ABSTRACT
This final chapter’s purpose is to lay out, in summary, the theoretical basis for eco-socialism, to suggest what ecologism should take on from Marxist analysis, and to point to the kinds of practice which are broadly consistent with eco-socialist theory. But in order to do all this we must first dispel the widespread belief that current radical green politics, which are substantially infused by anarchism, are necessarily and largely ‘socialist’. This is not true, as this first section, on socialist-anarchist differences, soon makes clear. In so doing it also, of course, underlines the fact that ‘anarchism’ of itself is not necessarily socialist. Although, as we have noted, some commentators say it is so, it is more accurate to say that some anarchism has some common elements with socialism. But there are also many differences, and they have to be aired and understood before red-green politics can advance.
