) Chico Mendes and the Brazilian struggle for the Amazonian forest
5) Eco-social struggles of indigenous peoples in Latin America

Michael Löwy is Research Director in Sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. He is the author of many books, including The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx and, with Olivier Besancenot, Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy.

Praise for On Changing the World:

"His collection of essays, combining scholarship with passion, impresses by its sweep and scope."
—Daniel Singer, author, Prelude to Revolution

"Michael Löwy is unquestionably a tremendous figure in the decades-long attempt to recover an authentic revolutionary tradition from the wreckage of Stalinism, and these essays are very often powerful examples of this process."
—Dominic Alexander, Counterfire

Ecosocialism

A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

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