Overview

"Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have no intention of radically changing their goals and methods to help create an environmentally sound or socially just global society. In order to confront this, the green movement must now develop coherent eco-socialist politics. People must control their own lives and their relationship with the environment. Drawing on Marx, Morris, Kropotkin and anarcho-syndicalism, David Pepper presents an anthropocentric analysis of the way forward for green politics and environmental movements. Establishing the elements of a radical eco-socialism, this study rejects biocentrism, simplistic limits to growth and over-population theses, whilst exposing the deficiencies and contradictions of green approaches to postmodern politics and deep ecology. ""Eco-socialism"" should provide students of ecology, politics and the environment with a thorough introduction to the ideologies of Marxism, anarchism and deep ecology, and the ways these can be synthesized into a radical green politics."

Full Product Details

Author:   David Pepper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415097192

ISBN 10:   0415097193
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   22 July 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 RED AND GREEN: OLD OR NEW POLITICS? 2 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: WHERE GREENS, MARXISTS AND ANARCHISTS FIT IN 3 THE MARXIST PERSPECTIVE ON NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM 4 ANARCHISM AND THE GREEN SOCIETY 5 CONCLUSION: SOCIALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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`This is an excellent and thoughtfully provocative introduction to examining environmental policy questions for the 1990s.' - M. Bristow, Manchester University

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