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Back from a short city break to [[Manchester]]. Was a lot of fun. We packed a lot in.
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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.
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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?
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I shoud reread [[The Next Revolution]] to compare and contrast with the recent [[eco-socialism]] stuff.
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Doing a couple [[pomodoro for the revolution]] at Agora Meet.
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New claims:
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[[Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world]]
- This is actually no longer accurate. Costa Rica is currently top.