The climate crisis is a class problem rooted in who owns controls and profits from material production. In this ground breaking analysis, Matthew Huber argues that the carbon intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity. This episode of the dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at petrian dot com and by verso books,. which has loads of great left wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is climate change as class war, building socialism on a warming planet, by matthew t. Huber.
Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more.
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