How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea…
Want to Read $ 7.39"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at ease. The first part of his response presented what we might call the objection from asymmetry: as soon as a social movement engages in violent acts, it moves onto the terrain favoured by the enemy, who is overwhelmingly superior in military capabilities. The state loves a fight of arms; it knows it will win. Our strength is in numbers. This is a pet argument for strategic pacifists, but it is disingenuous. Violence is not the sole field where asymmetry prevails. The enemy has overwhelmingly superior capabilities in virtually all fields, including media propaganda, institutional coordination, logistical resources, political legitimacy and, above all, money. If the movement should shun uphill battles, a divestment campaign seems like the worst possible choice: trying to sap fossil capital by means of capital."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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3. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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4. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
5. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
6. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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8. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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- philosophy
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- climate change
- environment
- science
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- activism
- climate change
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
10. The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
By: The Salvage Collective
3.59
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale o… read more
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11. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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12. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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13. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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14. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
15. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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16. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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17. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- environment
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
18. Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective
By: Camille Étienne
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
« On dit que les territoires nous façonnent. J’avais dix ans quand j’ai compris que le dérèglement … read more
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"Opposer l'écologie au peuple, c'est s'assurer d'empêcher le soulèvement collectif."-Camille Étienne, Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective
"Il faut désobéir, dès qu'on le peut. Car beaucoup suffoquent sous les genoux d'autres et n'ont pas d'autre choix que la soumission à un ordre établi qui les écrase."-Camille Étienne, Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective
"Ce n'est pas un combat de générations. C'est un combat qui donne le vertige, un combat de l'humanité tout entière pour sa survie, pour qu'elle n'entraîne pas dans sa chute le reste du monde vivant."-Camille Étienne, Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective
"La décroissance n'est pas un abandon de l'idéal de progrès, ou un recul du niveau de vie : elle est au contraire l'espoir de voir le progrès et le niveau de vie poursuivre pour de vrai leur marche un…"-Camille Étienne, Pour un soulèvement écologique: Dépasser notre impuissance collective
19. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
By: Kate Soper
3.61
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life The… read more
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20. Que fait la police? et comment s’en passer
By: Paul Rocher
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Omniprésente dans les rues comme dans le débat public, la police soulève davantage de questions qu'… read more
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21. Pour une écologie pirate
By: Fatima Ouassak
4.41
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Nous manquons, aujourd'hui en Europe, d'un projet écologiste capable de résister aux politiques d'é… read more
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