The dangerous myths of ‘anti-extractivism’

Click here to access article by Federico Fuentes from Climate & Capitalism.

The narrow extractivism/anti-extractivism counter position has been used to foster divisions among social movements, weakening the unity needed for radical change to achieve radical change.

There is ample evidence to show that foreign governments and NGOs have been working to stoke, rather than resolve, tensions among the regions’ diverse social movements. Such forces are happy to promote “anti-extractivism” if it serves to bring down popular governments and roll back changes.

This website has now produced two other views on this issue in a current article entitled "Two views of ‘extractivism’ and ‘buen vivir’".