degrowth

Harry Fairless — In the face of the multifaceted, compounding environmental catastrophe confronting humanity as a result of capitalism, what is required is not just socialism but ecosocialism.

Mark Baugher — The ‘Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution’ puts the cart before the horse. It commences a struggle against capitalist lifestyles before winning the struggle against the capitalist system that breeds those lifestyles.

Don Fitz — Stan Cox’s ‘Anthropause’ does what far too few degrowth books do by focusing on the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff.

Daniel Tanuro — An emergency plan for social and ecological justice is only possible if it is linked to a fight for the political power.

Peter Boyle — Any significant revolutionary change that takes place this century will have to do so amid catastrophic global climate change.

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.

What’s behind the sudden surge in interest in rare earth minerals? Phil Hearse investigates.

The Fourth International has publishing this Manifesto because it is convinced that the process of ecosocialist revolution, at different territorial levels but with a planetary dimension, is more necessary than ever.

Ståle Holgersen — Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide.

Ian Angus talks about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth and ecosocialism.

Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.

Monthly Review — The myth of Prometheanism in Marx’s thought, revived by two opposite extremes on the issue, has resulted in the erection a “Tower of Babel” that threatens to extinguish much that has been achieved by Marxian ecology.