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EcoSocialist
Review is a
project of
Capitalism,
Nature,
Socialism:
A
Journal of
Socialist
Ecology
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CNS
Journal
Special Issue:
Ecofeminist
Responses to
Capitalist
Extractivism
Today,
humanity faces
overlapping
existential
crises:
climate
change, the
destruction of
the biosphere,
and persistent
ecological
imperialism.
In fact, these
are all one
crisis,
originating in
the violence
of
capitalism’s
global
domination
through
extractivist
social,
ecological,
and economic
relations. CNS
Journal’s
latest Special
Issue
delves into
the belly of
the capitalist
beast and
brings you an
instructive
collection of
responses from
ecofeminist
perspectives.
A
significant
consequence of
the corporate
capture of
sustainable
development
discourse and
the attendant
ramping-up of
extractivist
projects has
been the
bifurcation of
extractivism
into
legal operations
(regulated and
embraced by
states) and illegal
operations
(unregulated
and undertaken
by private
actors,
including
criminal
syndicates).
To complement
these
analyses, we
must propose new
horizons where
social
movements
converge,
centering the
voices of the
daughters of
rebellion and
their vision
for a new
future.
Our
Special Issue
features
contributors’
works in these
three sections
advance
ecofeminist
frameworks to
explore
ongoing
processes of
and struggle
against the
perpetuation
of the
conditions,
relations, and
results of the
eco-imperialism through which extractivisms are pursued, including
racism,
patriarchy,
war, climate
change, and
ecological
destruction.
—
by Ana
Isla,
Selina
Gallo-Cruz
& Leigh
Brownhill
Image: Photographer: Samuel Warom.
Courtesy of: Environmental Defenders
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The
Special
Issues’ Open
& Free
Access
Articles:
Ecofeminist
Responses to
Legal
Extractivism
Ecofeminist
Responses to
Illegal
Extractivism
Ecofeminist Reflection and Praxis
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Mussolini’s
Nature:
An
Environmental
History of
Italian
Fascism
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In this first environmental
history of
Italian
fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf
von Hardenberg
reveal that
nature and
fascist
rhetoric are
inextricable.
Mussolini's Nature explores fascist political
ecologies, or
rather the
practices and
narratives
through which
the regime
constructed
imaginary and
material
ecologies
functional to
its political
project.
This original, and surprisingly
intimate,
environmental
history is not
merely a
chronicle of
conservation
in fascist
Italy but also
an invitation
to consider
the
socioecological
connections of
all political
projects.
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Chao’s Land
of Famish
Beings
A Review by
Elna Tulus
In her latest monograph, The Land of Famished Beings: West
Papuan
Theories of
Hunger, Sophie Chao bridges our
understanding
of metabolic
justice, in
the
biopolitical
and social
unevenness of
“privileged
guts” between
humans and
other beings,
between
indigenous
people and
global
consumers.
Read Elna’s
review of the
book below.
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2026
Historical
Materialism
Conference in
Istanbul
from
Pritam Singh
This year’s Historical Materialism
conference
will take
place in
Istanbul,
Turkey from
the 3rd to the
5th April
2026. CNS
authors and
editors
Richard Smith
(New York),
Michael Lowy
(Paris) and
Pritam Singh
(Oxford) will
be paneling a
discussion. To
view more
conference
information,
visit CNS’ new
Events Calendar.
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Minneapolis Contra ICE,
Financialization, & Global
Cities
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This
month, CNS
Reviews Editor
Michael
Goldman
was a guest on
the podcast culturalstudies
to
talk about his
latest book, Hidden
Empire of
Finance: How
Wall Street
Profits from
Our Cities and
Fuels Global
Inequality.
Situating his
work within
the current
context of the
violent Siege
on
Minneapolis,
Goldman
elaborates on
how the White
House and the
alt-right
movement
thought it
could add a
violent
exclamation
mark to the
killing off of
our cities --
already
distressed by
extractive
debt and
dispossession
and the
vanquishing of
access to
public goods
and resources
-- this
politically
active city,
primed by the
George Floyd
uprising,
fought back.
