Author Archive | Dawn Starin

For Mabel Lee, a pioneer for suffrage, some recognition at last

Not all US women were given the right to vote in 1920, despite leading courageous efforts to widen the franchise.

Misrepresenting Marx’s Ecology: A response to Daniel Tanuro’s “was Marx an ecosocialist?” John Bellamy Foster
Daniel Tanuro is an agricultural engineer and leading socialist activist who has made numerous contributions to ecosocialist thought and practice, most notably, in his book Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work. Yet, this has been coupled with persistent claims that there are “fundamental flaws” in Karl Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism.
Culturalism, Naturalism, and Social Metabolism Peter Critchley
The alternative to the social and ecological pathology which is becoming all-pervasive in the socioinstitutional and economic fabric of modern capitalist society is to be found in the development of an appropriate, harmonious relationship between humanity, their productive powers, and nature.