"Fosilní kapitalismus nezemře přirozenou smrtí": nad limity nenásilí a reformismu na hořící planetě

Title:

"Fosilní kapitalismus nezemře přirozenou smrtí": nad limity nenásilí a reformismu na hořící planetě
“Fossil capitalism won’t die a natural death”: on the limits of non-violence and reformism on a burning planet

Creator:

Reichelová, Tereza

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ab49d31f-69d4-4dcc-ad87-7c03f3ffc37a
uuid:ab49d31f-69d4-4dcc-ad87-7c03f3ffc37a
doi:10.46957/con.2022.1.9

Subject:

climate movement, climate sabotage, and ecological leninism

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This review essay discusses How to Blow Up a Pipeline and Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency by Andreas Malm. The texts are read not as academic research (presupposing methodological neutrality and objectivity of the author), but as an attempt to use the language and arguments of social sciences to revive strategic debates inside the climate movement, with the author openly disclosing his political positions and trying to convince others. Malm argues that the climate movement is now paralyzed by two myths: social-democratic temporality and non-violence. Both are based on flawed logic that advocacy and reformism can convince capitalism – as the primary cause of climate change – to commit suicide before it is too late, and on false historical analogies declaring that pacifism – not only towards people but towards private property as well – is strategically advantageous. But, he argues, since the climate crisis will only get worse and it is the status quo that creates and deepens it there is no time to wait. The climate movement should escalate conflict and directly attack capitalist economic system, not worrying too much about public support. Each book is thus an attempt to imagine an alternative to the movement’s current strategy: climate sabotage in the case of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and ecological leninism in Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

141-155

Source:

Kontradikce: časopis pro kritické myšlení | 2022 Volume:6 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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