It's not easy to explain Marx's economics in a clear, straightforward and entertaining way, but Hadas Thier succeeds brilliantly. Nobody has done it better.
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Red & Green Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2020
Five book announcements and three book reviews. Origin of Covid-19; History of pollutions; Collapse of US farming; Capital today; Social justice and the environment
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part Three
The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves
Movement Building
There is no shortcut to an ecosocialist future
Voting for liberals won’t work. Nor will isolated actions by small groups. Building mass movements is hard work, but it is the only way to win
NOAA REPORT
Earth just had its hottest September on record
Unprecedented global temperatures made last month the hottest September since 1880. 2020 will likely be one of the three warmest years on record.
Reading matter
Review: ‘China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse’
China's reckless mode of development has savaged its environment and ecology. Is a new revolution the only way to prevent disaster?
Movement debate
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
Biodiversity
Capitalism – not ‘humanity’ – is killing the world’s wildlife
The new Living Planet report grimly documents global environmental destruction, but lets the responsible systems and institutions off the hook
War Communism?
Book Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Gradual reforms can't do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.
An ecosocialist Manifesto
For an egalitarian, cooperative road to ecosocialism!
Australian ecosocialists call for a new mass movement to stop capitalism from destroying our common future.