You Can Add Up the Parts, You Won't Have the Sum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Seymour (0009-0005-4841-3722, Salvage Magazine Editorial Collective, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 1331-1336 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08969205231181561 |
| OpenAlex | W4385953768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Matt Huber's Climate Change as Class War offers a compelling ecosocialist strategy for achieving energy transition and social transformation by way of class struggle. Its critique of the strategic emphasis on knowledge and individualised guilt is persuasive. Its proposed focus on organising among energy workers is suggestive. However, on two related points, it misses the mark. First, its attack on degrowth as a form of ideology is tendentious. Second, its effort to ground struggle in 'objective class interests' fails to cohere. By addressing these two points, the proposed strategy will become more viable, and the relationship to degrowth activists more productive
Class conflict · Degrowth · Economic system · Economics · Energy transition · Epistemology · Ideology · Neoclassical economics · New class · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |