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  • | nuclear fusion | MR Online

    Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 2, 2023 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Don’t believe the headlines: there’s much less happening than pro-fusion pundits claim.

  • | So called Primitive Accumulation | MR Online

    The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 5, 2022 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.

  • | Locals break into Richmond Park to Beat the Bounds 1751 | MR Online

    Against enclosure: The commoners fight back

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 15, 2022 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Articles in this series: Commons and classes before capitalism ‘Systematic theft of communal property’ Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back  by Ian Angus In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a […]

  • | The Dawn of Everything gets human history wrong | MR Online

    ‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 17, 2021 by Chris Knight, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

    Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.

  • | Building and clothmaking were among the largest industrial occupations in the 17th century | MR Online

    Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 12, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4

  • | Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson editors CLIMATE JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL Resistance and Grassroots Solutions Routledge 2020 | MR Online

    Stories of resistance

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 7, 2021 by Bob Spivey (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2021)

    Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.

  • | A 16th Century printing press Commonwealth views were widely disseminated in books pamphlets and broadsides | MR Online

    Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 21, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.

  • | Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity | MR Online

    ‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 12, 2021 by World Health Organization (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.

  • | 200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action | MR Online

    200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 7, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Editors urge ‘fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organized’.

  • | Tenants harvest the landlords grain | MR Online

    Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 30, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    “The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)

  • | Harvesting grain in the 1400s | MR Online

    Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 1, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    “All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)

  • | A QA on capitalism media and climate | MR Online

    Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 20, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2021)

    A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.

  • | 10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear | MR Online

    10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 23, 2021 by Simon Butler (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.

  • | Processing cod in a 16th Century Newfoundland Fishing Room | MR Online

    The fishing revolution

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 13, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Centuries before the industrial revolution, the first factories transformed seafood production.

  • | The Spanish Armada off the English Coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen ca 1620 | MR Online

    The first cod war

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on April 5, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.

  • | In the sixteenth and partly still in the seventeenth the sudden expansion of trade and the creation of a new world market had an overwhelming influence on the defeat of the old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist mode Karl Marx1 | MR Online

    Newfoundland = New found fish

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 8, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.

  • | A trawler reeling in a fishing net containig hunderds of thousands of cod fish an example of overfishing Photo Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Commodity cod & factory ships

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on February 3, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.

  • | Trump Obama and Biden | MR Online

    Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S.

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 16, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    A jokester once characterized Yale University as a hedge fund with a campus attached to it. One might say something similar of the country in which Yale is based.

  • | the Keeling Curve | MR Online

    Greenhouse gases set new record, despite COVID-19 lockdown

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on November 23, 2020 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change.

  • | John Bellamy Foster THE RETURN OF NATURE Socialism and Ecology Monthly Review Press 2020 | MR Online

    The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on November 13, 2020 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens.

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