The Ecological Rift in the Anthropocene

—An interview with John Bellamy Foster on ecology, ecological imperialism and potential solutions to the ongoing planetary crisis

John Bellamy Foster, Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi and Michael Löwy

Whatever solutions there are to the present planetary crisis must, in historical-materialist terms, arise from concrete social formations, on the basis of which the new revolutionary transformations will take place. What is common to all such strategies is a focus on a path to sustainable human development in which capital accumulation is no longer the determinant force in society. The very definition of socialism in the twenty-first century is that of a society of ecological sustainability and substantive equality. Here too we find the conditions for the maximisation of freedom in general.


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