Buchvorstellung «Klima und Kapitalismus. Plädoyer für einen ökologischen Sozialismus

In the organizer's words:

How the left should respond politically to the climate crisis and what theoretical analysis is necessary for this is hotly debated. Many in the climate movement are calling for the relevant experts to be consulted. Others, on the other hand, see ecological issues as an ideological hobbyhorse of the privileged middle classes and trivialize the dramatic nature of climate change.

This is now in full swing: in 2024, the average global temperature was 1.6 degrees Celsius above the temperature of the pre-industrial age for the first time, meaning that the Paris Climate Agreement's magic mark of 1.5 degrees will soon be permanently exceeded. However, fossil capital is still firmly in the saddle and political developments give no hope that this will change any time soon. While the climate crisis continues to escalate, the inhabitants of the most affected regions of the world lack the means to adequately protect themselves against its consequences.

In "Climate and Capitalism - A Plea for Ecological Socialism", the authors embed scientific findings on climate change in a Marxist critique of the capitalist mode of production and use this as the basis for a plea for ecological socialism: a society in which the how and what of production is decided democratically and human needs take center stage. Only under these conditions can the pressing ecological issues of the present really be tackled