ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to chart the emergence of what I call guerrilla ecology, a term that represents a form of revolutionary praxis that builds upon the social indignation at capital’s planetary destructiveness while seeking to reclaim nature as an active collaborator in collective struggle. Guerrilla ecology thus denotes the structural, temporal, spatial, and social-political dimensions of confrontation of which the metabolic entanglement between capital and nature/labor is constituted. Accordingly, this chapter brings together distinctive voices across the spectrum of radical politics to identify and critique the lessons and limits of the emergent field of guerrilla ecological struggle. Readings will be drawn from Che Guevara, Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Dennis Banks, Ward Churchill, Herbert Marcuse, and Amilcar Cabral, while attention will be given to understanding historic eco-conflicts, such as the armed confrontation between members of the Red Power Movement and federal agents at Wounded Knee in 1973.
