1. Marx and Engels on capitalism, socialism and
ecology
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Capitalism and the destruction of land fertility
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Is socialism only dealing with capitalist
relations of production?
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Are the productive forces neutral?
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Hypothesis: to apply to the capitalist
productive forces what Marx and Engels wrote on the bourgeois state: the state
machine cannot be just appropriated by the proletariat and put to work for it.
A radical transformation must take place.
2. Capitalism and the present ecological crisis
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Agro-business and the destruction of the
environment
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The danger of GMOs (genetically modified
organisms): a threat to human health, to bio-diversity and to the autonomy of
the peasantry
3. Ecological struggles in the South
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The example of Chico Mendes in Brazil: the
Alliance of the Peoples of the Amazonian Forest - peasants, rubber-collectors
and indigenous communities - against the capitalist land-owners
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The socialist ecology of Chico Mendes
4. The global upsurge of peasant movements
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Via Campesina as a new form of alliance between
peasant movements from the North and the South, around common struggles
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Peasant and indigenous movements in Latin
America
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The example of the MST, the largest social
movement in Brazil and the social vanguard of the anti-neoliberal struggle
5. The convergence of ecological and peasant
movements around common issues:
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GMOs
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Amazonia
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Organic agriculture against agro-capitalism
6. The role of peasant and ecological movements
in the Global Justice Movement and the World Social Forum
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Via Campesina organized a debate on socialism at
the WSF in 2002.
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Socialism as the alternative for peasant and
ecological movements
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A new definition of socialism, taking into
account the experiences of peasant and indigenous struggles and the ecological
issue