Eco-socialism

, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of, ecology and or.

Quotes

 * An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
 * Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965).


 * The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
 * Murray Bookchin, What Is Social Ecology? (1984).


 * It has been long understood that “” is a myth. To make fundamental changes in the commodity economy it is necessary to have power over production.
 * John Bellamy Foster, as quoted in A Resistance Movement for the Planet - Full Interview (July 02, 2017), Left Voice.


 * Socialists have all too often failed to take ecological issues seriously enough. However, this is not a fault of socialists alone, as the fault applies even more to the liberal tradition taken as a whole. But whatever we choose to say about socialism in the twentieth century, it has to be emphasized that no one can be truly socialist and indeed Marxist in the twenty-first century and fail to acknowledge the full severity of the planetary . We are either at the forefront of the struggle to protect the earth as a place of human habitation (and as a home for innumerable species) or we are on the side of the system’s creative exterminism of the Earth system as we know it.
 * John Bellamy Foster, as quoted in A Resistance Movement for the Planet - Full Interview (July 02, 2017), Left Voice.