Wednesday 30 July 2008

If Socialism Fails: The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism

"Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution." by Ian Angus from Socialist Voice, Canada 28 July 2008 From the first day it appeared online, Climate and Capitalism's masthead has carried the slogan "Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way." We've been quite clear that ecosocialism is not a new theory or brand of socialism — it is socialism with Marx's important insights on ecology restored, socialism committed to the fight against ecological destruction. But why do we say that the alternative to ecosocialism is barbarism?