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In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Michael Löwy argues that capitalism is killing the planet—and offers a competing vision of radical, ecosocialist transformation.
This expanded and revised edition foregrounds Löwy’s canonical essays, from sharp critiques of environmentalist complicity to deep dives into Marxist texts. Löwy offers an incisive critique of the destructive logic of capitalism, tracing the intimate link between the struggle against the commodification of the world and the defense of the environment. Moving between theory and practice, he looks to activists around the world, especially in Latin America, to push readers to dream bigger about what might become possible.
Real change requires a complete reorganization of our modes of production and consumption—a fundamental shift, rooted in democratic planning, toward a society where both human and planetary needs are valued. Prescient, shrewd, and deeply hopeful, Ecosocialism is an indispensable introduction for people unsatisfied with mainstream “solutions” to climate change—and will also challenge committed environmentalists to deepen their analysis of the climate crisis.
“Michael Löwy is unquestionably a tremendous figure in the decades-long attempt to recover an authentic revolutionary tradition from the wreckage of Stalinism.” —Counterfire
Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He is the author of The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx, Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark, Revolutions, On Changing the World, The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, and, with Olivier Besancenot, Marx in Paris, 1871. His books have been translated into twenty-nine languages.
Preface: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind
Part One: What Is Ecosocialism?
Chapter One: What Is Ecosocialism?
Chapter Two: Ecosocialism and Democratic Planning
Chapter Three: Marx and Ecology
Chapter Four: From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism
Part Two: Ecosocialist Sparks
Chapter Five: Chico Mendes and the Brazilian Struggle for the Amazonian Forest
Chapter Six: Eleven Wrong Ideas on the Climate
Chapter Seven: Thirteen Theses on the (Imminent) Ecological Catastrophe and the (Revolutionary) Means of Conjuring It
Chapter Eight: Ecodecalogue
Appendix One: International Ecosocialist Manifesto (2001)
Appendix Two: The Belém Declaration (2009)
Appendix Three: The Lima Ecosocialist Declaration (2022)
Appendix Four: Copenhagen 2049