House Organ 1

The Struggle for Use Value: Thoughts about the Transition
By Joel Kovel 3
Creating an Ecological Socialist Future
By Aaran Gare 23

Environmental Governance and Legitimation: State-
Community Interactions and Agricultural Land
Degradation in Australia
By Stewart Lockie 41

International Biopiracy versus the Value of
Local Knowledge
By Joan Martínez Alier 59

Debate

Alain Lipietz and the Crisis of Political Ecology
By Joel Kovel 67
The Political Ecology of Marxism
By Daniel Faber and Allison Grossman 71
If We Had a Theory of Political Ecology, What Would it
Look Like
By Frank Ackerman 77
Nature, Labor and Gender: Marx, Lipietz and
Political Ecology
By Alan Rudy 83
Marxism and Ecology: A Comment on Lipietz
By Paul Burkett 90
On Political Ecology and the Future of Marxism:
A Comment on Alain Lipietz
By Walter Contreras Sheasby 96
From Marx to Ecology and Return? A Brief Reply
By Alain Lipietz 102

Eppur´ Si Muove

The Politics of Averages
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 111

Jeffrey Sachs on World Poverty: Three Critiques
By Andriana Vlachou; José Carlos Escudero; and
María Pilar Garcia-Guadilla 115

Ripples In Clio’s Pond

On Resigning from the Community of Life
By J. Donald Hughes 129

LA’s the Place: The Urban Character and Significance
of Los Angeles
Michael Dear, H. Eric Shockman, and Greg Hise, eds.,
Rethinking Los Angeles.
William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The
Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles.
Roger Keil, Los Angeles: Globalization,
Urbanization and Social Struggles
Allen J. Scott and Edward J. Soja, eds., The City:
Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the
Twentieth Century.
By Nathan Landau 137

Book Reviews

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power,
Earthly Ruin
By Willie Yaryan 149
Michael Goldman, ed., Privatizing Nature: Political
Struggles for the Global Commons
By Tim Stroshane 153