Eco-socialism in an era of capitalist globalisation: Bridging the west and the east

Abstract

Eco-socialism as a red-green politics has progressed rapidly during the past decade, elaborating a distinctive diagnosis and prescription for the ever deteriorating environmental problems in the world today. Meanwhile, it seems quite clear that eco-socialism cannot function as a more convincing political discourse and influential practical movement for the green transformation until it effectively overcomes the enormous difficulties brought about by a capitalist globalisation. To meet these challenges, in the author's point of view, there is an urgent need for eco-socialism to focus on the following three tasks: to refine a coherent and convincing interpretation of the on-going process of globalisation, to make arduous efforts to assimilate the substance of environmentalism (ecologism); and to pay more attention to the political potential of non-and/or anti-capitalist ideas and practices in the contemporary East. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.