Eco-Leninism: A Much Needed Corrective
Martin Rose argues that Lenin’s classic political strategy offers an alternative to the economism which plagues both sides of the debate around ‘degrowth.’ Within the …
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Mining and the Environment with Martin Lallana
Rudy joins Martín Lallana for an introductory discussion on mining. We talk about the importance of mining to capitalism, the ecological impacts of different kind …
Cop City will never be built with Kei and Leila
Isaac joins Kei and Leila from Stop Cop City/Defend Atlanta Forest for a discussion on the movement, its strategy and its ultimate goals. They discuss …
Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel
Rudy joins Robert Biel, author of The Entropy of Capitalism, The New Imperialism and Sustainable Food Systems for a discussion on systems approaches to analyzing …
Cultivating the City with George Martin and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Rudy joins Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and George Martin, authors of Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism: Cultivating the City for a discussion on urban agriculture. We …
H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power and Society
Amelia, RK, Harry and Rudy sit down for a discussion on systems approaches to ecology using as a basis H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power, and …
Who Holds Up Half The Earth?: A Review of ‘Half-Earth Socialism’
Alex James and Neil Johnson review Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese’s ‘Half-Earth Socialism’ (Verso Books, 2022), arguing that, despite its promises, the book fails to …
Ecological Leninism with Kai Heron
Rudy joins Kai Heron for a discussion on ecological political strategy. We discuss his political background, how to develop an ecological program out of the …
The Eco-Centrist Movement: The Sierra Club & Earth First! with Keith Mako Woodhouse
Rudy joins Keith Woodhouse, author of The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism for a discussion on the history of the mainstream environmental movement in …
Socialist States and the Environment with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Rudy sits down with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, author of Socialist States and the Environment, for a discussion on environmental history of socialist states, as well as …
The World-Ecology: Capitalism and Nature with Jason Moore
Niko and Rudy sit down with Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life and The Capitalocene (Part I, II) for a discussion …
How Capitalism Produces Pandemics with Rob Wallace
Djamil and Rudy join Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, and Dead Epidemiologists: …
Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon
Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster’s ecological Marx. There is a …
Pull the Plugs? Labor, Power, and the Rise of Fossil Capitalism
Join the Cosmonaut Ecocrew as they discuss Andreas Malm’s piercing 2016 text Fossil Capital and attempt to dispel the myriad of myths that have been erected …