Against the Crisis

Economy and Ecology in a Burning World

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today's economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create a historical exception to the rule. It is time for ecosocialism against crisis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-26
Mått:153 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781804293805
Översättare:Steven Cuzner, Ståle Holgersen, Stale Holgersen

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Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden. He is a member of two research collectives: the Zetkin Collective (ecosocialist group working on political ecologies of the far right) published White Skin, Black Fuel on Verso in 2021 and Fundament (a housing research collective) published Kris i Bostadsfrågan on Daidalos in 2023. This is his first monograph in English.

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The most clarifying dissection of 'crisis' as concept and reality to appear in several decades, at the least. As we lurch from one crisis to another, this will be essential reading

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction: Crises Are Not Opportunities - They Are the Enemy1 When the Economy Is Not Healthy...Economic CrisisA Century of Crises: In Theory and RealitySolving a Crisis/Crisis as Solution2 An Infected WoundEcological CrisisAnthropocene: Th e Crisis of Man?Not Solving the Climate Crisis3 Rooted in CapitalismFive Levels of AbstractionTo Shake and to Stabilise4 The Class Character of CrisesLosing, Winning and Causing CrisesCrises Are Caused by One Class, but AnotherMust Pay the PriceNo One Is Punished, but Murder It Remains5 Creating Crises in Its Image6 Our Crisis Is NowThe Useless DecadeThe Corona Crisis as Social ParoxysmThe Crisis of Neoliberalism, or: Thoughts on How the Crisis Reproduces Capitalism This TimeEpilogue: Optimism at the Edge of a CliffTen Thoughts on Socialist Crisis PolicyIndex