Abstract

SAPKUS, Sergio O. Social processes and environmental degradation: recent discussions in eco-socialism. Folia [online]. 2016, n.25, pp.189-205. ISSN 0325-8238.

Having emerged three decades ago, the school of environmental thought named eco-socialism has gone through two moments. During the first of these, their proponents attempted to graft the green theory into Marxism, even though they did not delve into the theoretical framing that would allow the integration of these theoretical trends. As a consequence, critical voices appeared pointing out the ad-hoc nature of the formulae that had been devised in order to narrow the gap between them. A second phase was opened up, the scholars are now trying to grasp more comprehensively the ecological background of Marxian materialism, and to achieve a deep conceptual synthesis between ecologism and socialism. This paper has been drawn up with these considerations in mind, and it comments on some recent discussions between eco-socialists writers in order to improving the theoretical understanding of the relations between social processes and environmental degradation, whereas it puts a particular emphasis on the notion of crisis of the ecological conditions for human development.

Keywords : eco-socialism; environmental degradation; social processes; human development.

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