Critical engagements with “Climate Change as Class War”—staying in the ring

Abstract

This paper is a review of Matt Huber’s book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, emphasizing its value for teaching, its contribution to building a broader climate movement, and questions about class and about the treatment of environmental movements. This paper is part of the SPE Special Theme “Critical Engagements with ‘Climate Change as Class War.’”

Keywords:

• intersectionality
• Matthew Huber
• social reproduction
• teaching

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Notes

1 See Levien, “White Energy Workers,” and Huber’s response: “The Professional Class Vanguard.”

2 See also Akbulut in this issue of SPE.

3 Huber, Climate Change as Class War, 22.

4 See also Collard and Dempsey, “Accumulation by Difference-Making.”

5 Stand.Earth, “Fossil Fuel Divestment.”

6 Andreas Malm on the book jacket.

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Emilie Cameron

Emilie Cameron teaches in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.