Based off of our Ecosocialism 101 workshop, this reading list is compiled from our Ecosocialism 101 workshops. The authors and works below were covered at varying levels in our Ecosocialism 101 workshops, with some being mentioned in passing and others being addressed in depth and most somewhere in between. These works are by no means an all encompassing list of ecosocialist authors and works, but are drawn from our workshops, which plot a particular path towards a Green Socialist centric vision of ecosocialism, which the Green Party officially adopted in its platform in 2016, though socialists have always been a key segment of the party.
This initial list was drawn from our November 2023 Ecosocialism 101 workshop and is a work in progress. As we find more free text or audiobook resources from the list, we will add them, as well as digging into some past Ecosocialism 101 workshops for supplemental content. For instance, our November 2022 Ecosocialism 101 workshop was focused on all the ideas, movements, authors, and works that were not included in our original Ecosocialism 101 workshops.
Debs
Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution (Free Audiobook)
Elinor Ostrom
Governing the Commons (Audiobook available on Audible, Apple)
Peter Staudenmaier
(with Biehl) Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
Eric Larsen
The Operating System: A Modern Theory of the State
Gramsci
Blair Taylor
Seven Left Myths About Capitalism
From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
Kant
Hegel
Feuerbach
Suggested Reading for the Kant-Hegel-Feuerbach Foundation to Marxism: Engels’ Feuebach: The Roots of Socialist Philosophy
Thomas More
Utopia (1515) (Free Audiobook)
Saint-Simon
Owen
A New Vision of Society (Free Audiobook)
Fourier
The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier: Selected Texts
Karl Marx
Manifesto of the Communist Party (with Engels) (Free Audiobook)
Capital (Volume 1) (Free Audiobook)
Kautsky
Bernstein
Lenin
The State and Revolution (Free Audiobook)
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Free Audiobook)
Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays (Free Audiobook)
Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution (Free Audiobook)
Pannekoek
Proudhon
The Federative Principle and the Need to Reconstitute The Party of Revolution
What Is Property? (Free Audiobook)
Bakunin
Marxism, Freedom, and the State (? unsure if should recommend)
Berkman
What Is Communist Anarchism? (Free Audiobook)
Rocker
Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism (Free Audiobook)
Horkheimer
Traditional and Critical Theory
Adorno
The Culture Industry (with Horkheimer)
Marcuse
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
CLR James
Every Cook Can Govern (Free Audiobook)
Angela Davis
Women, Race, and Class (Free Audiobook)
Dan Chodorkoff
Hal Draper
The Two Souls of Socialism (Free Audiobook)
Wayne Price
Howie Hawkins
The Case for an Independent Left Party (Free Audiobook)
What’s Wrong with Capitalism and Why We Need Ecosocialism
Bookchin
The Ecology of Freedom (Free Audiobook)
The Next Revolution (Free Audiobook)
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Free Audiobook)
Joel Kovel
Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon
Michael Lowy
Why Ecosocialism: For A Red-Green Future
Foster
Marx and Nature
Burkett
Marx and the Earth
Saito
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
“Hegemony and Socialist Strategy”
Guy Debord
“The Society of the Spectacle” (Free Audiobook)
Andreas Malm