ABSTRACT
According to the metastructural approach, liberalism is defined as the logic of the capitalists, socialism as the logic of the “competent” and communism as the logic of the common people. Liberalism becomes neoliberalism when it is deployed on the scale of the World-State. But this is to be understood as a process that develops within each nation-state, when it adopts a constitutional order based on the neoliberal hegemony, thus including itself in a neoliberal World-State constitutionality. Conversely, class struggle against this destructive world order takes root within each nation-state, converging with the struggles against male domination and coloniality.
As we proceed along the road of the ecological disaster, the common people, who once appeared in the guise of the proletariat and seemed to have disappeared, reappear on the stage of history. This hard test does not open a postmodernity, but rather an “ultimodernity” which establishes the triangular duel inherent to modernity on the ultimate scale, that of the planet. In these terms are assessed the great popular efforts for supporting ecology through controlling the market by organisation and organisation by democracy – similarly, on the frontline ecological practices in the peripheries. As for women’s struggle, it is addressed in terms of the indirect yet essential impulse which it gives to the ecological cause.
