Conflitti della transizione: militarismo, capitalismo fossile e crisi socio-ecologica

This article develops a reflection on the war between Russia and Ukraine. This reflection attempts to answer some questions regarding the causes and consequences of this conflict in a perspective that concerns the Earth and the global socio-ecological changes that are taking place. In this article we ask ourselves if war can be considered a constitutive element of social relations sculpted by global capitalism, if a global civil war is looming, also fueled by radical geo-climatic changes, if this conflict anticipates even deeper tensions in relation to the end of a systemic cycle of accumulation of global capitalism. Furthermore, the article asks whether the combination of militarism and fossilism can be considered a fatal and infernal synthesis for the looming of new future wars: weapons and fossil energy have been in the last two centuries a powerful factor of colonial and imperial expansion, a context in which the warfare between states and capitalism can only increase and endorse open warfare. To get out of this spiral of militarism, fossilism and war it is necessary to establish an ecological culture of peace that challenges the military cultures and the petro-cultures that pervade many societies on the planet. We must ask ourselves whether the “sweet trade” of globalized geo-capitalism was in fact capable of removing the spectre of war between humans and against nature or whether that - war - is precisely its permanent filigree (of capital).