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Radical clarity to the concept of real "change".

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The presidential primary season had pundits and pollsters proclaiming "change" a primary factor in the minds of many voters. It's little wonder that this stark period--marked by the so-called "War on Terror," the extension of neoliberalism across the globe, and the urgency of global warming--has motivated such vague desires among the citizenry. Undefined, undifferentiated and ultimately relegated to mere platitudes, "change" here means little; it is cosmetic, commodified, and reinforces the status quo. Absent is a lens, a coherent perspective through which current and future movements might comprehend and ultimately transcend the prevailing order, inspiring the crucial transformative "change" so necessary to reverse today's regressive and reactionary tendencies.

While the US Green Party struggles on and plans yet again to rely on a presidential candidacy to foster a "trickle down" growth for state and local parties, there is little to suggest that Greens or any other marginalized American Left movements are positioned to fill this void of coherent analyses and strategies for reconstructive action. Yet the American Green movement's early history included the influence of social ecology, a body of thought primarily developed by Murrary Bookchin, that articulates just such a vision based on ecological principles, notions of radical democracy, and...

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