The podcast
explains how
Big Finance
has commanded
monopolistic
power since
the 2008
financial
crisis and how
grassroots
organizing has
begun to
spread
nationally and
into new
spaces of
progressive
urban
politics.
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“Like
a Third World
Country”
by
Judith Watson
When I catch the bus into the city
centre, I look
out from the
bus stop over
a small patch
of
publicly-owned
grassland, and
beyond that
the Lawn
Memorial Park.
The cemetery
was created in
1962 with
flat, rather
than erect,
headstones, so
that views of
the sea are
uninterrupted.
Beyond the
cemetery are
hills that
since 2010 are
part of the
South Downs
National Park,
chalk cliffs,
the English
Channel and
France. Like
the other
national parks
in Britain,
this one was
created after
struggle, by
socialists and
countryside-lovers, not just to protect the land but to keep it open to
the public.
For the last couple of years the
Council has
adopted
“meadow
management”
for this patch
of grass,
which is used
by joggers,
dog-walkers
and those who
rest on a
bench. A hay
meadow in
England is
traditionally
mown “from
June to
Christmas”,
but we are
only a couple
of miles from
the south
coast, and
climate change
brings spring
earlier, so
the grass can
start to get
long in April.
The Council
does mow paths
through.
Anger against the long grass has
been whipped
up among some
older
residents by
former
Conservative
Party
councillors
who have
turned to the
far-right
Reform Party.
“Disrespectful”, people have written in the community Facebook group,
arguing that
the grass
should be
short and neat
all year
round. “Like a
third-world
country”. And
indeed mowing
costs money,
which all
councillors,
whether
Conservative,
Labour or
Green, love to
save.
Luckily, other local people know
that less
frequent
cutting
encourages
colonization
by
wildflowers.
We are on the
edge of a
city, and
intensive
arable farming
is still
permitted in
the national
park, so the
finest
examples of
biodiverse
chalk
grassland are
discontinuous.
But a couple
of miles away
is a national
nature reserve
which retains
species from
the tundra
that covered
Britain during
the last Ice
Age, sustained
by centuries
of grazing.
And towards
the city
centre is
Whitehawk
Hill, its
ecology the
subject of a
book by the
veteran
ecosocialist
David Bangs.
Already in the
patch we have,
as well as
daisies and
buttercups,
little mauve
dots of common
mallow (Malva
sylvestris).
Yarrow
(Achillea
millefolium)
flowers until
the first
frosts that in
the warming
climate may
not arrive
until
December.
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Guillaume
Suing’s Communism,
the Highest
Stage of
Ecology
Translated
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Translated into English by Henry
Hakamäki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Communism, The Highest Stage of
Ecology makes a bold intervention in
contemporary
environmental
debates,
refuting the
myth that
socialism and
ecological
responsibility
are at odds.
Instead,
Guillaume
Suing argues
that planned
economies—unlike
capitalist
market
systems—offer
the necessary
framework for
sustainable
resource
management,
food
sovereignty,
and scientific
agricultural
advancements.
Drawing
on historical
case studies
from the
Soviet Union
and Cuba,
Suing explores
the successes
and
contradictions
of socialist
environmental
policies, from
agroecology to
energy
planning. He
critically
engages with
ecosocialist
currents and
exposes the
limitations of
“green
capitalism,”
ultimately
reaffirming
the centrality
of dialectical
materialism in
understanding
and
confronting
the climate
crisis.
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Do you have two hours?
The team at Guerrilla History
Podcast
recently
released a
terrific show
featuring
Henry Hakamaki
and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro discussing their book translation
of Communism - The Highest Stage of
Ecology. (The recording is originally
from
Peacemongers (Fredshetsarna), a
Swedish
anti-imperialist
podcast.)
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and the
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