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The Alternative to Capitalism Nobody Talks About | Eleanor Finley & Camila Vergara
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46:52Now PlayingWar, austerity, and a political class that offers no way out. What does an actual alternative look like — one that's already being built?
Dr. Camila Vergara sits down with Eleanor Finley, author of Practicing Social Ecology (Pluto Press), to trace how democratic, ecological alternatives to capitalism move from theory into practice — from the commons of New England to the municipalities of Burlington, Vermont, to the feminist communes of Rojava in northern Syria.
Drawing on Murray Bookchin's intellectual legacy — rooted in Marx, anarchism, indigenous philosophy, and Hannah Arendt — this conversation maps what it takes to build real political power from the ground up: cooperative production, direct democracy assemblies, libertarian municipalism, and the internal transformation required to sustain a movement.
In this episode:
• What social ecology is and where it comes from
• The Burlington Greens, Bernie Sanders, and the limits of electoral politics
• How the Rojava revolution built democratic confederalism under siege
• Why women's liberation is central to any serious socialist project
• The "revolutionary personality" — patience, hope as discipline, conflict resolution
• What activists in the US can learn from movements abroad
Eleanor Finley is a political ecologist and activist. Practicing Social Ecology is out now from Pluto Press.
📚 Practicing Social Ecology (Pluto Press)
📚 Systemic Corruption (Princeton University Press)
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