Building a Post-Capitalist Global Movement. Pablo Solón

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This episode of The Green Interview features Pablo Solón, who as a Bolivian diplomat promoted his vision of a post-capitalist world but resigned in disillusionment with Evo Morales' perceived betrayal of his own professed ideals. Solón organized the World People's Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia, which gave voice to the global south and produced the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. He discusses the ideas behind this document, and the indigenous Andean idea of Buen Vivir, as pointing the way to a post-capitalist future. He talks about how nominally leftist Latin American governments have produced state capitalism or left capitalism intact, when what we need is an entirely new vision. He explains why he thinks achieving this vision requires a global movement, not just change in one country. He discusses the role of indigenous people's movements, the rights of indigenous people, and indigenous people's harmony with nature.