Eco-Socialism For Now and the Future

Practical Utopias and Rational Action

Robert Albritton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 132 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-05182-2 (ISBN)

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It is increasingly apparent that capitalism cannot stave off the truly frightening ecological disasters that threaten the future of life on earth. Is it an accident that the strongest and most capitalist economic force in the world, the US, is also that force that is most prone to the denial of the enormous dangers of global warming? While capitalism is a global force, it is not supported by the majority of the world, and much more thought and action is needed to integrate and globalize movements against oppression, injustice and ecological destruction.
While changes at a local level are important and more feasible in our current world, ultimately changes at a global level may have greater long-term importance, and we need to greatly expand theorizations and mobilizations in this direction now. Robert Albritton proposes 'practical utopias' as a process of thinking by which short-term changes tend in the direction of desirable changes in the longterm.

Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on capitalist theory and political economy.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Rethinking Time and Space.- Chapter 2. Hobbes and Locke: "Fear of Death, Poverty or Other Calamity.- Chapter 3. Marx's Devastating Critique of Capitalism.- Chapter 4. Ethics and Education: Possessive Individualism Versus Global Caring.- Chapter 5. The Super Rich: Billions Versus Poverty.- Chapter 6. Ever Expanding Militarism.- Chapter 7. Why So Many Guns and Prisons?.- Chapter 8. Water and Land.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: "Time and Tides Wait for No One".

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 132 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	324 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Apocalypse economics • Capitalism • Climate Change Economics • ecojustice • Ecological economics • Economic Governance • Economic Sociology • Economics of Globalization • Economics of neoliberalism • Eco-socialism • Environmental economics • Financial Crises • Global Governance • Natural resource economics • Political economy of global warming • possessive individualism • Resource Scarcity • Sustainability and economics • United Nations
ISBN-10	3-030-05182-X / 303005182X
ISBN-13	978-3-030-05182-2 / 9783030051822
Zustand	Neuware