#107 Climate activism and the fetishisation of nonviolence w/ Andreas Malm
Politics Theory Other
Politics Theory Other
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success. |
| 0:05.0 | The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to |
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| 0:23.6 | the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:49.7 | My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Andreas Malm. We talked about his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline. |
| 0:56.0 | We chatted about why the climate movement is so fiercely committed to nonviolence, even to the point of opposing destruction of property, |
| 1:03.0 | how that hinders climate activism, and how the advocates of non-violence edit the history of popular struggles and liberation movements in order to downplay the importance of the more militant wings of those struggles. |
| 1:14.7 | Today's show is brought to you by PTO's supporters on Patreon |
| 1:17.6 | and also by Verso Books, who have lots of excellent titles |
| 1:20.7 | that may be of interest to PTO listeners. |
| 1:23.3 | One that you might like to check out is Rontia Capitalism, |
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| 1:28.4 | Christophers. The book looks at how Britain's economy became a bastion of inequality, |
| 1:33.1 | with the ownership of scarce assets such as land, intellectual property and digital platforms, |
| 1:38.6 | dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals. |
| 1:43.0 | Frequently invoked, but never previously analyzed and |
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| 1:51.7 | It's out now from Verso Books. Visit the website versopbooks.com to find out more. |
| 1:57.8 | Andreas Marm is a scholar of human ecology and the author of The Progress of This Storm and of Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize. |
| 2:07.6 | His other books include White Skin Black Fuel and Corona Climate Emergency, which we talked about in episode 91. |
| 2:16.0 | So in the book, you write about how the climate movement, with |
| 2:19.9 | vanishingly few exceptions, has generally resisted the use of deploying physical force to |
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