[D66] Wat is eco-Marxism?

R.O. jugg at ziggo.nl
Sun Oct 4 17:26:38 CEST 2020


(GL valt hier niet onder denk ik zo..)

https://mronline.org/2018/05/28/eco-marxism-and-deforestation/

2. The Eco-Marxist perspective

Eco-Marxism is a political ideology that fuses the Marxist doctrine of 
anti-capitalism with ecology, anti-globalisation and various 
pro-environment policies. The birth of Eco-Marxism was likely due to a 
vacuum in the science discourse, in that ecology does not have a social 
analysis. Ecology alone lacks the capacity to fully understand and 
unpack the ever-changing economic and political climate in the world. 
Eco-Marxists view the expansion of capitalism through globalisation as 
one of the root causes of environmental degradation, war, inequality and 
poverty (Kovel and Lowy, 2001). Eco-Marxists, though inspired by Karl 
Marx and his critique of capital, are sometimes critical of many 
socialist policies but they maintain their platform of Green politics as 
a foundation of their movement.

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