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Reform- Transitional Demands-Maximum Demands (end of capitalism)
Assignment 1 Assessing a transition framework
: In week 3 you sign up for a f
ramework to analyze and report on in week 6. Key questions to answer about the framework you choose are below. Be sure when answering questions to give some explanation to your reply, particularly how or why. There is a required and often additional reading associated with whatever transition framework you choose for your assignment. While you are welcome to include further research and cite sources beyond these, you should centre your assignment around an engagement with the listed readings. Fill in the boxes and then submit, keep your total to about 750 words. When you submit to Turnitin, title your Word file in this way
: Name, framework
. This will help us mark more quickly.
1.
Is the framework looking forward to changes that could be made or backward to analyze what has happened in the past?
2.
Does it clearly identify different stages of transition? Do they make sense to you?
3.
Is it primarily about technology adoption or does it focus also on socio-cultural and economic
change?
This framework is looking forward to changes that could be made. It uses historical theories
from Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky to promote socialism and an end to capitalism. Socialist Appeal states, “As opposed to the latter, which simply listed partial reforms to be won on the basis of capitalism with socialism held up as a distant, abstract, prospect, transitional demands aim to raise concrete tasks, necessary for the workers, which cannot be achieved without workers’ power, in order to demonstrate in practice the need for revolutionary answers to the workers’ problems” (Socialist Appeal). As opposed to analyzing occurrences of the past, this framework looks at the current status
of the working class to devise ways to better their ways of life. The stages of this transition are clear, but it is difficult to consider these practical. Being a part of a capitalist society, it is difficult to believe that these ideas are attainable because these solutions contrast with the changes that can be seen recently (For example, capitalists
continuing to advance at the hands of margionalized groups of people). I agree with the statement that it is important to not identify with sectarianism because glamorizing a large system is inefficient when wanting to make life better in all aspects. This framework uses revisions in socio-cultural, and economics to promote change. For example, the proposals that are introduced in relation to the transitional demand are scale wages, adjusted work hours, and expropriation of certain businesses (socialist appeal). They relate to many systems of change like the above stated sectors.
4.
Does it assume that specified actors are driving change in a particular direction, or does it assume that wider forces beyond the control of groups of actors are determining how change happens?
5.
Does it distinguish between forces that block change (and strategies to remove them) and those that encourage change (and how to support them)?
6.
Does the framework acknowledge that power relationships between different groups in society can determine how change happens and who benefits from the changes?
7.
Does the model work at one or multiple scales (micro, meso, macro)?
8.
Based on what you’ve learned so far, in what sustainable environmental management area do
you think it best works (e.g., energy, water pollution, agriculture and food, biodiversity conservation, GHG emissions, etc) and why? Note that articles often focus on one topic, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most applicable SEM subject.
It assumes that actors are driving change in a particular direction, specifically, capitalists. To create the positive change that Trotsky and Marx suggests, it is done by having the working class involved to make decisions for their future. The forces that block change that are expressed in this framework are sectarianism. Where being attached to a specific affiliation will not help in the progression of society. Socialist appeal states, “exploited masses, led by the working class, must wage this struggle themselves and in doing so inevitably raise their own demands which go far beyond the democratic revolution and into the struggle for socialism” (Socialist Appeal). Strategies to remove them to encourage and support change lie at the hands of the working class. Yes, this framework acknowledges that power relationships between different groups in society can determine how change happens and who benefits from the changes. This is because revolutions are only possible when different power groups come together to achieve
a common goal. This can be seen when the working class was not adequate in preforming as a leader (socialist appeal). This model works on multiple scales. On the micro level, people demanding change can be seen through protesting and lobbying. This model works on the meso level by challenging trade unions and protesting for electoral reform. On the macro level, this model works by aiming to abolish capitalism completely by using multiple powerful groups and abolishing secret diplomacy.
Citations (use any style, just be complete and consistent):
This framework is best suited for the greenhouse gas emissions sector of environmental management. This is because emission goals have been most notably taken into consideration on a macro scale. The Transitional Programme is most effective when multiple powers come together to achieve a common goal. The Socialist Appeal states, “All the struggles of the masses, economic or political, must be drawn together as part of a socialist programme” (Socialist Appeal). In order for greenhouse gas emissions to reach sustainable levels, a balance between all social structures needs to be attained. Socialist Apeal. (n.d.). The Transitional Programme - A Reading Guide. Socialist Appeal. Retrieved October 30, 2022, from https://www.socialist.net/the-transitional-programme-a-
reading-guide.htm
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