Socialist States and the Environment : Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures
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| Title: | Socialist States and the Environment : Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures |
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| Description: | More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the critique of state socialism is still used to deny alternatives to capitalism, irrespective of global capitalist ecological and social devastation. There is seemingly nothing worthwhile salvaging from decades of state socialist experiences. As the climate crisis deepens, Engel-Di Mauro argues that we need to re-evaluate the environmental practices and policies of state socialism, especially as they had more environmentally beneficial than destructive effects. Rather than dismissing state socialism's heritage out of hand, we should reclaim it for contemporary eco-socialist ends. By means of a comparative and multiple-scaled approach, Engel-Di Mauro points to highly diverse and environmentally constructive state socialist experiences. Taking the reader from the USSR to China and Cuba, this is a fiery and contentious look at what worked, what didn't, and how we can move towards an eco-socialist future. |
| Authors: | Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Environmental policy--Communist countries, Communism and ecology |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the critique of state socialism is still used to deny alternatives to capitalism, irrespective of global capitalist ecological and social devastation. There is seemingly nothing worthwhile salvaging from decades of state socialist experiences. As the climate crisis deepens, Engel-Di Mauro argues that we need to re-evaluate the environmental practices and policies of state socialism, especially as they had more environmentally beneficial than destructive effects. Rather than dismissing state socialism's heritage out of hand, we should reclaim it for contemporary eco-socialist ends. By means of a comparative and multiple-scaled approach, Engel-Di Mauro points to highly diverse and environmentally constructive state socialist experiences. Taking the reader from the USSR to China and Cuba, this is a fiery and contentious look at what worked, what didn't, and how we can move towards an eco-socialist future. |
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| ISBN: | 9780745340401 9780745340418 9781786807892 9781786807908 |
