Key Works

Ecosocialism and climate crisis

Readings for the sessions on ecosocialism and the climate crisis: the resolutions of the 15th to 18th World Congresses, Daniel Tanuro, Michael Löwy, John Bellamy Foster, Marx and Engels on nature, Esther Vivas and the Stern Review.

29 works, 8 of them on this site. Fourth International documents and the classics first, then by the number of teaching materials that cite them.

1. Fourth International document Capitalist climate change and our tasksFourth International (16th World Congress) · 2010 · International Viewpoint · on this site · cited in 12 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu · International Viewpoint
2. Fourth International document The capitalist destruction of the environment and the ecosocialist alternativeFourth International (17th World Congress) · 2018 · 17th World Congress · on this site · cited in 6 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint · ESSF
3. Ten theses on the Social and Economic Laws Governing the Society Transitional Between Capitalism and SocialismErnest Mandel · 1973 · Probleme des Sozialismus und der Übergangsgesellschaften (ed. Peter Hennicke), Frankfurt · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
4. Fourth International document Climate chaos and the global ecological crisis, February 2011Fourth International · 2011 · International Viewpoint · on this site · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
5. Fourth International document Ecology and SocialismFourth International (15th World Congress) · 2003 · 15th World Congress · on this site · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: archive.4edu
6. Fourth International document Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growthFourth International (18th World Congress) · 2025 · Fourth International World Congress · on this site · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
7. Capital, Volume IIIKarl Marx · 1981 · Vintage, New York · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
8. Fourth International document Manifesto of Revolutionary Marxism in the Age of Capitalist Ecological and Social Destruction (draft)Fourth International (International Committee) · 2023 · International Committee · on this site · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu
9. Quotes of Marx and Engels on NatureKarl Marx; Friedrich Engels · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
10. Supplement to Capital Volume III: Law of Value and Rate of ProfitFriedrich Engels · 1894 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
11. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and NatureJohn Bellamy Foster · 2000 · Monthly Review Press · no copy online · cited in 7 teaching materials
12. Mobilization for the climate and anti-capitalist strategyDaniel Tanuro · 2010 · Europe Solidaire · on this site · cited in 7 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint · ESSF
13. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SurviveJared Diamond · 2005 · Penguin · no copy online · cited in 5 teaching materials
14. Ecological and social planning and transitionMichael Löwy · 2020 · Socialist Project · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
15. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate ChangeNicholas Stern · 2006 · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
16. A summary of an ecofeminist worldviewMarijke Colle · 2012 · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
17. Anti-capitalism and climate justiceEsther Vivas · International Viewpoint · on this site · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
18. Energy Revolution. A Sustainable Pathway to a Clean Energy Future for EuropeWolfram Krevitt, Uwe Klann, Stefan Kronshage · 2005 · Institute of Technical Thermodynamics & Greenpeace · no copy online · cited in 4 teaching materials
19. Foundations of an ecosocialist strategyDaniel Tanuro · 2010 · external link · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: ESSF · climateandcapitalism.com
20. Marxism, Energy, and Ecology: The Moment of TruthDaniel Tanuro · 2010 · Capitalism Nature Socialism · no copy online · cited in 4 teaching materials
21. The energy climate plan of Barack ObamaDaniel Tanuro · 2008 · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
22. The evidence from Fukushima: nuclear power means nuclear catastropheDaniel Tanuro · 2011 · Europe Solidaire · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
23. Ecosocialism, democracy and planificationMichael Löwy · 2007 · Socialist Register 2007 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: ESSF
24. Fatherland or Mother Earth? Chapter 5Michael Löwy · 1998 · IIRE/Pluto Press · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
25. Foundations of revolutionary ecosocialismDaniel Tanuro · Europe Solidaire · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
26. From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa NuiBenny Peiser · 2005 · Energy & Environment, Vol. 16 No. 3&4 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
27. Regaining our Momentum in the Fight against Climate ChangeInternational Viewpoint · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
28. The devil makes the saucepans, but not the lids: Defence of the climate and anti-capitalismDaniel Tanuro · 2007 · International Viewpoint no. 387 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: ESSF
29. Ukraine's energy system: principles for post-war reconstructionSimon Pirani · Ukraine Solidarity · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials