1. Pandemia e crise ambiental: a alternativa ecossocialista.
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Löwy, Michael
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COVID-19 pandemic , *NATURAL resources , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) , *EPIDEMICS , *CIVILIZATION - Abstract
This article relates the COVID-19 pandemic to deleterious effects of the capitalist mode of production on a global scale, and proposes eco-socialism as an alternative. It affirms that epidemics, like the ecological crisis, are the result of this mode of production that transforms all beings and natural resources into merchandise. It presents eco-socialism as a strategic proposition that seeks to transform not only relations of production and relations of property, but the actual structure of productive forces. It also looks for the transformation of the style, the pattern of consumption, the whole way of life dedicated to consumption, which is the pattern of capitalism. Eco-socialism is not restricted to the perspective of a new civilization, but rather a civilization of solidarity between humans and nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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