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We have witnessed in the last few days a massive mobilization in opposition to the overt racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville. What the corporate news does not talk about, argues Ajamu Baraka, is the "structures and institutions that provide the material base for Euro-American white supremacy and its ideological reproduction, [that] should be the focus of radical opposition. But the capitalist order and its institutions — the World Trade Organization, IMF, World Bank, and global Westernized higher education that serves as the material basis for hegemonic white supremacist power – escape critical scrutiny because popular attention is directed against a David Duke and a Donald Trump." We invite your discussion of this article posted to our website, and more, in our Forum.Other articles include: Michael Friedman replies to William Rees (who coined the term "small footprint") and his "Malthusian diagnoses and solutions" arguing the root of the climate crisis is capitalism, not demographics." Unions are taking a leadership role in Korea demanding a "just energy transition." Kevin Anderson defends his tweet about "collective stupidity," arguing "the academic community has remained pliant, the NGOs have been coopted, the policymakers run scared of their electorate and the economists have been hoodwinked..." Ron Jacobs reviews a new book by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams asking if we are on the "Eve of Destruction....Or Revolution."
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Racism, Neo-fascism, and the Ecosocialist Movement
Posted by Ted F.: Like Noam Chomsky, I think the two greatest threats to our survival are nuclear and environmental catastrophe. They are urgent and I identify with ecosocialism because I see it as the most promising way forward to confront these apocalyptic threats before the human experiment ends in failure. At the same time, I am constantly reminded that ecosocialism must do more than address our planetary ecological emergency with critiques of capitalism. Any socialism that aspires to delineate the path forward for the Left must address the full panoply of oppression that stands in the way of human progress.
The events in Charlottesville bring into sharp focus the truth that our perceptions of threats to survival depend on who we are. Although people of color, in the U.S. and throughout the world, will suffer disproportionately the harsh extremes of the changing climate and degraded earth systems, many activists of color are focusing their political energies on more immediate threats posed by police violence, immigration raids, poverty, and the new Jim Crow.
Keeanga-Yamahhta Taylor, the brilliant young African-American socialist, has penned a compelling response to Charlottesville that I find challenges us to recognize that an ecosocialism relevant to conditions in the United States must be an ecosocialism that responds to the resurgent racist, neo-fascist right-wing movement that is threatening the lives of people of color on the streets of America every day and every night.
How do we rise to this challenge? How do we create an ecosocialism that embraces the full range of liberation struggles in our time? How can this political and moral imperative guide our practice as activists?
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