Eco-socialism
The eco-socialism is a main flow within the environmental movement. In the 1980s, dominated eco-socialist positions of the Greens, Rainer Trampert was a prominent Ökosozialist party spokesman.
Fundamentals of Eco-socialists
The eco-socialism socialist and Marxist has basics. He advocates a democratic, ecological, internationalist and participatory socialism. Analytically, a contradiction between capitalism and ecology is seen. The eco-socialism goes against eco- capitalist approaches to how they are represented, for example, by Paul Hawken. In addition to this general categorical word usage also individual political movements called ökosozialistisch, including delineation of followers who also left social ecology. One of these directions is the concerning historical wing of the eco-socialists within the Alliance 90/The Greens. However understood, for example, Fritz Vilmar ( as a business Democrat in the SPD) and Ludger Volmer as eco-socialists.
History of eco-socialists
The positions of the eco-socialists are articulated not only since the 1960s. In England, found himself back in the 19th century with William Morris, an early pioneer eco-socialist approaches. Within the "old" alternative movements of the Wilhelmine era and the Weimar Republic left natural and environmental considerations have been held by some thinkers such as Paul robien, long before the new social movements.
For immediate history of eco-socialists are the discussions within the Communist League and its spin-off, the group Z, the ratio of avant-garde and environmental policy. From operating from Hamburg group Z staff about Ebermannsdorf Thomas and Rainer Trampert also Trittin and Angelika Beer went for future Eco-socialists, but proof.
After the exodus of conservative- ecological forces from the Green Party in 1980 dominated eco-socialist positions, the West German Greens. Rainer Trampert was chosen as one of the most important eco-socialists in 1982 to the Board and was until 1987 a spokesman for the party. The wings of the eco-socialists joined with the radical ecologists a skeptical attitude towards party alliances and participation in government with the SPD. Unlike the radical ecologists participation in government and tolerancing were not excluded in principle, blocking policy of radical ecology was kristisiert even sharp. Together with the radical ecologists to Ditfurth dominated eco-socialists until the late 1980s, the Board of GREEN. Thomas and Rainer Ebermannsdorf Trampert as the most prominent eco-socialists left 1990 GREEN. As asserted itself to Joschka Fischer during the time of the realist - wing party, were the many eco-socialists from the Party of the Greens. Some were moving then in Communist circles or joined the PDS. Ditfurth, Manfred Zieran and other radical environmentalists in 1991 founded the party Ecological left.
Recent Developments
In the English-speaking world there is within the Ecosocialist International Network aspirations to a global network. In this context, the eco-socialist debate is revived in Germany. Central to this debate are publications by John Bellamy Foster ( among other things: "The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet" ), Joel Kovel (for example: "The Enemy of Nature" ) and the number Democracy and Ecology of the publisher James O 'Connor.
As one of the ecosocialism related party especially the Danish Socialistisk Folkeparti can be considered. The British Green Left defines itself as ökosozialistisch and supports eco-socialist manifesto of the International Ecosocialist Network. The British organization " Socialist Resistance " section of the 4th International, describes itself as ökosozialistisch.
In Germany supports the " educational community SALT " (social - work - life - future), the manifesto of the EIN ( Ecosocialist International Network ) and submitted with its annually updated Kassel Declaration "Towards an eco-socialist turning from below! " Own position. From the circle of its scientific advisory board also comes an introduction to the topic of " eco-socialism - that's ". SALT is also working with a co-founder of Saral Sarkar " initiative eco-socialism " together.