A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

Patel, Raj; Moore, Jason W.

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“…Social struggles for ecological regeneration and environmental justice have become an integral part of broader social justice struggles, as Martinez‐Alier, Temper, Del Bene, and Scheidel () argue. This connects with what Patel and Moore (, p. 43) call “reparation ecology,” with struggles for agroecological farming systems (Rosset & Altieri, ), or with struggles for “agrarian climate justice” (Borras & Franco, ). Fifth, these four goals of deep social reforms can only be accomplished through fierce, relentless, and disruptive resistance within and/or against capitalism—which really means political revolution .…”

Section: What Is To Be Done? Ask Big and Act Insurgent With A Socialmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…The problems confronting the rural world are huge, persistent, and entrenched. Reviewing how capitalism has, over time, condemned humanity and ecology to their current dire situation, Patel and Moore (, p. 41) suggest that there is an urgent “need to dream for more radical change than contemporary politics offer.” The working class and the middle class worldwide were angry and were demanding radical reforms. Right‐wing populists answered their call—with programmes that were big and insurgent —with relative success (in right‐wing terms), and in many places in the world, at least for now.…”

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Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Borras

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Parallels, resemblances, and interconnections between contemporary right‐wing populism and the populism of agrarian movements are examined in this essay. The two are partly linked through their social base in the countryside. This paper explores an agenda for political conversation and research on possible contributions to the twin efforts of splitting the ranks of right‐wing populists while expanding the united front of democratic challengers. The challenge is how to transform the identified interconnections into a left‐wing political project that can erode right‐wing populism. This requires a reclaiming of populism. In exploring this agenda, the paper revisits the ideas and practices of right‐wing populism and agrarian populism and the awkward overlaps and fundamental differences between them. It concludes with a discussion on the challenge of forging a reformulated class‐conscious left‐wing populism as a countercurrent to right‐wing populism, and as a possible political force against capitalism and towards a socialist future.

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Section: What Is To Be Done? Ask Big and Act Insurgent With A Socialmentioning

confidence: 68%

Section: What Is To Be Done? Ask Big and Act Insurgent With A Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Borras

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…While both history and political economy are invoked by Rift analysts, they have made little headway in historical research, at times coming perilously close to structural-functionalism, and have shown little interest in rethinking the theory of capital accumulation. These two issues-of a broadly conceived environmental history and Red-Green political economy-are posed directly by the world-ecology conversation, through which capitalism is understood as an evolving totality of capital, power, and nature (Moore 2015a;Patel and Moore 2017;Altvater 2016;Bolthouse 2014;Camba 2015;Campbell 2016;Cox 2015;Deckard, 2016;Dixon 2015;El Khoury 2015;Frame 2016;Gill 2016;Hartley 2016;Jakes, 2016;Marley 2016;McBrien 2016;Niblett and Campbell 2016;Oloff 2016;Parenti 2015;Taylor 2015;Weis 2013).…”

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Metabolic rift or metabolic shift? dialectics, nature, and the world-historical method

Moore

2017

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In the flowering of Red-Green Thought over the past two decades, metabolic rift thinking is surely one of its most colorful varieties. The metabolic rift has captured the imagination of critical environmental scholars, becoming a shorthand for capitalism's troubled relations in the web of life. This article pursues an entwined critique and reconstruction: of metabolic rift thinking and the possibilities for a post-Cartesian perspective on historical change, the world-ecology conversation. Far from dismissing metabolic rift thinking, my intention is to affirm its dialectical core. At stake is not merely the mode of explanation within environmental sociology. The impasse of metabolic rift thinking is suggestive of wider problems across the environmental social sciences, now confronted by a double challenge. One of course is the widespread-and reasonable-sense of urgency to evolve modes of thought appropriate to an era of deepening biospheric instability. The second is the widely recognized-but inadequately internalized-understanding that humans are part of nature.Dialectics does not consider fixed artifacts, formations and objects, the entire complex of both the material world of things and that of ideas…, to be something original and autonomous. It does not accept them in their ready-made form, but subjects them to investigation in which the reified forms of the objective and the ideal worlds dissolve, [and] lose their fixed and natural character.

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“…The dismantling of past and ongoing forms of colonization is central to the construction of just futures (Arrighi, 1994;Patel & Moore, 1983;Wallerstein, 1983). In our dialogue, we recognized the importance of distinguishing between the material and cultural implications of colonialism and to look for points of convergence and solidarity across geographies and movements.…”

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Land, territory and commons: voices and visions from the struggles

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All over the world, financial capitalism and extractivism are appropriating land as if it was nothing more than a commodity, a mere 'factor' of production that can be exploited to generate financial returns. Movements and activists are organizing, resisting, protecting and promoting life-giving visions against this continuous enclosure of living beings and paces: they use their bodies, laws, educational projects, histories and visions to regain control over territory as a political space, self-determine and create solidarities. In the act resistance, they are the target of moral, physical and legal violence. They and their ideas are criminalized, disciplined, punished and in some cases exterminated. In this contribution, activists from the Basque Country, Guatemala, Kenya and the Six Nations and a group of academics get together to learn from each other, support the ongoing search for common vocabularies and identify possible milestones of a coordinated and international strategy for a lifeenhancing future.

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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

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Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Agrarian social movements: The absurdly difficult but not impossible agenda of defeating right‐wing populism and exploring a socialist future

Metabolic rift or metabolic shift? dialectics, nature, and the world-historical method

Land, territory and commons: voices and visions from the struggles

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