# 2022-08-28

-   Back from a short city break to [[Manchester]].  Was a lot of fun.  We packed a lot in.

-   Read: [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]
    -   Finished reading it earlier today, spread over the course of a few days.  Recollections:
    -   starts with a convincing overview of how catastrophic 'business as usual', green capitalism, etc, will be for the Earth system.
    -   covers the various different aspects of the crisis (sounds like polycrisis as per what Nick Dyer-Witheford in [[Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism]])
    -   asserts that only a rupture from capitalism is sufficient to avert disaster, and it is needed soon.
    -   so: starting from a position of [[eco-socialism]]
    -   Zeller then continues on to make own contribution to present debate as to what should [[eco-socialist]] strategies be.
    -   doesn't like Malm's take on Leninism.  Says it has a misguided stress on violence, and I think also that it misrepresents war communism.
    -   seems big on the idea of [[dual power]].  (At multiple scales).  I'm interested to explore more what is the difference between ideas of Leninist dual power and libertarian socialist dual power.
    -   advocates for [[socialisation]] of energy, transportation, and finance.  Socialisation being the first step to large-scale transformation.
        -   not sure what is the strategy for actually socialising things though?  Is that what hopes dual power can achieve?

-   I shoud reread [[The Next Revolution]] to compare and contrast with the recent [[eco-socialism]] stuff.

-   Doing a couple [[pomodoro for the revolution]] at Agora Meet.
    -   [X] copy highlights from [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]
    -   [X] as above

-   New claims:
    -   [[Capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis]]
        -   Not a particularly new or profound one, but a pretty foundational one for [[eco-socialism]] and thus worth documenting.
    -   [[Net zero is part of a global imperialist climate policy]]
        -   Don't know if I agree, but interesting and worth exploring.

-   [[Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world]]
    -   This is actually no longer accurate.  Costa Rica is currently top.