Tag: Climate
Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth
Christian Zeller follows up on David McNally and Gareth Dale’s dual-power perspective on ecosocialist strategy in the context of the recent extreme heatwaves.
In Defense of Climate Anger
Our biospheric breakdown is not a tragedy but a crime—a crime so egregious that we must raise our collective fist in righteous anger.
Know Your Enemy
Alex King reviews Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective’s White Skin, Black Fuel, calling the original study a systematic inquiry into the political ecology of the far right in the twenty-first century.
We’re on Our Own
Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi argue that what happened in Texas is not an example of capitalism in crisis, but rather an example of the system at work.
Extracting the Andes
Jeffery R. Webber reviews Martín Arboleda’s exceptionally ambitious Planetary Mine..
Let a Thousand Fiefdoms Bloom
Chris Smaje’s new book has received glowing reviews from ecosocialists. But scratch beneath the surface, and you will find a disturbing vision of the future defined by exploitation, domination, and patriarchy.
Global Fever
Gareth Dale reviews Andreas Malm’s forthcoming book on responses to the coronavirus and climate change. “Malm describes his project as Leninist—but which of the umpteen Lenins is his?”
Infectious Optimism
Dan Boscov-Ellen writes about the limits of reform to stave off climate change, and proposes radical alternatives.
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Historically, epidemics have spread through two forms of movement: trade and war. Kim Moody examines how the pace of this spread accelerated dramatically with the rise of capitalism.
Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
Members of Cooperation Jackson argues that we must do everything that we can to create a new, just, equitable and ecologically regenerative economy.