This Book Is a Knife : Radical Working-Class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, L. E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate justice.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the intersection of climate change, capitalism, and working-class struggles, advocating for radical revolutionary approaches to addressing the climate crisis. It examines the systemic failures of liberalism and the Green New Deal, highlighting the necessity of collective action, empathy, and imagination as tools of resistance against environmental and social injustices. The author, L.E. Fox, delves into topics such as climate justice, revolutionary violence, and the need to reimagine societal structures for sustainability and equity. Intended for an audience engaged in environmental activism and social change, the book combines theoretical insights with practical strategies to inspire transformative action. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

What We Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Need for Revolution

Say the Quiet Part Out Loud: A Few Points of Clarification Before We Dive In

Let This World End: You Say Apocalypse Like It’s a Bad Thing

Only the Idea Keeps Him In: On Freedom, Or You Know, Just Something for You to Think About

Lost Balloons: Empathy, the Climate Crisis, and the Western Working Class

Go-go Goat Carts: Imagination and Joy as Acts of Resistance in the Age of Climate Crisis

The Paddlefish and the Alligator: Is this the World You Want to Have?

What a Horse Is For: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Economics of Desire

Wedge Issue: A Short but Very Important Note on the Story that Follows

One of these Watermelons is Poisoned: A (Very) Dark Parable

Liberalism is a Luxury Good: Class, Climate, Politics, and the Cowardly Lie of the Green New Deal

Dear Gladis: On Revolutionary Violence, or Why Killer Whales are, in Fact, Our Friends

“But That’s Violence!”: A Short Note, in Which the Note is to Shut the Fuck Up

What If We Were Lions, Roy? In Defence of Learning How to Live

This Is Where They Want You, Down Here, On Your Knees: On Hope When You Have None

All This Could Be Ours: Imagining a World after this One

Acknowledgments

Notes

References and Further Reading

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ISBN:

9781551529721

1551529726

OCLC:

1517397596