What would the convergence of the labour movement and the ecology movements that Raymond Williams called for in 1984 look like today and what are the blockages that need to be overcome? How can we ground contemporary eco-socialism in anti-imperialist, anti-racist and feminist as well as class struggles? We will explore these questions through reading texts from Williams, Mies, Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel and Andreas Malm.

Tuesday: Contemporary Eco-Marxism

• John Bellamy Foster, “The Long Ecological Revolution” in Monthly Review, available here
• Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, “How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era” from the Guardian, available here
• Andrew Key, “Eco-Socialism or Eco-Barbarism” in New Socialist, available here