Eco-socialism

Eco-socialism also so-called as green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology in addition to alter-globalization or anti-globalization. Eco-socialists broadly believe that a expansion of a capitalist system is the earn of social exclusion, poverty, war as well as environmental degradation through globalization and imperialism, under the administration of repressive states and transnational structures.

Eco-socialism asserts that the human needs while staying within ecological limits, as egalitarian economic/political/social structure intentional to harmonize human society with non-human ecology and to fulfill human needs—as the only sufficient solution to the present-day ecological crisis, and hence the only path towards sustainability.: 163 

Eco-socialists advocate dismantling capitalism, focusing on common ownership of the means of production by freely associated producers, and restoring the commons.

Ideology

Eco-socialists are critical of numerous past and existing forms of both green politics and socialism. They are often planned as "Red Greens" – adherents to Green politics with form anti-capitalist views, often inspired by Marxism Red Greens are in contrast to eco-capitalists and Green anarchists.

The term "watermelon" is commonly applied, often pejoratively, to Greens whoto increase "social justice" goals above ecological ones, implying they are "green on the external but red on the inside". The term is common in Australia and New Zealand, and ordinarily attributed to either Petr Beckmann or, more frequently, Warren T. Brookes, both critics of environmentalism.

The Watermelon, a New Zealand website, uses the term proudly, stating that it is for "green on the external and liberal on the inside", while also citing "socialist political leanings", reflecting the use of the term "liberal" to describe the political left in numerous English-speaking countries. Red Greens are often considered "fundies" or "fundamentalist greens", a term usually associated with deep ecology even though the German Green Party "fundi" faction indicated eco-socialists, and eco-socialists in other Green Parties, like Derek Wall, have been described in the press as fundies.

Eco-socialists also criticise bureaucratic and elite theories of self-described socialism such(a) as Maoism, Stalinism and what other critics have termed bureaucratic collectivism or state capitalism. Instead, eco-socialists focus on imbuing socialism with ecology while keeping the emancipatory goals of "first-epoch" socialism. Eco-socialists aim for communal usage of the means of production by "freely associated producers" with all forms of advice eclipsed, especially gender inequality and racism.

This often includes the restoration of commons land in opposition to private property, in which local command of resources valorizes the Marxist concept of use value above exchange value. Practically, eco-socialists have generated various strategies to mobilise action on an internationalist basis, developing networks of grassroots individuals and groups that can radically transform society through nonviolent "prefigurative projects" for a post-capitalist, post-statist world.