Vishwas Satgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vishwas Satgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vishwas |
| FAMILY NAME | Satgar |
| SIGNATURE | SATGAR V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4572-9797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ecomodernism is ecofascism
Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism
End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy
The South African climate justice movement presents a model for popular revolt against the ecofascist project
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global rivalry and resistance
Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, critique and struggle
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the ecological limits of capitalism; the crisis of global…
The South African Precariat, Covid-19 and #Bignow
Currently, there are 95 countries on the planet that have vibrant campaigns for universal basic income grants (BIG). A global coalition of these campaigns has also called on the United Nations General Secretary to support a BIG agenda for the planet, to complement existing public benefits and goods. Such requests have been reinforced by the Pope, who on Easter weekend also called for a basic income grant. With economies shut due to COVID-19 or cr…
Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
"Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism t…
The Anti-Racism of Marxism: Past and Present
Introduction: Old and New Fascism
Black Neofascism? The Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa
This article argues that twenty-first century fascism is variegated and shaped by complex socioecological conditions. While enabled by the specific conditions of contemporary capitalist crisis, it is actually different from its antecedents. This requires actual in situ case studies. Hence, this article focuses on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in South Africa and explores its emergence in the conjuncture of hegemonic crisis faced by the ruli…
Climate and food inequality: The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response
This article focuses on climate and food inequalities while highlighting food sovereignty responses. It provides an analysis of climate inequalities ramifying through the world today. At the same time, food inequality is conceptually clarified as a counter approach to food security. It is argued that food inequality is consistent with the case for food sovereignty. Moreover, the combination of climate and food inequalities also highlight the comp…
Transitional compass: Anti-capitalist pathways in the interstitial spaces of capitalism
The focus of the special issue explores the forms of power used, engendered, and (re)produced to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality as well as concrete empirical examples of movements, workers’ struggles, and initiatives in challenging inequality. The idea of ‘transitional compass’ looks beyond protest politics to what we call ‘generative’ politics that builds the alternatives in the interstitial …
Racism after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments an…
Capitalism’s Crises: Class struggles in South Africa and the world
Cooperative Alternatives in the Twenty-first Century: Shift Change and Nothing Like Chocolate
Beyond Marikana: The Post-Apartheid South African State
This article situates the Marikana massacre, in which 34 mine workers were gunned down by police in South Africa, in the context of what the South African state has become, and questions the characterisation of the post-Apartheid state as a 'developmental state'. This contribution first highlights what is at stake when the post-Apartheid state is portrayed as a 'developmental state' and how this misrecognition of the state is ideologically consti…
Racism After Apartheid
"Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism t…
Beyond Marikana: The Post-Apartheid South African State
This article situates the Marikana massacre, in which 34 mine workers were gunned down by police in South Africa, in the context of what the South African state has become, and questions the characterisation of the post-Apartheid state as a 'developmental state'. This contribution first highlights what is at stake when the post-Apartheid state is portrayed as a 'developmental state' and how this misrecognition of the state is ideologically consti…
Climate and food inequality: The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response
This article focuses on climate and food inequalities while highlighting food sovereignty responses. It provides an analysis of climate inequalities ramifying through the world today. At the same time, food inequality is conceptually clarified as a counter approach to food security. It is argued that food inequality is consistent with the case for food sovereignty. Moreover, the combination of climate and food inequalities also highlight the comp…
Black Neofascism? The Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa
This article argues that twenty-first century fascism is variegated and shaped by complex socioecological conditions. While enabled by the specific conditions of contemporary capitalist crisis, it is actually different from its antecedents. This requires actual in situ case studies. Hence, this article focuses on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in South Africa and explores its emergence in the conjuncture of hegemonic crisis faced by the ruli…
Beyond Marikana: The Post-Apartheid South African State
This article situates the Marikana massacre, in which 34 mine workers were gunned down by police in South Africa, in the context of what the South African state has become, and questions the characterisation of the post-Apartheid state as a 'developmental state'. This contribution first highlights what is at stake when the post-Apartheid state is portrayed as a 'developmental state' and how this misrecognition of the state is ideologically consti…
Cooperative Alternatives in the Twenty-first Century: Shift Change and Nothing Like Chocolate
Capitalism’s Crises: Class struggles in South Africa and the world
The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments an…
Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
"Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism t…
The Anti-Racism of Marxism: Past and Present
Introduction: Old and New Fascism
Black Neofascism? The Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa
This article argues that twenty-first century fascism is variegated and shaped by complex socioecological conditions. While enabled by the specific conditions of contemporary capitalist crisis, it is actually different from its antecedents. This requires actual in situ case studies. Hence, this article focuses on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in South Africa and explores its emergence in the conjuncture of hegemonic crisis faced by the ruli…
Climate and food inequality: The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response
This article focuses on climate and food inequalities while highlighting food sovereignty responses. It provides an analysis of climate inequalities ramifying through the world today. At the same time, food inequality is conceptually clarified as a counter approach to food security. It is argued that food inequality is consistent with the case for food sovereignty. Moreover, the combination of climate and food inequalities also highlight the comp…
Transitional compass: Anti-capitalist pathways in the interstitial spaces of capitalism
The focus of the special issue explores the forms of power used, engendered, and (re)produced to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality as well as concrete empirical examples of movements, workers’ struggles, and initiatives in challenging inequality. The idea of ‘transitional compass’ looks beyond protest politics to what we call ‘generative’ politics that builds the alternatives in the interstitial …
Racism after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global rivalry and resistance
Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, critique and struggle
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the ecological limits of capitalism; the crisis of global…
The South African Precariat, Covid-19 and #Bignow
Currently, there are 95 countries on the planet that have vibrant campaigns for universal basic income grants (BIG). A global coalition of these campaigns has also called on the United Nations General Secretary to support a BIG agenda for the planet, to complement existing public benefits and goods. Such requests have been reinforced by the Pope, who on Easter weekend also called for a basic income grant. With economies shut due to COVID-19 or cr…
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism
End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy
The South African climate justice movement presents a model for popular revolt against the ecofascist project
Racism After Apartheid
"Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism t…
Ecomodernism is ecofascism
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