Kamran Nayeri: The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It

Revolutionary University October 2018

An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism

The world is in the midst of profound social and planetary crises, which threaten humanity and much of life on Earth: Catastrophic climate change, the Sixth Extinction, and nuclear holocaust. Why are they surfacing now? What are the root causes of these crises? How can humanity overcome them and thrive? Who can save the world?

Kamran Nayeri is the publisher and editor of Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism. He was a leader of the Iranian Trotskyist movement and participant in the 1979 Iranian revolution. He was a researcher/professor at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn and University of California, Berkeley for three decades.

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