Abstract
Matthew Huber’s recently published book, Climate Change as Class War (Verso, 2022), offers an important contribution to recent socialist debates about how to deal with the climate crisis. In September 2022, Studies in Political Economy editor Ryan Katz-Rosene sat down with Huber and asked him to elaborate on his vision for a “socialist ecomodernism.” This paper is part of the SPE Special Theme “Critical Engagements with Climate Change as Class War.”
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Notes
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2 Kallis, “Socialism Without Growth”; Vettese and Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism; Phillips, Austerity Ecology; Löwy et al., “Ecosocialist Degrowth.”
3 Huber, Climate Change as Class War.
4 Global Aktion, “Class War or Degrowth?”
5 Huber, “Mish-Mash Ecologism.”
6 Huber, “Carbon Responsibility and Class Power.”
7 Nordhaus and Smith, “The Problem with Alice Waters.”
8 Breakthrough Institute. “Supply-Side Progressivism.”
9 Raworth, Doughnut Economics.
10 OxfordSmithSchool, “How to Save the Planet.”
11 Vettese and Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism.
12 Bakke, Grid.
13 Lih, Lenin Rediscovered.
14 Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
15 Zweig, Working Class Majority.
16 Moody, On New Terrain.
17 Klein, This Changes Everything.
18 McAlevey, “Organizing to Win a Green New Deal.”
19 Clarke and Hardy, “Working from Home.”
20 Wood, Origin of Capitalism.
21 Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change.
22 Copley, “Decarbonizing the Downturn.”
23 Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene.
24 Marx, “Letters.”
25 As quoted in Sam Gindin, “Beyond Fatalism.”
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Ryan Katz-Rosene
Ryan Katz-Rosene teaches in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.