Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS) was founded in Santa Cruz in 1988 as a journal for left researchers and movement-based individuals from around the globe. CNS is an international, multi-disciplinary journal of eco-socialism, encompassing anticapitalist perspectives that are both egalitarian and environmental in orientation. The primary aim of CNS is to help create a red-green intellectual culture, essential to the development of a red-green politics.
CNS is a platform for intellectuals who may be outside or at the margins of academic institutions and it is a forum for encouraging and facilitating critical debates on timely issues of environment and radical politics—feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist. We believe that debates are essential to building new forms of thought and strategies on politics and/of the environment, and is ultimately crucial for mobilizing creative political action.
CNS is non-sectarian. We are not affiliated with any political party or organized political tendency and are open to diverse views within left ecology/ecological left movements.
CNS serves as an outlet for those striving to connect/explain ecological and social issues through egalitarian anticapitalist approaches.
We welcome submissions on themes like red-green politics, science/technology and relations of domination, technical/practicable solutions enabling ecosocialist alternatives, environmental movements/politics, political ecology, environmental history, environmental justice/conflicts, workplace and prison struggles, land/community/decolonization struggles, ecosocialist-ecofeminist theory and movements, political economy of environment, and postcapitalist egalitarian futures.
CNS Editors
CNS has thrived in the cultural and intellectual zeitgeist for over 35 years because of our dedicated editors and contributors from around the world. Learn more about our Senior Editorial Board, Contributing Editors, Ecofeminist Collective, Reviews Committee, Red-Green Study Group, and Editors in Memoriam.
Publish with Us
If you would like to contribute an essay, a short piece, e-report, a review, event, or artwork for our site, contact us. We publish pieces that foster and facilitate critical debates on the environment and radical politics.
We are especially interested in the work of younger authors and authors from underrepresented social groups and geographical areas.
For contributions aimed at academic publication in CNS journal, please go to the journal’s instructions for submissions page at the link below.
Read the Ecosocialist Manifesto
This manifesto was written in 2001 by former CNS Editor-in-Chief Joel Kovel & French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist Michael Löwy.
Sister Organizations & Journals
EcoSocialist Horizons
Ecosocialist Horizons seeks to advance ecosocialism as a world-view and as a movement capable of offering real answers to the crises caused by capitalism by sharing analyses, educating members, and hosting convergences.
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Global Center for Climate Justice
The Center is a nonprofit multidisciplinary research and networking think tank dedicated to advancing a more transformative politics that addresses the root causes of the climate crisis and social injustices of all kinds.