A Major Transition for a Great Transformation: Reflections from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative

Type Journal Article - New Society Magazine
Title A Major Transition for a Great Transformation: Reflections from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative
Author(s)
Issue 237
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2012
Abstract
When discussing the development of a political project from the Left there are two opposing positions or aspects: those which promote the idea of better managing and regulating capitalism – that is, striving for “good capitalism” – and those who hold anticapitalist positions. The author of this article argues that a Left that does not give up on the generation of alternatives to capitalism but at the same time is responsible for governing, should think about a “great transition” without losing sight of the horizon of a “great transformation”. This article analyzes the Yasuní-ITT Initiative and presents it as an example of how to merge concrete and innovative proposals (transition) and utopias which go beyond capitalist development (transformation).

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