Tag Archives: climate change
The Trump administration’s fear of teenagers
Trump’s and Mnuchin’s attacks on Greta Thunberg at the Davos summit reveal their fear of the youth climate strike movement. Continue reading
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg–book review
A review of the book “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference” by Greta Thunberg. Continue reading
Climate strikes as resistance and revolutionary potential: the connection with Marcuse’s concept of the liberation of nature as determinant between socialism and fascism
A paper given at the International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference
Oct. 11, 2019, Santa Barbara. Continue reading
‘Down to Earth’ by Bruno Latour: a diversionary political fiction lands in capitulation
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, by Bruno Latour (Polity Press, 2018). Review by Franklin Dmitryev Bruno Latour’s new book Down to Earth (touted in The New York Times as “a brilliantly mind-bending book”) is the latest … Continue reading
Socialism and Ecology
A presentation given as part of a series on “What Is Socialism?” Continue reading
The Green New Deal
Calls for a “green new deal” risk the kind of state/party co-optation of movements from below that was involved in the 1930s New Deal. Continue reading
Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015. III. Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy. A. Karl Marx haunts capitalism’s stagnation. B. The race toward climate chaos. Continue reading
