International climate diplomacy is hopeless, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline has said, as the film adaptation of the radical environmentalist book is released.
As activists around the world take increasingly desperate actions against destructive projects, Andreas Malm told the Guardian he had not “a shred of hope” elites were prepared to take the urgent action needed to avert catastrophic climate change.
“If we let the dominant classes take care of this problem, they’re going to drive at top speed into absolute inferno,” Malm said. “Nothing suggests that they have any capacity of doing anything else of their own accord because of how enmeshed they are with the process of capital accumulation.
His publishers – amusingly – sent me a copy of his previous book. In which he demanded that War Communism be introduced to deal with climate change. No, not some analogy, not some slip of a phrase, he wanted actual Leninist war communism to be the response.
At which point the Tosser can fuck off, obviously.
Nationalization of all industries and the introduction of strict centralized management
State control of foreign trade
Strict discipline for workers, with strikes forbidden
Obligatory labor duty by non-working classes (“militarization of labor”, including an early version of the Gulag)
Prodrazvyorstka – requisition of agricultural surplus (in excess of an absolute minimum) from peasants for centralized distribution among the remaining population
Rationing of food and most commodities, with centralized distribution in urban centers
Private enterprise banned
Military-style control of the railways
The results?
by 1921, heavy industry output had fallen to 20% of 1913 levels….a famine that caused between 3 and 10 million deaths
Yes, obviously, some get a hard on by imagining themselves around that Kremlin table determining the fates of tens of millions. But then there are also those who should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
There’s the reasonable answer here which is that adopting the most inefficient form of economic management known to man probably isn’t the way to solve an economic problem.
There’s an unreasonable answer which is that we shoot those advocating War Communism.
There’s also reality.
Malm has this fantasy of himself as Wolfie. At which point the Tosser gets to fuck off.
‘He had not “a shred of hope” elites were prepared to take the urgent action needed to avert a catastrophic energy shortage. Indeed they’re doing their best to bring it on.’
There. I’ve fixed that for him.
Huh
real War Communism has never been tried.
International climate diplomacy is hopeless, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline has said,
I didn’t know Biden could still write.
So ‘old man yells at cloud’ becomes ‘young man yells at the sun’…
OK. Fair dooz. If he can get a book “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” published, I can write a book on how to deal with climate protesters. And it will cover the subject extensively. Likely run to three volumes. With diagrams & sourcing information for precursors. All I need’s a publisher.
(Now where’s my well thumbed copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook got to)
take increasingly desperate actions against destructive projects
So they’re taking desperate actions to stop people blowing up pipelines?
As with others who are part of a religious cult, all these people are mad.
You will never be able to reason with them as reason does exist in their mindset and whatever demands you give in to (in the vain hope they will shut up a bit),or tortuous solutions to the supposed ‘crises’you come up with, will only be seen as weakness. To be exploited. Forever.
Do not entertain them. At all. Ever.
BiS – I’ve still got a copy on an Amiga formatted 880K disk. (Don’t tell the rozzers).
I also have Sensible Soccer and Sam Fox’s Strip Poker.
Sorry, O/T. As tomorrow is the end of the Ramadanabombathon, i’m glad to see Al Beeb running stories about Eid from space and Ramadan in Dubai.
I know that the 26rd April is Shakespeares birthday but isn’t there something else associated with the 23rd of April? That for some reason or other doesn’t appear to be mentioned on our state broadcasters website…..
23rd April. World Book Day, St George’s Day, National Cherry Cheesecake Day, Lover’s Day?? Google gives quite a few.
Of course National Cherry Cheesecake Day is a Yank day. But I love cheesecake.
Addolff
Something about a Turkish saint…
23rd is also Scream At The Populace Day here in the UK this year. Turn your phones off before 3pm.
And Andreas is just dumb enough to miss the fact that he’d end up being shot or sent to the camps. Because that’s what has happened to all Communist True Believers since the French Revolution.
@ Dennis
But he believes that he would be sent to the camps as Commandant, not a prisoner
@ Tractor Gent
The scream will not be stopped by turning the phone off. So either run the battery flat or leave it somewhere out of earshot.
Re: the government shouting at you via your mobile phone tomorrow…..Go to ‘Settings’, ‘Notifications’, ‘Emergency Alerts’, Off……….
Otto, he may be a Turkish saint, but he’s our Turkish saint.
john77: We may be lucky here. The Scream uses a 4G/5G broadcast protocol, and we live in a hole for which we need WiFi Calling. I doubt they’ve extended it to that yet since WiFi calling is a complete dog’s breakfast with both phone and network variant implementations.
I don’t have a problem with shooting those advocating for war communism, and for added Soviet authenticity also sending their next of kin a bill for the bullet.
I’ve still got a copy on an Amiga formatted 880K disk. says Steve
The one I have dates back to the 60’s, is Roneoed on paper & a testament to the people I used to hang around with in those days. These were the days when “hacker” meant someone who could “hack”or engineer their way into the phone system to use it without paying. Achievable on the GPO callboxes by manipulating the handset rest. It’s also the one with the recipes that work & aren’t likely to blow your own hands off. It’s widely believed that one of the US government agencies got into the supply chain for the ACB producing the version that’s more danger to the reader than anyone else. Which then out-proliferated the genuine article. One of the clues is: don’t attempt to synthesise nitroglycerine without access to a great deal of ice. However the chapter regarding “How to Make Explosives From Your Own Piss” seems to have vanished from digital versions. Possibly because it’s so easy, requires the purchase of no traceable precursors & works spectacularly. Although it won’t be a surprise to anyone with some basic chemistry or even a modicum of history.
Andreas Malm is a reminder of a point I raised on another recent thread. The Net Zero world will not come into existence thanks to the endeavours of professional & desk jockey tossers, intellectuals, arts grads & assorted feng shue merchants. It will come with the assistance of the world’s practical people. If he wants to talk of War, we can remove his nuisance without even breaking sweat.
https://twitter.com/JoanneNova/status/1649992215840845824?s=20
19 000 previously unrecorded volcanoes should shrink the human contribution of plant food to the atmosphere from the guesstimate 4% to a fraction of FA