In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early twentieth Century, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society: the working-class. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’-it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. Her photography exhibition Portrait of A Village, Ukraine is on exhibition at ArtRage through March 11, 2023. ![]() ![]() Join us for an evening with artist Lida Suchy. The shelves groan with books on the coming apocalypse, but here, at long last, is a concrete strategy for socialists.”– Mike Davis Lida with an 8×10 camera on stove at the Potjak household, Christmas Eve, 1993. Equally he shows that the electoral road to a Green New Deal is a dead-end without a massive public struggle, integrally involving labor, for public ownership of the power industry. ![]() In a blazing critique, he skewers ‘radical’ as well as liberal environmentalists who advocate market solutions to a crisis whose very cause is the cost-and-profit logic of energy markets. “Huber has written a ‘What Is To Be Done?’ for all of us who are vexed by the failure of progressive climate activism to produce a blueprint for a national action with clear strategic goals. Register for the in-person or online event HERE Join Syracuse DSA for a hybrid, in-person & online, book launch event with author (and DSA member), Matt Huber.
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