{"title":"Social Structure of Accumulation Theory, Marxist Theory, and History: Reply to Doug Hornstein","authors":"D. Kotz","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115487426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecosocialism and the Problem of Industrialism","authors":"Matthew T. Huber","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.546","url":null,"abstract":"At the core of ecosocialist theory and politics is a critique of “productivism” — particularly aimed against the actually existing socialist states and their dismal environmental record, thereby allowing ecosocialists to direct attention away from key questions about what industrial production would look like under ecosocialist social relations. Most ecosocialist writing emphasizes repairing the ecological conditions of production and promoting the most obviously sustainable forms of production (e.g., agroecology and renewable energy). The heart of any socialist project is about radically transforming and democratizing production — and this requires putting “ecology” at the heart of theories of the relations and forces of production. Thus, ecosocialism must be “productivist” in the sense that questions of production must be at the forefront (but not in the sense that maximizing production for production's sake). Ecosocialist politics also requires confronting more thorny problems of how to build socialism out of the material conditions that confront us (involving the production of things like steel, cement, minerals, and more).","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121986044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Case for Ecosocialism in the Face of the Worsening Climate Crisis","authors":"P. Bond","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.485","url":null,"abstract":"A fierce intellectual battle continues over the ideological character of green politics. The overall conflict that emerged in past decades between environmental justice advocates on the one hand, and on the other, a coalition of states, corporations and their academic, NGO and media allies will now revive in earnest, given the Biden Administration's January 2021 pledge to take climate change seriously. After the Trump regime's climate denialism, a longstanding challenge to environmental justice now returns in the form of supposedly-pragmatic “ecological modernization” strategies, i.e., regulatory, technicist, market-based, or some combination. These characterized the pre-Trump era but had no discernable impact on emissions. In contrast, David Harvey has long advocated “radicalization of the theses of ecological modernization.” The temptation to avoid in this process is deradicalization through cooptation. But even as technical questions reemerge, the radicalization Harvey calls for becomes ever more relevant.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"12 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123798329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kai Heron's Critique of Metabolic Rift Theory: A Response","authors":"Oscar A. Ralda, K. Knowlton","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134072258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prefiguration and the Emergence of the Global Subject","authors":"D. Schwartzman, S. E. Mauro","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.564","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of prefiguration is discussed in the context of the potential, arguably imperative emergence of a global subject of sufficient power to overcome the global rule of capital, thereby opening a path to an ecosocialist transition to a global solar commons, terminating the political economy of capitalism on our planet. Prefigurative social formations and struggles are discussed, particularly in the global South, along with the potential role of ecosocialist parties that would coordinate the emergence of a global Subject.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122053886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Transitions: The Case of Greece with a Special Focus on the Role of the EU ETS","authors":"A. Vlachou, Georgios Pantelias","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.4.516","url":null,"abstract":"Major energy transitions are associated not only with fundamental transformations of the energy sector but also with multidimensional changes in societies. Existing energy systems are heavily implicated in climate change. This paper investigates from an ecosocialist perspective the prevalent high-carbon energy systems in capitalism and their ongoing transformations, with a special focus on Greece as an EU member. Furthermore, it explores whether the EU ETS, in comparison to renewable energy sources (RES) support schemes, created considerable incentives for effective and socially fair transitions to low-carbon systems. Empirical data reveals the enduring high-carbon composition of gross inland energy consumption in Greece while evidence on gross electricity generation by fuel discloses the limited penetration of RES since 1990. The neoliberal design of ETS at the EU level and its poor workings did not induce investments in low carbon technologies. RES support policies have been more significant. However, both have adverse distributional effects, especially on working people since the latter bear the cost of transition for the most part. Effective and fair low-carbon energy transitions need radical social transformation — an ecosocialist path out of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133537308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motion, Matter and Dialectics: From Marx's Doctoral Thesis to Engels' Dialectics of Nature","authors":"R. Boer","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.389","url":null,"abstract":"There is an underlying continuity between Marx's doctoral thesis and Engels' Dialectics of Nature. Although the two works are far apart in terms of time, style of writing, and specific topics, an exegesis of the core arguments reveals similar underlying interests: a focus on the materiality of motion; an identification of repulsion (and attraction) as the main dialectical feature of motion; and the philosophical implications of this dialectical interaction. The results of this exegesis raise once again the question of how we may understand the division of labor between Marx's main concern with human history and Engels' later concern with natural history and the hard sciences.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Super-Exploitation from the Perspective of the Global Working Class","authors":"C. Gilbert","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122196799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Boulanger Affair, or, Bonapartism Redux: Engels Comes to the Rescue","authors":"August H. Nimtz","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128833339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opium and the Family in the Writings of Karl Marx","authors":"Maya Singhal","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.3.370","url":null,"abstract":"Marx's assertion that religion “is the opium of the people” is his most famous invocation of opium, but references to the drug appear throughout his work, providing a window into his theories of gender, the family, and the state. Responding to moral panics around a spike in rates of infanticide by opium among the working class in 19th-century England, Marx suggests that the spike was caused by women's increasing workforce participation. Marx uses trades of opium and cotton between England and China to exemplify problems with prevailing economic theories of money and exchange, but he also explains why opium and cotton were not comparable trades: the illicit opium trade in China undermined the Chinese government by promoting corruption. While many accounts of commodity trades in the 19th century treat opium as either a normal commodity or a moral disaster, Marx's invocations of opium and infanticide encompass a debate about working-class subsistence, changing bourgeois norms, and state power.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"6 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132329829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}