eco-socialism

Environmental socialist ideology

Eco-socialism is a political ideology combining environmentalism with socialist economics, arguing that capitalism's drive for profit is fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability.

Adherents advocate for collective ownership of resources and democratic planning to address climate change: Eco-socialism offers a framework for thinking about environmental justice.

The movement gained traction as mainstream climate solutions increasingly seemed inadequate.

ideology

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

communism · proletariat · bourgeoisie · dialectical · materialism · cooperative · classless · revolution · stateless · utopianism

environmentalism

degrowth

Intentional economic contraction movement

biocentrism · ecofeminism · commons · conservation · carbon-neutral · sustainable · emissions · steady-state · Anthropocene

activism

grassroots

Common people as political base

petition · boycott · campaign · advocacy · sit-in · picketing · divestment · blockade

egalitarianism

equity

Impartial treatment or ownership value

universalism · redistribution · communalism · solidarity · cooperation · democracy · emancipation · classlessness · commons · participatory

Opposites
economic system

eco-socialismcapitalism

Private profit-based economy

laissez-faire economics · neoliberalism · corporate capitalism · anarcho-capitalism · privatization

environmental approach

eco-socialismgreenwashing

False sustainability claims

green growth · carbon trading

relationship to nature and growth

eco-socialismindustrial capitalism

Factory-based profit-driven economy

climate denial · resource exploitation · hyperconsumerism

Family

social, society, socialism, ecology, ecological, sociology, environmentalist, ecologist, environmentalism

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