ABSTRACT

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism.

Calling for the embrace of core values and institutions aligned with solidarity as opposed to capitalism, it advances four guiding ideas for the pursuit of such a path: redistribution of life chances and power, socio-ecological restructuring, redesign of democratic institutions, and reversal from confrontation to peace through international cooperation and solidarity.

A presentation of the fundamental elements of a left strategy for socioecological transformation, this volume will appeal to scholars of social, political and economic theory with interests in post-capitalist futures.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

The Twofold Transformation

chapter 2|19 pages

Five Possible Futures

chapter 4|50 pages

The Outlines of a Twofold Transformation

A Modern Left-Wing Narrative

chapter 5|12 pages

A Strategy of Perseverance