If I may, one last point from me for while would be that political and economic theory and ideology by themselves won’t suffice for addressing global crises.
What’s needed in addition to them is a sort of ‘spirituality’ or sense of ‘totality’ that engenders the positive psychological aspects of theology without the irrational dogma upon which so much violent conflict and oppression and intolerance has been based. In some ways religious fundamentalism is a warped attempt to remedy some of the problems of modern, consumerist societies.
One can be a materialist in the philosophy of mind sense yet see the social and ecological destructive ness of acquisitive mentalities.
Butv a flaw within Marxism and derivative orientations is that adherents often aim at a more just distribution of material assets without questioning whether humankind in general has the right to stake such a massive claim on the biosphere in the first place.
In my opinion, old school Marxism has to be reconciled with ecological ethics and reformulated as eco-Marxism or eco-socialism.
‘Democratic’ is also a crucial qualifier for socialism.
At its best, socialism would be based on a more socially and ecologically sustainable access to goods and services necessary for humans to thrive physically and psychologically.
That is not the same as extreme consumerism, wherein many aspects of living in a materially intensive society give rise to physical and mental pathologies.
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