CAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISM

DECEMBER 29. 2023

Venezuela 2023: Oil and Water and Untelevised Revolution

This short story of a few chapters from the end of a century of oil in Venezuela, might open some windows through which that bright light might shine – from other side of the sanctions, live from t…

DECEMBER 11. 2023

Scenes from a Nightmare: The Imperialist Construction of Israel

Published in Capitalism Nature Socialism, 13 (3), September, 2002

DECEMBER 10. 2023

Zionism and Empire

Published in Capitalism Nature Socialism, 17: 4 (2006)

SEPTEMBER 17. 2023

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

The central case in Saito’s new book is that the more Marx learned of the metabolic rift, the more he embraced ecological and anti-colonial positions until ultimately he arrived at “degrowth commun…

A Critique of “Speculative Commodities”: Rethinking the Value and Commodification of Gem-Resources Under Extractive Capitalism

The process of diamond and gemstone commodification masks the exploitation of labour and the extractive practices that wreck the ecology and impair the health of local populations, and have a partic…

SEPTEMBER 16. 2023

Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss

Beautiful, powerful, and edifying, Stephen Buhner’s book is recommended to everyone who has felt the full scope of the environmental crisis and wants, at the very least, to encounter someone …

American Oil-Igarchy: How the Corporate Assault on Liberal Democracy and the Climate Are Connected

Given the hyper-competition for resources and market share in today’s global economy, the incessant expansion of the private property rights of capital are becoming increasingly antagonistic to the…

Ecosocialists and Degrowth Advocates Should Work Together

Arguing for transitional transformative progressive change should be a joint undertaking.