The Adequacy of Socialist Vocabularies and Revolutionary Strategies to Our Present Distress

The Adequacy of Socialist Vocabularies and Revolutionary Strategies to Our Present Distress
From an exchange, upgraded and adapted from the Moot : I wrote, in the context of a discussion of ecosocialist Joel Kovel, much of whose work I admire and teach, "I'm not a socialist (although many anti-socialists in the US would certainly accuse me of being one, and some for good reasons) and I personally think it is silly to think one is likely to contribute more to actual democratization and progress in specifically American conditions through an insistent advocacy of socialism than through