3531. The Case for Ecocentric Socialism
By Kamran Nayeri, July 4, 2021
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“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and
wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to
regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather
than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so
I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of
civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of
you will take care of that.”
“…[I]n in Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
—- “Walking” by Henry David Thoreau, May 1862
“…[M]y innermost personality belongs more to my tomtits than to the
comrades.” This is not because, like so many spiritually bankrupt
politicians, I seek refuge and find repose in nature.
“I feel so much more at home even in a scrap of garden like the one
here, and still more in the meadows when the grass is humming with
bees than at one of our party congresses. ”
—- Letter to Sophie Liebknecht by Rosa Luxemburg, May 2, 1917
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*1. Introduction*
This essay is a response to a question I was asked during a Zoom
presentation and discussion about Ecocentric Socialism on May 7,
2021.The meeting was organized thanks to Mr. Farrokh Jafari and
Ettehad-e Fadian-e Komonist (Fadian Communist Unity) who invited me. The
presentation and discussion followed two earlier meetings they
organized. In the first, Mr. Jafari introduced environmentalism and some
of the environmental problems we face particularly in Iran.The second
meeting was organized after a reading of two of my essays, “The Crisis
of Civilization and How to Resolve It: An Introduction to Ecocentric
Socialism” (October 2018) and “The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of
Civilization” (2020), to discuss them and raise questions.These
questions were then shared with me to prepare my presentation for May
7.That most important of these questions was this: “How does Ecocentric
Socialism differ from other theories of socialism and ecosocialism?”
Although I offered an outline of a response to this question, it was
clear that there is much more to be said in more detail. This is the
task of this essay.
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