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Endless Accumulation, Endless (Unpaid) Work?

Endless Accumulation, Endless (Unpaid) Work?

Every civilisation must decide what is, and what is not, valuable. Marxists occasionally speak of a “law of value.” It is not a concept easily translated into everyday politics, or into our histories of capitalism. It sounds quaint, curiously out of step with our times. And yet the essential insight […]

Disaster Communism

Disaster Communism

Climate change is already here, although the effects are unevenly distributed. Last winter saw a series of storms of record-breaking wind speeds, rainfall, and intensity hit the UK. California’s current drought has seen lakes disappear into parched earth. Giant craters have begun appearing in Siberia, as methane explodes out of thawing […]

No Future

No Future

“We’ve got to look after our children; we have to look after our future; and we have to grow the economy and create jobs. We can do all of that as long as we don’t fear the future; instead we seize it.” ~ Barack Obama. About twenty years ago someone wrote a speech […]

Business-As-Usual

Business-As-Usual

The most recent reports from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make use of ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCPs). These are tools to represent possible future world greenhouse gas emissions. There are four RCPs. Only the most aggressive, RCP 2.6, gives a chance of keeping global average temperature rises […]