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Democracy and Ecological Crisis

Nancy Holmstrom — 2018-07-15T17:19:55Z

Last fall 15,000 scientists issued a second dire notice to humanity that we are on a collision course with the limits of our planet. They concluded, “To prevent widespread misery, humanity must practice a more environmentally sustainable alternative to business as usual,” including “reassess[ing]... the role of an economy rooted in growth.” That means that we have to challenge capitalism; there is no capitalism without growth. Rosa Luxemburg's statement on the eve of World War I that the choice is between socialism or barbarism was never more true. But today our struggle is about our very existence.

- IV522 - July 2018 / Ecology and the Environment

Women's March 2017: The Birth of a New Women's Movement?

Nancy Holmstrom — 2017-01-25T13:39:43Z

I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. The size, the inclusiveness, the defiant but good-humored spirit, and the progressive politics all make me very optimistic, though there will be challenges.

- IV504 - January 2017 / United States (USA), Women

Feminisms of the Left

Nancy Holmstrom — 2016-08-03T13:04:59Z

I like our panel's title: “Feminisms of the Left.” There is a long and confusing collection of names for those who are both leftists and feminists: Marxist feminist, socialist feminist, materialist feminist, black feminist, feminist socialist, anarcho-feminist, and so on. And straddling the line between socialist and liberal feminists would be social-welfare feminists. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the heyday of the women's liberation movement, when “feminism” was too tame a word, the mainstream feminists were social-welfare feminists.

- IV499 - August 2016 / United States (USA), Women

Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time

Nancy Holmstrom — 2016-03-08T08:35:17Z

Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?

- IV494 - March 2016 / Marxism, Women