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    • THE END OF POLITICS: CORPORATE POWER AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
    • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL POWER: EMERGING FORMS OF RADICALISM IN THE WEST
    • THE TWO REVOLUTIONS: GRAMSCI AND THE DILEMMAS OF WESTERN MARXISM
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https://www.amazon.com/Ecology-Revolution-Political-Challenge-Environmental/dp/1137264039

ECOLOGY AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE by Carl Boggs    

Macmillan, 2012
This book is an in-depth exploration of the global ecological crisis in the larger context of historical conditions and political alternatives shaped by failure of the existing system to adequately confront the crisis.   Going far beyond the issue of global warming, the volume explores a range of solutions provided by liberals, environmental reformists, anarchists, and classical Marxists, revealing how ineffective each has been in meeting this unprecedented challenge.  The author calls for a distinctly radical option merging the European Green tradition, Marxism, and the force of modern popular movements.
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“After examining the ecological crisis afflicting humanity and the planet, Carl Boggs concludes that only a radical political solution can alleviate our problems.  For making such a clear call for systemic change, he will stand as a visionary scholar for generations to come.”      
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George Katsiaficas                                                                                                            
Author of Subversion of Politics
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“Grounding his critique in an approach drawn from Western Marxism, nonviolent resistance, and today’s new social movements, he persuasively articulates a post-liberal, post-Marxist transformative politics to create a more ecological economy and society based on democratic governance.”    
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Timothy W. Luke                                                                                                                 
​Political Science, Virginia Tech
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” 
― Isaac Asimov
  • HOME
  • BOOKS
    • FUGITIVE POLITICS: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECOLOGICAL SANITY
    • FACING CATASTROPHE: FOOD, POLITICS, AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
    • FASCISM OLD AND NEW: AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS
    • ORIGINS OF THE WARFARE STATE: WORLD WAR II AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS
    • DRUGS, POWER, AND POLITICS: NARCO WARS, BIG PHARMA, AND THE SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
    • ECOLOGY AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE
    • PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: CORPORATE INTERESTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA
    • EMPIRE VERSUS DEMOCRACY: THE TRIUMPH OF CORPORATE AND MILITARY POWER
    • THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE: ROGUE SUPERPOWER AND WORLD DOMINATION
    • THE HOLLYWOOD WAR MACHINE: U.S. MILITARISM AND POPULAR CULTURE
    • IMPERIAL DELUSIONS: AMERICAN MILITARISM AND ENDLESS WAR
    • A WORLD IN CHAOS: SOCIAL CRISIS AND THE RISE OF POSTMODERN CINEMA
    • MASTERS OF WAR: MILITARISM AND BLOWBACK IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
    • THE END OF POLITICS: CORPORATE POWER AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
    • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL POWER: EMERGING FORMS OF RADICALISM IN THE WEST
    • THE TWO REVOLUTIONS: GRAMSCI AND THE DILEMMAS OF WESTERN MARXISM
    • THE IMPASSE OF EUROPEAN COMMUNISM
    • THE POLITICS OF EUROCOMMUNISM: SOCIALISM IN TRANSITION
    • GRAMSCI'S MARXISM
  • ARTICLES
    • COUNTERPUNCH
    • FAST CAPITALISM
    • NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
    • DEMOCRACY AND NATURE
  • GUEST AUTHORS
    • PETER MCLAREN
  • BLOG
    • THE GREAT SOCIALIST MIRAGE
    • JANUARY SIXTH AS GODSEND
    • Bill MCKIBBEN, MARK BITTMAN, AND THE FOOD CATASTROPHE
    • THE TORN LEGACY OF FRANK WILKINSON
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