#books
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19976_rethinking-marxist-approaches-to-transition-a-theory-of-temporal-dislocation-by-onur-acaroglu-reviewed-by-davide-gallo-lassere/
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20033_how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-learning-to-fight-in-a-world-on-fire-by-andreas-malm-reviewed-by-john-rapko/
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20088_work-without-the-worker-labour-in-the-age-of-platform-capitalism-by-phil-jones-reviewed-by-katjo-buissink/
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19976_rethinking-marxist-approaches-to-transition-a-theory-of-temporal-dislocation-by-onur-acaroglu-reviewed-by-davide-gallo-lassere/
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20033_how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-learning-to-fight-in-a-world-on-fire-by-andreas-malm-reviewed-by-john-rapko/
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20088_work-without-the-worker-labour-in-the-age-of-platform-capitalism-by-phil-jones-reviewed-by-katjo-buissink/
marxandphilosophy.org.uk
‘Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation’ by Onur Acaroglu reviewed by Davide Gallo Lassere
Onur Acaroglu’s rich and dense book on the issue of transition offers a close engagement with the history of Western…
Global military spending has reached its highest level since 1949
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/25/military-spending-reaches-record-levels-report
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/25/military-spending-reaches-record-levels-report
Aljazeera
World military spending hits all-time high, tops $2 trillion
The US, China, India, UK and Russia were the top five spenders, according to new data by defence think tank SIPRI.
The Global Seafood Supply Is Being Contaminated by Microplastics, but No Major News Outlet Has Paid Any Attention
https://independentmediainstitute.org/efl-tat-20220301/
https://independentmediainstitute.org/efl-tat-20220301/
"The Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940s decided to launch what became known as the Green Revolution. It entailed the application of capital, machinery, chemicals, irrigation, consolidation of small farms, and migration to overcrowded cities, and it caused the destruction of “an agricultural system around which village life and livelihoods had revolved for thousands of years,”
The Foundation leaders ignored repeated warnings, including those by University of California geographer Carl Sauer about overlooking the possibility “that native practices represent real solutions to local problems.” As it turned out, Sauer was right. The results of the Green Revolution have been a social, cultural, political, and ecological disaster."
"One wonders, then, what great problems have been solved by philanthrocapitalism? After all the hype, the record—at best—is mixed. Most of what’s grown by brute-force agriculture goes to feed the wealthy, often at the expense of people on the land, tropical forests, and biological diversity. “What to make of the fact that growing philanthropy and growing inequality seem to go hand in hand?” Linsey McGoey asks in No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy. Increasingly, philanthropy, she notes, deprives treasuries of tax revenues that could otherwise be better spent to help the poor. And who holds the Bill Gateses of the world accountable?"
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2022/02/16/philanthropy-capitalism-climate-democracy
The Foundation leaders ignored repeated warnings, including those by University of California geographer Carl Sauer about overlooking the possibility “that native practices represent real solutions to local problems.” As it turned out, Sauer was right. The results of the Green Revolution have been a social, cultural, political, and ecological disaster."
"One wonders, then, what great problems have been solved by philanthrocapitalism? After all the hype, the record—at best—is mixed. Most of what’s grown by brute-force agriculture goes to feed the wealthy, often at the expense of people on the land, tropical forests, and biological diversity. “What to make of the fact that growing philanthropy and growing inequality seem to go hand in hand?” Linsey McGoey asks in No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy. Increasingly, philanthropy, she notes, deprives treasuries of tax revenues that could otherwise be better spent to help the poor. And who holds the Bill Gateses of the world accountable?"
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2022/02/16/philanthropy-capitalism-climate-democracy
Yes!
The Disaster of Philanthropy and Capitalism
Philanthrocapitalism enables the destruction of nature and the erosion of democracy.
Just an update: due to exams coming up, I'll take a break this month.