Creating an Ecological Socialist Future

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 23-40

  Gare, Arran ^a  

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CAPITALISM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0033853428     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455750009358911     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Zygmunt Bauman, "Time and Class," Arena Journal, New Series, 10, 1988, p. 77. This is the subject of Manuel Castells' monumental three volume study, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Oxford: Blackwells, 1996-98), esp. Volume 1, The Rise of the Network Society.
2. Zygmunt Bauman, "Time and Class," Arena Journal, New Series, 10, 1988, p. 77. This is the subject of Manuel Castells' monumental three volume study, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Oxford: Blackwells, 1996-98), esp. Volume 1, The Rise of the Network Society.
3. Zygmunt Bauman, "Time and Class," Arena Journal, New Series, 10, 1988, p. 77. This is the subject of Manuel Castells' monumental three volume study, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Oxford: Blackwells, 1996-98), esp. Volume 1, The Rise of the Network Society.
4. Bauman, op. cit.
5. For an analysis of this, see Stephen G. Bunker in Underdeveloping the Amazon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) and the essays in Martin O'Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable? (New York: Guilford Press, 1994).
6. For an analysis of this, see Stephen G. Bunker in Underdeveloping the Amazon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) and the essays in Martin O'Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable? (New York: Guilford Press, 1994).
7. Paul Brown, The Guardian Weekly, 159, 19, November 8, p. 1, reporting on "Climate Change and its Impacts: Some Highlights from the Ongoing UK Research Programme: A First Look at Results from the Hadley Centre's new Climate Model."
8. Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), p. 273.
9. Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, Louis Wirth and Edward Shils, trans. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1936), p. 253.
10. Ibid. p. 262.
11. Ricoeur, op. cit., p. xxi.
12. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "The German Ideology," The Marx-Engels Reader, second edition (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 160.
13. Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophic Manuscipts of 1844," ibid., p. 82f.
14. Marx and Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party," ibid., p. 490.
15. Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, S.W. Ryazaskaya, trans. (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970), p. 211.
16. On this, see Stewart R. Clegg, Frameworks of Power (London: Sage, 1989), p. 242ff.
17. The best analysis of this consumerism and its insatiability is provided by Baudrillard. See Mark Poster, ed., Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988).
18. This is the "second contradiction" of capitalism.
19. Bunker, in op. cit., shows how this has occurred.
20. "Manifesto of the Communist Party," op. cit., p. 491.
21. Some idea of the creative response to globalization coming from Europe can be gained from Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann, The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Democracy and Prosperity [1996], Peter Carmiller, trans. (London: Zed Books, 1997).
22. John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997), p. 94.
23. See James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution [1942] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962). The new phase of the managerial revolution involves managers using their positions to become capitalists rather than simply replacing capitalists.
24. Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World (London: Verso, 1997), pp. 134, 188.
25. Robert Brenner, "The Economics of Global Turbulence," New Left Review, 229, May/June 1998, p. 3. While there are occasional increases in wages associated with upswings in the business cycle, these are more than offset by declines during the regular, eight yearly recessions.
26. For a description of this see "Exporting Recession: The USA Pays the Price," Jon Bennett with Susan George, The Hunger Machine (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987), Ch. 6.
27. W. Hutton, The State We're In (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995), p. 105.
28. Dorothy Zinberg, The Australian, January 21, 1998, p. 41.
29. Kent V. Flannery, "The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations," Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 3, 1972. Flannery's work has been developed by Bunker to characterize the relationship between the core zones and the peripheries of the global economy in Bunker, op. cit., esp. p. 248.
30. Kent V. Flannery, "The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations," Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 3, 1972. Flannery's work has been developed by Bunker to characterize the relationship between the core zones and the peripheries of the global economy in Bunker, op. cit., esp. p. 248.
31. Cited by Brenner, op. cit., p. 4.
32. Jonathan Friedman, Cultural Identity and Global Process (London: Sage, 1994), p. 252.
33. Richard Douthwaite, Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1996), provides an excellent review of work and achievements towards this end.
34. Hannah Arendt noted of people whose work had been reduced to unfulfilling labor that spare time "is never spent on anything but consumption, and the more time left to him, the greedier and more craving his appetites." (The Human Condition [Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958], p. 133.)
35. See Henck Thomas and Chris Logan, Mondragon: An Economic Analysis (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982). See also Douthwaite, op. cit., p. 161ff.
36. See Henck Thomas and Chris Logan, Mondragon: An Economic Analysis (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982). See also Douthwaite, op. cit., p. 161ff.
37. André Gorz offers some preliminary thoughts on these issues in Paths to Paradise [1983], Malcolm Imrie, trans. (London: Pluto Press, 1985).
38. In Arran Gare, Nihilism Inc.: Ecological Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability (Sydney: Eco-Logical Press, 1996), Chs. 15 and 16 I have argued for a multi-leveled federated system as the most likely to achieve this result.
39. On this, see David Dickson, The Politics of Science (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988).
40. See Gare, op. cit., Chs. 13 and 14.