A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism

Ian Angus demonstrates that twenty-first century socialism is necessarily ecological and that twenty-first century ecology is just as necessarily socialist. He achieves this remarkable result by means of debates, polemics, and arguments that serve to reunite socialism with science and ecology with the humanity’s long revolution for sustainable human development. This is a profound work of hope that draws its strength from its courageous confrontation with the challenges and burdens of our time.

—John Bellamy Foster, co-author (with Paul Burkett), Marx and the Earth

A unique collection of articles explaining highly consequential debates in the natural and social sciences, as well as in environmental politics and theory. In a wonderfully accessible way, Angus clarifies the real-world implications of these debates and their importance in the struggle for a better world.

—Hannah Holleman, author, activist, and professor of sociology, Amherst College

A Redder Shade of Green is brilliant, useful and well documented. In the face of the ongoing environmental catastrophe that capitalism cannot prevent, the author convincingly calls for a new alliance between Marxism and natural sciences. It would be a tragedy, indeed, if the left cannot seize the opportunity of a powerful science-based challenge to the present social order.

—Daniel Tanuro, author, Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work

More than just a series of incisive contributions that seeks to integrate Marxist social science and Earth System science, A Redder Shade of Green is a much-needed call for a new scientific ecosocialism of the 21st century.

—Federico Fuentes, editor, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Beautifully written, engaging and illuminating, these essays offer a strong case for ecosocialism as a fusion of the sciences of nature and an updated Marxism, both recast now under the shadow of the Anthropocene.

—John Foran, professor of sociology and environmental studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ian Angus has long been at the forefront of bringing together the socialist and environmental movements and these thought-provoking essays demonstrate his wonderful ability to make complex scientific and political ideas accessible. For those fighting for a sustainable society in the face of fossil fuel capitalism, they offer important insights, powerful polemics, and much food for further debate.

—Martin Empson, author, Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History