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Ecological Civilisation: A Challenge to Liberal Environmentalism?

May 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

Adjunct Professor Berthold Kuhn looks at the specific features of the concept and analyses from the perspectives of national policy making and international cooperation. The West, and environmental liberals more broadly, would benefit from a better understanding of and engagement with China’s experience of environmental policy making. He advocates paper increasing international engagement with China on environmental discourses and policy making. Some consider the concept, with historically charged references to […]

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Ecological Civilisation – China’s “Eight Principles”

May 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

The concept of ecological civilisation serves as a guide for China’s fast-track endeavour to tackle the challenges facing its environment and ecosystems, respond to the public’s aspirations for a pleasant and eco-friendly living environment and promote sustainable development in a balanced manner. It lends an ideological impetus to China’s active involvement in global ecological and environmental governance to become an important player, contributor and leader in the global endeavour to […]

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Capitalism and Robbery

May 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life From Monthly Review – https://monthlyreview.org/category/2019/volume-71-issue-07-december/ “The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil constitutes the basis of the capitalist mode of production. ” — “Karl Marx 1 “The power of abstraction,” Karl Marx noted, is absolutely crucial to the theoretical analysis of historical systems, as exemplified by his critique of capitalist political economy.2 But while the force of abstraction is […]