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Building socialism on a warming planet by Matthew T. Hubert

The climate crisis is a class problem rooted in who owns controls and profits from material production

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Matt Hubert argues that the carbon intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change

The narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge

For an alternative strategy

He proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society

The working class

Hubert evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and

ecological interests and

Advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to transform

In the end as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th century

Winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity

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Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jacobin magazine my name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island

The capitalist world system is ordered from its political economic centers

But its structure and dynamics have above all else been analyzed exposed and to a certain extent transformed from the periphery

particularly from Latin America

This interview is about the United Nations Sepal

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