In France, despite a relative abundance, the long-term strategy of current
ecological struggles is not always clear. A quick portrait of two currents thathave irrigated the ecological left, ecosocialism and social ecology, offers someleads for eco-furious libertarian communists. ---- Coming from differenttraditions, respectively Marxist and libertarian, ecosocialism and social ecologyshare relatively similar sources of inspiration and have crossed paths on manyoccasions. So there is no competition between them. The differences are rather tobe found within their fields of intervention, respectively labor movement andecological circles. ---- At the origins of ecosocialism, there are first theideas of the new left which introduced the theme of ecology into the socialmovement in the 1960s and 1970s, but there is also a criticism within the Easternbloc of the "real" socialist model.The main thesis of ecosocialism is that current ecological problems arestructurally linked to capitalism. The desire for progress and infinite growth,the inability of the market to take into account anything other than short-termprofit, the system is at best capable of adjustments and these are clearlyinsufficient to deal with disasters.Ecosocialism defends the need, within the labor movement itself, to understandthe destructive nature that the forces of production can have.Beyond LaborPlacing work and productivity beyond criticism has locked traditional socialistcurrents into a system of thought that dooms them to reproduce the same patternsof exploitation as capitalism. An emancipatory social project cannot therefore bethought of without an ecological vision.Highly critical of Marxism-Leninism, this principle naturally made emulators onthe side of the Trotskyists and other anti-authoritarian communists, in France inparticular on the side of the NPA and Ensemble. The adoption of an ecosocialiststrategy results in the unification of environmentalist and anti-capitaliststruggles in a common front bringing a class discourse within environmentalistmobilizations and an environmentalist critique to the social movement.In the purest internationalist tradition, this common front should go beyondborders and make it possible to support the indigenous struggles that form thefront line of the struggles against capitalism and for the preservation of theenvironment.Ecosocial-democracyThe anti-globalization movement of the 2000s is an important pivot of thisecosocial convergence. This success also led to the constitution of asocial-democratic branch of ecosocialism. The concepts of green rule orecological planning, originally thought out in a Marxist framework, were keypoints in the campaign for insubordinate France in 2022.Losing all their revolutionary force in the process, the label was even taken upby Nupes forces such as the Left Party or the Ecosocialist Left. Thisecosocialism is built around a red-green electoral alliance with the aim ofmanaging capitalism, not overthrowing it. This is not anecdotal, it is a realdiversion of an emancipation project which allows itself to ignore pillars suchas direct democracy or internationalism.This recovery should not prevent us from asking ourselves what an ecosocialistintervention means for us, libertarian communists. If Never Again It undeniablymakes it possible to move forward in the federation of social and ecologicalstruggles, the coalition does not have the transformative scope that we need.The jobs at Grandpuits and La Chapelle-Darblay have been preserved thanks to thisconvergence but, in the end, it is still Total that is leading the Grandpuitsconversion project and it will be new capitalists who will replace the old onesat La Chapelle-Darblay.Countering eco-reactsConversely, we can also cite the Stop EDF Mexico collective, a group of NGOs andunions that supports the fight of the indigenous populations of Tehuantepecagainst the establishment of EDF. If the support is real and important, it isdifficult to imagine today a mobilization of the interior capable of underminingthe colonial strategy of the French industrialist.For its part, social ecology is a political current mainly theorized in theUnited States by Janet Biehl and Murray Bookchin from the end of the 1960s. Ithas subsequently experienced growing success, in particular through itsappropriation and its put into practice in a revolutionary context by the Kurdishleft.The primary objective was to give a frame of left thinking to ecologicalstruggles. Indeed, from its beginnings, the environmental movement has seen thedevelopment within it of a reactionary ideological current called deep ecology.This proposes to overturn the value system which places nature as inferior to manand concludes that the Human, seen as a homogeneous whole, must as much aspossible stop its action on the living. This means economic decline but also adecline in the number of humans.Faced with these drifts, social ecology proposes to go beyond the artificialopposition between humans and their environment. The destruction of theenvironment is not innate, it is a social fact resulting from a hierarchicalsocial organization, intimately linked to the exploitation of humans by humans.Deep ecology is still rooted in environmental movements today. Seizing on thispolitical framework and making it known would be of precious help in aperspective of clarification and the anti-fascist struggle.Organize locallyAs an application of their theories, Bookchin and Biehl conceptualize libertarianmunicipalism. The organization of local popular assemblies and their federationin a network would be the best way to prefigure the future institutions of alibertarian and ecological society.DRSocial ecology has been the subject of various appropriations, the fundamentalpillar of which is direct democracy. As an application of their theories,Bookchin and Biehl conceptualize libertarian municipalism.The organization of local popular assemblies and their federation in a networkwould be the best way to prefigure the future institutions of a libertarian andecological society. When we know that many environmental struggles are organizedaround the defense of a local territory, a neighborhood, organizing the struggleon this scale seems coherent.This strategy has been appropriated in France with limited success. Indeed, thestrategic interest of municipalism sometimes comes up against a vision of directdemocracy that is far removed from libertarian self-management. Contrarytherefore to a municipalism whose assemblies serve as an electoral platform or aprotest tool against a town hall, direct democracy must be conceived as a form ofdirect action which allows the exploited to transform themselves into politicalactors and actresses.The finest example of the implementation of the principles of social ecology isundoubtedly that of the Kurdish left and its democratic confederalism. If itspolitical base remains a popular assembly called a commune, the implementationstrategy is often dependent on the local context.The establishment of municipalities and their expansion requires an understandingof local problems and then a response to these problems through appropriatechecks and balances. The principle of confederation of local struggles is alsofound in France within environmental movements such as the Uprisings of the Earthor the Call of the Forests.By leaving a municipalist framework, social ecology can be appropriated bylibertarian communists in a logic of intervention within counter-powers. Let usremember for example that a strike, by the time it frees up, its reappropriationof the workplace and its attack on capitalism, can be the occasion for a practiceof real democracy.The construction of an ecological society through the generalization of practicesof struggle, mutual aid and self-management within our counter-powers would thenbe possible.Beyond municipalismEcology can itself be the object of a specific counter-power if it integrates afight against all hierarchies. Just as any struggle against systems ofdomination, by taking into account its relationship to the environment, canconstitute the bases of an ecological society.Corentin (UCL Alsace)We will read with profit:- Michael Löwy, Ecosocialism: the radical alternative to ecological disaster, OneThousand and One Nights, 2011, 240 pages, 16 euros.- "Jineoloji", on Serhildan.org- Malcom Ferdinand, Thinking a decolonial ecology, an ecology-of-the-world, onYoutube.com- Murray Bookchin, Ecopo - Anarchism and Ecology, on Youtube.com.- "Ecology, political struggle and survival issues", Anouk Colombani and SarahCaunes, Solidaires international, autumn 2018, on Ancien.solidaires.orghttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Les-chemins-sinueux-d-une-convergence-verte-et-rouge_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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