Abstract
To contest the currently triumphant neoliberal order it is necessary to advance a new dialectical alternative which substitutes an environmentalist radical strategy for the defeated Communist project. We should deeply revise the Marxist heritage of some radical leftist literature about environment (surveyed in this chapter) in order to open a viable intellectual and political radical change in contemporary domestic and international politics. It is assumed that the environmental issue is the most likely catalyst of a feasible radical change. The chapter also includes considerations about current international politics and science policy/politics.
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Poli, C. (2015). From the Post-Political Condition to an Environmentalist Polity. In: Environmental Politics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17614-7_4
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