Review of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism by Victor Wallis

ABSTRACT

Victor Wallis’s Red-Green Revolution is about ecosocialism as politics. He discusses the possible indispensable short-term ecosocialist reforms, particularly regarding technologies, within the necessary long-term challenge to revolutionize the capitalist mode of production. He outlines a political line of a potential ecosocialist organization within a movement as class-based, differentiating it from hyper-constructivist, anti-catastrophist and intersectional positions. Despite its indisputable merits, the argument needs some further socioeconomic theorization.

KEYWORDS:

• Ecosocialism
• ecology
• Marxism
• technology
• class politics

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Notes on Contributor

Christian Stache is an independent scholar who earned his PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany. His first book Kapitalismus und Naturzerstörung. Zur kritischen Theorie des gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisses (Capitalism and the Destruction of Nature: Towards a Critical Theory of the Relation between Society and Nature) was published by Budrich UniPress in 2017. His fields of interest are Marxism, Ecology and Ecosocialism and human-animal relations.