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Left Green Perspectives [complete back issue list]

[Note: Left Green Perspectives is not currently an active project. The monetary figures listed with each issue represent the cover price at the time of publication.]

Issue #1 (January 1986) $.50:
“The Greening of Politics: Toward a New Kind of Political Practice,” by …

Left Green Perspectives [an introduction]

Left Green Perspectives (formerly Green Perspectives)
A Social Ecology Publication
The Social Ecology Project
With the emergence of a new millennium, it should not be surprising that old socialist ideologies–borne of the Industrial Revolution–are no longer adequate to encompass the sweeping social changes that have occurred over the past two centuries. As transnational capitalism, facilitated by radically new technological …

Left Green Perspectives #38

The Unity of Ideals and Practice
by Murray Bookchin
Recently I have begun to encounter, especially among young people, individuals who call themselves “leftists” but who have little or no awareness of the most basic features of the Left’s longstanding analysis of capitalism, or of the history of the revolutionary movements …

Left Green Perspectives #37

The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”:
Militia Fever
by Janet Biehl
At a time when the political sands have shifted massively to the right nearly everywhere, when the right is riding high while the left languishes in debris, it is increasingly common to hear the cry “Neither left nor right!” Few …

Left Green Perspectives #36

ANNALS OF ANARCHISM
Terror Reigns in Manhattan
by Michael D. Weiss
Editors’ note: The following article singles out a real crisis that is emerging in anarchism, not only in the U.S. but in Europe as well: the steady degeneration of a left-libertarian radical theory and …

Left Green Perspectives #35

From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi
by Matthew Kalman and John Murray
Matthew Kalman and John Murray are editors of the eco-political investigative magazine Open Eye, which has been uncovering and exposing David Icke and “New Age Nazism.” Address: BM Open Eye, London WC1N 3XX. Issue 3 is available for £1.70.
It …

Left Green Perspectives #34

Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship?
by Markus Mathyl
Editors’ note: This article explores the affiliations of self-styled Communist parties in Russia with parties of the nationalist and fascist right. These groups share a common opposition to the government and policies of Boris Yeltsin and together constitute the “national-patriotic opposition.” …

Left Green Perspectives #33

When “Realism” Becomes Capitulation
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right,
changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary,
and does not consist wholly with anything which was.
–Thoreau
One of the most dangerous aspects of the present cultural and social counterrevolution is the widespread belief that capitalism is here to stay, that …

Left Green Perspectives #32

Inside Russia Today:
An Interview with Vadim Damier
by Wolfgang Haug
This issue of Green Perspectives focuses on recent developments in Russia from the perspective of anarchist Vadim Damier. Since 1987, Damier, who lives in Moscow, has been active in a number of different political tendencies. He presently belongs to the Group of Revolutionary Anarchosyndicalists/Friends …

Left Green Perspectives #31

What is Communalism?
The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism
by Murray Bookchin
Seldom have socially important words become more confused and divested of their historic meaning than they are at present. Two centuries ago, it is often forgotten, “democracy” was deprecated by monarchists and republicans alike as “mob …