Revised May 2018 While ecosocialists (particularly Joel Kovel, John Bellamy Foster, and Fred Magdoff) and their tendency have been given consideration by social ecologists like John P. Clark and Brian Tokar, their work seems under-appreciated in our field. Conversely, the social ecological perspective seems to have had little presence or
Revised May 2018 Welcome to the inaugural post of the Better Worlds, Brighter Futures blog! Here you will find news and analysis from a broad social ecological perspective. It is hoped that out of these explorations social ecology can begin to engage with “fellow traveler” philosophies, create dialog, build a
September 2018 Preface Originally posted to what became the precursor blog to Better Worlds, Brighter Futures, this was written in support of the now-defunct project “Social Ecology Sonora.” This post was created to share a flier that was distributed at a march to the Arizona capitol. It was an attempt to start
September 2018 Preface This discussion aims to draw out a common fallacy of argumentation and was written at a time when technological pessimism, primativism, and “anti-civ” sentiments were more popular than at present. Here, an argument against professional sports finds its parallel in an argument against technology. Though this work
This piece originally appeared on the precursor to this blog in 2010. It was intended as a starting place for the development of a social ecological theory that could be applied specifically to building a radical ecosocialist movement in the Sonoran Desert.
INTRODUCTIONBy Better Worlds, Brighter FuturesJuly 2019 Author: Joseph DejacqueDate: February 20, 1861Publication: N/A (Personal correspondence)Note: We are very thankful for the work of Mitchell Abidor for translating this letter in 2008 from the original French. Joseph Dejacque was an early and radical French anarchist-communist. Going beyond even the necessity of
July 2018 Preface Originally in Upheaval, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2008, Phoenix Anarchist Coalition. This is an early writing drawn from experiences with different Food Not Bombs groups in Nevada and Arizona. Often, there was a struggle to maintain the focus of the group, and specifically its radicality and adherence to
July 2018 Preface This piece was originally a response to an editorial in the Coyote Press student newspaper of the Community College of Southern Nevada (now simply the College of Southern Nevada) titled “Genetic Engineering will Benefit Society.” From our recollection (the piece is not available online) it was an argument