Materialising the Revolution: The Movement Toward Ecosocialism

an interview...

John Bellamy Foster and Álvaro de Regil Castilla

Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. In my work on social justice, for many years I was primarily concerned with understanding and exposing the global exploitation of workers in the Global South through unequal exchange perpetrated by corporations through labour arbitrage. However, after reading much of what you have written this century, I have concluded that the planetary crisis we are experiencing as a result of dominant monopoly capital poses an imminent existential risk to human and non-human beings and all life at our home unless we urgently organise ourselves to force a radical paradigmatic shift. This new paradigm would replace capitalism with new ecosocialist communities whose only purpose is the pursuit of the well-being of people and the planet through a revolutionary movement. With this vision in mind, I would like to focus on how you envision moving from theory to the actual materialisation of arevolutionary movement that successfully transitionsto the ecosocialist paradigm.


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