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A People’s Green New Deal

A People’s Green New Deal

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  • Update Date：2025-09-07
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  • Author：Max Ajl
  • ISBN：0745341756
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Summary

The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018。 Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake， it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis。 But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal？ In this concise and urgent book， Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals。 Critically engaging with their proponents， ideological underpinnings and limitations， he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth， anti-imperialism and agro-ecology。 Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism。 Resolving this crisis， he argues， requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North， and the industrial convergence between North and South。 As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows， A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate。

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Kai ，

this book is a compelling intervention into debates concerning a potential Green New Deal that primarily focuses on two largely absent elements in other such plans: agroecology and north-south climate debts。 Ajl persuasively calls for these to not just be added on but centralized in any such GND， with a focus on the implications this has for how social life must change in the imperial core。 the division between critique and proposal means that some questions of politics-who and how-are still som this book is a compelling intervention into debates concerning a potential Green New Deal that primarily focuses on two largely absent elements in other such plans: agroecology and north-south climate debts。 Ajl persuasively calls for these to not just be added on but centralized in any such GND， with a focus on the implications this has for how social life must change in the imperial core。 the division between critique and proposal means that some questions of politics-who and how-are still somewhat abstract， and there are a few spots where i would disagree with the author's assessment （namely concerning whether the national question is best/only to be addressed through the nation-state form）。 but this is a polemical book which rests on the foundation that "clarity comes through disagreement and conversation"， and its clarification of stakes is not only needed but quite useful。 。。。more

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