Marks is permanently useful in his insistence that politics and economics are the same thing. The urge toward, in marks, towards justice and equality in a world that was very unjust and very unequal. These metabolic rifts are not solvable by science. They're facts of the natural world. There might be contingent local conditions but nevertheless they constrain what we can do. And sometimes marks is really good on that.
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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