Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world.

This week I speak to Jeff Mann, Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University and

author of, among others, in the long run, we are all dead, Keynesianism, Political Economy

and Revolution, and with Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan, a political theory of our

planetary future. We discuss capitalism, state power and climate breakdown, whether

the pandemic has ended near liberalism, and why democracy is so important to anti-capitalist

struggle today. Thanks so much to all our amazing patrons who make the show possible. If

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Makers, who've let us use their track Heavyweight Champion of the world as our intro and outro

music. And now here is Jeff Mann, on just how bad the story of climate breakdown really

is today. Hello, Jeff Mann, and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of

a world to win. How are you today? I'm great. Thanks, Grace. Nice to be here. It's great

to have you. It's been a bit of a wild summer for news about climate breakdown. We've seen

extreme temperatures, extreme weather events all around the world. And there's a lot of

talk about, you know, the state responding to this, whether it's kind of Biden and the

US or increasingly the conservatives over here. Do you think that anything is going to be

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