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Published online: 25 Feb 2009.
To cite this article: (1988) Prospectus, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/10455758809358354
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Prospectus
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Even though environmentalism constitutes one of the most
powerful social movements in the United States and other
countries, and ecological destruction and crises now ravage the
world, Marxists and socialists have made few or feeble attempts to
theoretically explain these facts in a coherent way. This has
created a theoretical void which we hope this journal will help to
fill.
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As "ecological Marxists" and "socialist ecologists" (or
sympathizers or fellow travelers), we would stress that struggles
against the "biological exploitation" of workers and farmers
worldwide will take their rightful place alongside traditional
struggles against economic exploitation, which are intricately
related to the former.
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new opportunities. Signs that this is true include the flourishing
field of environmental history, the development of historical and
cultural geography and "dialectical" evolutionary biology, and
ecological science itself. Scholars in these fields, as well as new
areas of study in the humanities and social sciences such as
feminist theory, history of consciousness, environmental
sociology, radical urban sociology, and political economy of
nature all share a massive skepticism of Baconian-Cartesian
dualism and positivism, which are the life blood of capitalist and
bureaucratic socialist rationality.
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World are all more or less bankrupt.
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Thus, this first issue of CMS, which is frankly experimental.
It is partly a vehicle for sharing the work done or presented on the
subject in the Fall, 1988 seminar, and partly an organizing device.
The latter means that the future of the journal will rise or fall
according to its initial reception by the 300 or so individuals who
we know (or know of) are working on the general subject
theoretically and also theoretically minded activists—individuals
like yourself who live in many different countries and work on
many different aspects of the subject. Put another way, what you
are holding in your hands is intended to be neither a simple
offering to other scholars and scientists nor a finished product but
something in between, an idea in material form, as it were.