The 3rd edition of the “Ecologies of Emancipation” summer school investigated the old revolutionary slogan of 1917 – „Bread, Land, and Peace” – from a double perspective. Firstly, through a series of investigations on the contemporary state of polycrisis affecting the global production and distribution of basic social necessities, the climate meltdown, and the militarization and fascization of political life. Secondly, from a historical perspective, by revisiting the way in which the initial revolutionary movements and ensuing communist states that sprung in Eastern Europe from that 1917 context dealt with these questions and handled their own polycrisis in their final decades – in order to see how these issues, of climate crisis, breakdown of the supply chains in basic necessities, and renewed militarization have been dealt with in their first instantiation, in a not so distant time and place.
