Capitalism – Page 3 – Radical Ecological Democracy

REDWeb Anniversary Series – “From Socialism to Eco-socialism – Turning Points On a Personal Journey Through The Marxist Theory of Socialism”

September 14, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Democracy, Development, Ecology, New Politics, Power Dynamic

REDWeb completes its first year in September, and Saral Sarkar launches our anniversary initiative to understand and assess the work of Karl Marx in the context of the search for transformative alternatives. Sarkar uses his considerable experience as an analyst and an activist to help us fathom the immense integrity of Marx’s work as well as its imperfections. In this world ravaged and battered by ecological crises and economic peril for the vast majority of people, could eco-socialism be that viable path towards meaningful transformation that Marx had imagined and parsed for us?

Action Agenda Ideas News Stories

Reflections on the Founding of the First Ecosocialist International

September 5, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Community, Democracy, Ecology, New Politics, Power Dynamic, Revolutionary Struggle, Society

The search for transformative alternatives to the current miasma of neoliberalism is very much on. Ecosocialism is one such idea finding resonance in many parts of the world. Quincy Saul recounts the thinking and the efforts behind the founding of the First Ecosocialist International.

Action Agenda Analysis Ideas Stories

Small and Shared vs McMansions and Slums

August 3, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Community, Cooperatives, Environment, Innovation, New Economy, Sustainability

Contemporary urban housing has become an economic and environmental mess, a festering problem forever dodging solutions. Anitra Nelson explores the way out of the crisis and discusses the role cohousing could play in rejuvenating the urban space.

Action Agenda Ideas Stories

Mapping Grassroots Solutions: Lessons learned from the Utah Resilience Map Project

August 2, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Community, Democracy, Development, Environment, New Politics, Power Dynamic

As grassroots solutions to the current neoliberal orthodoxy emerge all around us, it is important to figure out a way to make them physically accessible for people. Emily Nicolosi writes about the Utah Resilience Map, a path breaking effort putting alternatives emerging in and around Salt Lake City on a map. It’s a bold initiative which challenges the stranglehold of corporate online mapping and an emerging template for replication at other places.

Agenda Analysis Ideas Stories

RED Conversations Series – “Alternative Futures: India Unshackled”

July 14, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Community, Conservation, Cooperatives, Democracy, Development, Ecology, Energy, Environment, New Economy, New Politics, Power Dynamic

Ashish Kothari was recently on a book tour in the U.S., promoting “Alternative Futures: India Unshackled”, a book he recently co-edited with K.J. Joy. Here, he discusses the main themes of the book with Pallav Das and an audience at “Busboys and Poets”, an activist book-store in Washington D.C.

Analysis Ideas Stories

Engaging with the Plutocene

May 14, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Development, Ecology, Environment, New Economy, New Politics, Policy, Sustainability

The neoliberal dispensation governing the world is pushing it towards an ecological catastrophe while ensuring the economic and political supremacy of an entrenched elite class. Using an income-based class perspective, Marko Ulvilla and Kristoffer Wilen discuss the ways in which we could create ecologically sustainable and socially equitable post-growth societies.

Conversations Ideas Stories

RED Conversations Series

May 3, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Community, Cooperatives, Democracy, Development, Innovation, New Economy

Ashish Kothari interviews Joel Morist I Botines of Cooperativa Integral Catalana to understand the new thrust of the cooperative movement in Catalonia and how it can be an accessible template for the rest of the world.

Analysis Ideas Stories

The Green Party of Germany – From Beacon of Hope to a Bog-standard Party

April 19, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Climate, Community, Conservation, Democracy, Ecology, Environment

How do we think about alternative politics in light of the current stresses on the environment and the phenomenal increase in inequality, worldwide? Probably, the best place to start is to learn from similar experiments which took place in recent history. Saral Sarkar helps us understand the intellectual debate on the economy, ecology and social relations that took place within “green” politics in Germany, and its ramifications for the contemporary search for alternatives.

Conversations Stories

RED Conversations Series

April 4, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Cooperatives, Democracy, Development, Environment, New Economy, New Politics

Ashish Kothari interviews Enric Duran for REDWeb. Enric is an activist challenging the power of monopolist banks and the founder of Faircoop, an open global cooperative.

Agenda Analysis

Finding Pathways to a Better Future

December 16, 2017April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Democracy, Ecology, Environment, Politics, Power Dynamic, Society

2017 has seen the kindling of resistance to global capitalism and the accompanying elite rule. John Foran gives us an insight into the ideological imperative of the movements leading that charge, and outlines the possible path towards an ecologically just and economically egalitarian future.

Analysis Policies Stories

How an Ecuadorian Community is Showing Its Government How to Really Live Well

December 16, 2017April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Climate, Community, Democracy, Development, Environment, Politics, Power Dynamic

After a fiery start in the early 2000s, progressive intent and revolutionary rhetoric are finding it difficult to usher in a meaningful transformation in South America. Neema Pathak-Broome and Ashish Kothari explain how the left in Ecuador is facing up to its dilemmas.

Analysis Ideas

Radical Ecological Economics

November 16, 2017April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Democracy, Development, Environment, Power Dynamic, Sustainability

There is a growing body of work in economics challenging the orthodoxy of free-market fundamentalism as well as exposing its link to rampant environmental degradation all over the world. David Barkin explains the incisive inroads Ecological Economics has made and the promise it holds in our search for an alternative to the dangerous myth of “endless growth”.

Analysis

Is There A Way Out?

September 27, 2017December 21, 2017 Capitalism, Climate Change, Colonialism, Development, Environment, Innovation, Nature, New Economy, Policy, Politics, Power Dynamic, Society

There’s much that makes us feel despondent in the contemporary world – climate change, economic inequality, social discord and a sense of intense personal ennui. How do we move towards solutions which restore sanity to our existence and connect us to others in our communities and to nature? Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das explain the idea, conviction and commitment behind an attempt at documenting some of the serious efforts being made in that direction.

Conversations Ideas

Ecofeminism and Radical Ecological Democracy

September 27, 2017April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Colonialism, Democracy, Development, Ecology, Feminism, Politics, Socialism

Ariel Salleh, the renowned scholar and activist, and Ashish Kothari discuss the salience of Ecofeminism as well as the emerging issues in its study and practice.