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28 - Socialism and Ecology

from Part II - Transversal Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Ted Benton
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

From the end of the Second World War, the Cold War rivalry between formally communist ‘East’, and liberal democratic ‘West’ took several forms – prestige projects, such as space exploration, advances in military technology, and sporting prowess. Above all, the contest was about demonstrating the power of the rival socio-economic systems to deliver sustained economic growth, ever-rising material living standards, and consumer choice. In most western countries, there was a parallel consensus between the main parties of left and right about the central purpose of public policy. Economic growth and rising living standards were the shared priorities of both conservative and social democratic parties, with relatively minor differences over the extent of welfare provision, the role of state support for industry, and workers’ rights.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 664 - 686
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Benton, Ted (ed.), The Greening of Marxism (New York: Guilford, 1996).Google Scholar
Bookchin, Murray, The Ecology of Freedom (Montreal: Black Rose, 1991).Google Scholar
Engels, Friedrich, The Condition of the Working Class in England (London: Panther, 1969); also available from several internet sources, including www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/index.htm.Google Scholar
Foster, John Bellamy, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).Google Scholar
Kropotkin, Peter, Fields, Farms, Factories and Workshops (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899); also available from several internet sources, including https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin.Google Scholar
Marx, Karl, ‘Economic and Philosophical Notebooks of 1844’, in Marx Engels Collected Works (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2010), vol. iii; also available from several internet sources, including https://archive.org/details/economicphilosophicmanuscripts1844.Google Scholar
Morris, William, News from Nowhere and Other Writings (London: Penguin, 1993 [1890]).Google Scholar
O’Connor, James, Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (New York: Guilford, 1998).Google Scholar

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