A People's Green New Deal: Colonialism, Cochabamba, and Climate Change
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Max Ajl, sociologist and author, joins Breht to discuss his book "A People's Green New Deal".
Topics Discussed: the liberal Green New Deal, the history of colonialism, eco-modernism, climate reparations, the Cochabamba's Peoples Agreement, degrowth, ecosocialism, agroecology, the national question, Green Capitalism, and much more.
Max's work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max-Ajl
Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxajl
Max's Book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/
Check out my co-host on Guerrilla History Henry Hakamaki's interview with Max here (time stamp: 6:23:52): https://davidfeldmanshow.com/kamala-harris-do-not-come-home-episode-1246/
Outro Music: "Dead Buffalos" by C-Rayz Walz
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. |
| 0:08.8 | On today's episode I have the wonderful Max Isle on to talk about his latest book, A People's |
| 0:14.2 | Green New Deal. |
| 0:15.8 | We covered the book so many topics within it, The National Question, Agro Ecology, The |
| 0:20.5 | Importance of Antimeperialism and E-colonial Struggles in the Fight Against the Climate |
| 0:25.1 | Crisis, etc. |
| 0:27.3 | Really essential reading. |
| 0:29.0 | For anybody particularly on the Marxist Left but anybody on the Left broadly that really |
| 0:33.9 | wants to take seriously how we can confront the climate crisis in an equitable way and |
| 0:40.3 | in the process, you know, address the legacies of imperialism and colonialism imposed on |
| 0:48.2 | the global South. |
| 0:49.6 | So this is a really crucial work. |
| 0:51.4 | I cannot recommend it enough. |
| 0:53.4 | I think it's essential reading. |
| 0:55.2 | And there's also lots of other interviews and the little ecosystem of the principled |
| 0:59.0 | Left Podcasts that I really like. |
| 1:02.0 | And so you can check out more of those interviews. |
| 1:04.5 | I know millennials are killing capitalism, has a wonderful interview with Max. |
| 1:09.5 | Groundings. |
| 1:10.5 | East is a podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | This is hell. |
| 1:13.2 | All of them have interviews with Max and, you know, they all emphasize different things, |
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