Achieving an Ecological Civilization
Charles Posa McFadden and Karen Howell McFadden
January 2021
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1. Achieving an ecological civilization
2. Identifying the planetary emergency and a path forward
3. Seeking a political response to the planetary emergency
4. Gaining a revolutionary perspective
5. Drawing upon humanity's revolutionary heritage
6. Addressing the ravages of capitalism
7. Learning from the history of socialism
8. Overcoming barriers to an ecosocialist future
9. Taking a cultural perspective on revolutionary transformation
10. Transitioning to an ecosocialist culture
11. Adopting a strategic perspective on revolutionary transformation
Welcome!
Now in our fourteenth year, this website was launched September 1, 2010 in response to the convergence of growing inequality within and between countries and a rapidly developing ecological catastrophe. After several years of further participation in the social justice, democratic and environmental movements of the people and discussions with many of our friends in these movements about draft essays we have posted to this website, we believe we now have a relatively brief, coherent set of eleven arguments that can serve as a basis for further discussion and development by those committed to taking action to reverse the neoliberal tidal wave and move forward to the achievement of an ecologically sustainable global civilization. These were completed by spring 2021. Our further arguments, including updates on our prior posted ones, can be found in the What's New Section which accompanies each page. - C&K McFadden
What's New
Winter 2024
Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden
The Path to an Ecologically Sustainable Future is that of Class Struggle
Summer - Fall 2023
Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden
Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden
An alternative to destruction by capitalism: The case for communism
Winter - Spring 2023
Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden
For a future beyond capitalism
1. A contemporary lens for addressing the existential crises we now face
2. For a future, we must end the systemic causes of destruction and waste
3. Meeting the urgent need for revolutionary political renewal
Fall 2022
C & K McFadden (Sept. 2022): Capitalism is genocide and ecocide
Winter 2022
C McFadden (Feb. 2022) For Canada: On Freedom - A response to the “Freedom” Convoy
C & K McFadden (Feb. 2022) For Canada: A House Divided
C & K McFadden (Jan. 2022): The Need for an Ecosocialist Revolutionary Movement
Fall 2021
C & K McFadden (Sept. 2021) For Canada: For a future: Organize!
Winter 2020-21
C McFadden (Feb. 2021) How scarcity necessitates a more ecologically sustainable global community and digital technology makes that feasible
C&K McFadden (Dec. 2020) Can Greens avoid the pitfalls of capitalist electoral politics?
Spring 2020
C&K McFadden Canadian electoral politics and the global loss of legitimacy of the neoliberal project
Fall 2019
C&K McFadden Beyond Marx for a 21st Century Revolutionary Perspective
Spring 2019
C&K McFadden To Change the System, We Must Know the System!
Fall 2018
C&K McFadden, we either escape the internal logic of capitalism or descend with it into barbarism
C&K McFadden, We Need an Updated Manifesto
Don Fitz, Revolving Doors
C McFadden, The Greens Have It Right
Don Fitz, Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis
CANADA
C&K McFadden (February 2022) A House Divided
C McFadden (February 2022) On Freedom - A response to the “Freedom” Convoy
C&K McFadden (September 2021) For a future: Organize!
David Gehl (2018), Fight Climate Change Not War
C&K McFadden (2018), It is time for Canada to do the right thing by its First Nations
George Hewison (2018), WINNIPEG 1919 & THE COLD WAR
George Hewison (2018), Art Manuel - "Unsettling Canada
NEW BRUNSWICK
Charles & Karen McFadden, An Historic Turning Point on the Journey to Recovery from Capitalism and its History of Colonialism: Reclaiming Wolastoq Ceremony
Charles McFadden, Decolonizing the U.S. & Canada: The People United for a More Just Sustainable Future
REVIEWS
Charles McFadden Is Canada a force for good in the world, as many imagine? Review of Tyler Shipley (2020) Canada in the World: Settler capitalism and the colonial imagination
Karen and Charles McFadden, Can emergent early 21st century neo-fascism be defeated without coming to grips with late 20th century restructuring of capitalism into a global system Review of William I Robinson (2014) Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Karen and Charles McFadden, A Dominant Capitalism or a Sustainable Environment? Why we can't have both. Review of Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster (2011) What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
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