The Tragedy of the Worker

Towards the Proletarocene

The Tragedy of the Worker
China Mieville, Richard Seymour, Jamie Allinson, Rosie Warren
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h198 x 129mm - 112pg
13 Jul 2021 UK
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9781839762949
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To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren' t we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week? What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point? The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism' s death drive, the left' s complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative future - the Proletarocene - one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.
"Salvage is the most exciting journal to appear on the anglophone left over the past decade: avant-garde Marxism with no illusions, perfectly pitched to our dismal times. Here the formidable Salvage Collective tackles the defining question of those times: the ecological crisis. The result is the most beautiful and urgent essay yet written on what climate catastrophe means for the struggle for communism, in the past, present and future. This is one for the ages. " --Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline "The kind of realism we need to meet this moment: eyes wide open. Strangely poetic, as befitting a tragedy. I never want to read books about the ecological crisis twice, but this one I will return to many times, because it' s layered. Layered but legible; bold and without pretention--this is a book you can' t wait to pass along to a friend, because despite its grimness, it evokes that feeling of common cause. " --Holly Jean Buck, author of After Geoengineering
The Salvage Collective:Jamie Allinson is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Edinburgh University and author of The Age of Counter-revolution. China Mieville is the author of a number of highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including, most recently, The Last Days of New Paris. His non-fiction includes October: The History of the Russian Revolution. Richard Seymour is the author of numerous works of non-fiction including The Twittering Machine and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writing appears in the New York Times, London Review of Books, Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places, including his own Patreon. Rosie Warren is an Editor at Verso and the Editor-in-Chief of Salvage.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781839762949
Published: 13 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 112

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