ABSTRACT
Ecosocialism is the outcome of sustained anti-capitalist critiques of the mainstream left, which, barring some exceptions, long ignored the problem of environmental degradation generally and as it impinges on development issues or prospects for the improvement of material well-being. The major ecosocialist currents can be divided into Eco-Marxist and Social Ecology varieties. The former involves at least three overlapping, but distinctive approaches. Ecosocialism, as emphasized earlier, is a product of recent, changing material conditions and of the many struggles for a healthy livable future in many different communities, combining egalitarianism and the pursuit of a classless society with environmentalism or social and environmental justice. In spite of the development of many ecosocialist ideas among US-based scholars and activists, the presence of ecosocialism in the US is at most indirectly felt. Cooperation Jackson has taken the lead in developing grassroots-based efforts at laying the material and educational basis for local African-American self-determination, decolonization, and the development of ecosocialism.
