Michael Löwy

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.

A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

Ecosocialism

Michael Lšwy

Praise for On Changing the World: "His collection of essays, combining scholarship with passion, impresses by its sweep and scope."—Daniel Singer Ecosocialists believe that the prevention of an unprecedented ecological catastrophe and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life are incompatible with the expansive and destructive logic of the capitalist system. The present collection of articles explores some of the main ecosocialist proposals and some concrete experiences of struggle, particularly in Latin America. Michael Löwy is emerit Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books have been translated into twenty-nine languages.

madina

Rationality limited by the capitalist market, with its shortsighted calculation of profit and loss, stands in intrinsic contradiction to ecological rationality, which takes into account the length of natural cycles. It is not a matter of contrasting “bad” ecocidal capitalists to “good” green capitalists; it is the system itself, based on ruthless competition, the demands of profitability, and the race for rapid profit, which is the destroyer of nature’s balance.

Katarína Fialová

"On all levels, local, regional, and international, we are fighting to create an alternative system based on social and ecological justice." - I wish this wasn't just utopia. <3

Tomasz

Czytając wstęp starałem się przymknąć oko na antynaukowe brednie o zagrożeniu z elektrowni jądrowej, ale w I rozdziale już mamy groźby drugiego Czarnobyla i rzekomo olbrzymie ilości odpadów. A pozostałe źródła to co? Energetyka słoneczna kwitowana jest stwierdzeniem, że trzeba więcej badań. Co za dwójmyślenie, to do EJ już nie trzeba, bo wszystko wiadomo? A na panele fotowoltaiczne to jakie surowce idą?

Książka traktująca o podstawach ekosocjalizmu, łopatologicznie tłumacząca ten nurt. Ale na Zielone brednie nie mam jednak siły.

Ecosocialism A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

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