Capitalism

Noam Chomsky: Liberation Ecology

Javier Sethness, Truthout, April 19, 2014

There can be little doubt about the centrality and severity of the environmental crisis in the present day. Driven by the mindless "grow-or-die" imperative of capitalism, humanity's destruction of the biosphere has reached and even surpassed various critical thresholds, whether in terms of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, freshwater depletion, or chemical pollution.

Mike Davis & Rob Wallace on Covid, Capitalism & Ecology

Global Ecosocialist Network, YouTube, October 21, 2020

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Rob Wallace and Mike Davis are two of the world's leading left-wing thinkers and writers on the subject of the pandemic.

“Social Cost of Carbon”: What Price Existence?

Dave Jones, System Change Not Climate Change, September 12, 2020

Credit: Photo illustration by Laura Darling

One strategy for lowering CO2 emissions, favored by many environmental organizations and currently implemented in several states, is to formally impose a “social cost of carbon,” or SCC, at the point of production. Proponents claim that this would begin to ensure that previously “externalized costs” are accounted for in pricing mechanisms.

Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism

Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams, June 19, 2020

If you’ve been watching mainstream TV news programs lately, you’ve probably noticed that a number of corporate journalists—prodded by the marvelous protests against police violence—seem to have learned a new phrase, which they invoke regularly: “systemic racism.”

That’s an improvement from a dozen years ago, when some in establishment media were hailing our society as "post-racial" because of the election of President Obama.

Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change

Naomi Klein, Dissent, May 18, 2020

Green New Deal protest march - Sunrise Movement

The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.

Marxism in an age of catastrophe - capitalism created an era of plagues

Mike Davis, Socialist Worker, April 18, 2020

We live in an era of plagues because of capitalist development, argues socialist author Mike Davis. In this transcript from a conversation streamed live on April 11, 2020, Davis also says coronavirus has exposed the gap between a tiny rich elite and the rest of us—creating space to put forward socialist ideas.

Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.

Tithi Bhattacharya, Blog, April 2, 2020

Graffiti from Melbourne - Less Cops More Nurses

When I think back on this crisis in the years to come, two images will stay with me. One is of ordinary Italians singing to one another across balconies in solidarity with neighbors in isolation and caregivers on the frontlines. The other is that of the Indian police hosing down migrant workers and their children with bleach for ‘daring’ to walk cross country once their workplaces closed during lock down and no public transport was available for them to get home.