DSA Ecosocialist Resources

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**John Bellamy Foster, "Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism"**

//[[https://monthlyreview.org/2008/11/01/ecology-and-the-transition-from-capitalism-to-socialism/|Monthly Review]]//, November 2008 60(6)

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"My argument has three parts. First, it is crucial to understand the intimate connection between classical Marxism and ecological analysis. Far from being an anomaly for socialism, as we are often led to believe, ecology was an essential component of the socialist project from its inception—notwithstanding the numerous later shortcomings of Soviet-type societies in this respect. Second, the global ecological crisis that now confronts us is deeply rooted in the “world-alienating” logic of capital accumulation, traceable to the historical origins of capitalism as a system. Third, the transition from capitalism to socialism is a struggle for sustainable human development in which societies on the periphery of the capitalist world system have been leading the way."

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