Against the Crisis

Against the Crisis:Economy and Ecology in a Burning World

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CAPITALISM PRODUCES CRISES AND CRISES REPRODUCE CAPITALISM. WE NEED AN ECOSOCIALIST WAY OUT.

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today’s economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create a historical exception to the rule. It is time for ecosocialism against crisis.

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  • The most clarifying dissection of ‘crisis’ as concept and reality to appear in several decades, at the least. As we lurch from one crisis to another, this will be essential reading

    Andreas Malm, coauthor of Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
  • Sharp, panoramic, and fiercely principled, Against the Crisis is an invaluable guide to a world in which crisis is constantly proclaimed yet too rarely theorized. Ståle Holgerson deftly synthesizes and evaluates decades of Marxist debates about the nature of capitalist crises and updates them for the present age of planetary ecological breakdown, all the while offering acute insights into the stakes of crises for class struggle. Theoretically rich and politically perceptive, Against the Crisis casts a critical eye on oft-made claims—like the idea that crisis will drive capitalist collapse, or that crisis necessarily generates political opportunity—while offering suggestions for how the left might not only address the symptoms of crises but attack their underlying cause. Under capitalism, after all, crises are not the exception but the rule. Against the Crisis is a vital resource for political strategy in our volatile times.

    Alyssa Battistoni, coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
  • Holgersen's book is therefore more relevant than he may have anticipated when he wrote it.

    Arkiv