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