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Andreas Malm: How to Blow up a Pipeline (2020, Verso Books) 4 stars

Why resisting climate change means combatting the fossil fuel industry

The science on climate change …

rethinking malm

2 stars

i've read the book two months ago - initially i've been pretty convinced by it (with the exception of apporving eco-leninism) esp because i think he's generally right with the case of property destruction. however, as somebody already pointed out, he does not give any information on how to do that. additionally, while he aims to critizise overly moralistc arguments for liberal peacefulness, he's pretty moralistic himself. prperty destruction alone won't make a revolution. he also never acknowledges that the climate movement in europe already faces state repression, and in other parts of the world even more so. he doesn't ever speak of the nessecity of support systems and care structres. his focus on property destruction alone, while ignoring everything else, stinks of having patriachal hero figures in movements which undervalue care work even more (bc you know, that's liberal pacifism /sarcasm). there should be an realistic approach to property …

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Andreas Malm: How to Blow up a Pipeline (2020, Verso Books) 4 stars

Why resisting climate change means combatting the fossil fuel industry

The science on climate change …

should be titled "Why Blow Up a Pipeline"

4 stars

This is a nice book. The author gives the rundown of climate movements of the past few years, focusing on Ende Gelände, Extinction Rebellion, and Fridays for Future. He's clearly actually been part of a lot of those actions and, as far as I can tell, he gets them pretty right. The tone is hopeful all in all and the central idea – that there should be a more militant flank focused on destruction of fossil fuel emitting devices like SUVs and pipelines – is made well, in particular the clear but charitable case against ideologues of pacifism in activism.

However, and this bugs me deeply, the author does not actually answer the question posed in the title. Nowhere in the book is there any kind of guideline of tactical advice or even finger-point to resources on how to go about this. There is no map of pipelines in Europe, …

b. binaohan: decolonizing trans/gender 101 (2014, biyuti publishing) 4 stars

ending the white trans discourse

5 stars

cw: transmisia, transmisogyny

i really liked the book with it's focus on transmysogyny! tbh i'm a bit speechless, it's an incredible good book, full of complex ideas but not academic at all. i'm not sure wether i'd agree with b. that there's no transphobia against trans men and afab nonbinary folks, but rather that there's no transmisia without transmisogyny and that there are ofc big big divisions on who's affected the most by anti-trans sentiments and laws. i'd really like to dive more into the colonial history of gender.

Pia Klemp: Lass uns mit den Toten tanzen (Hardcover) 2 stars

Auf der Flucht vor Krieg und Verfolgung suchen Millionen Menschen Zuflucht in Europa. Die Abschottung …

Lass uns lieber was anderes lesen

2 stars

Das Thema Seenotrettung find ich richtig spannend und wichtig darüber zu schreiben, mich hat das BUch aber nicht so doll abgeholt. Die Seenotrettung wirkte auf mich eher wie die Kulisse für Selbstfindung und Liebesromanzen und einer Erfüllung des Traums von Freiheit. Keine Ahnung, ich hatte einfach etwas anderes erwartet. Die transfeindlichen Kommentare an 1-2 Stellen fand ich auch echt richtig mies und hat mich echt enttäuscht.

Kathy E. Ferguson: Emma Goldman (2012, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 5 stars

Emma Goldman has often been read for her colorful life story, her lively if troubled …

incredibly good

5 stars

i really really liked the book! ferguson is critical, but examines goldmans thinking in the context. i especially liked the chapter about race, and how goldman viewed race - even though she collapsed race into class and did not really think of race as a system with a history even though she condemned racist violene and took her own jewishness as a reference frame, these flaws provide opportunities for contemporary anarchists to learn from her mistakes and make it better while also learn from her insights. it's really refreshing to see somebody taking goldman serious as a political thinker and not only as a "emotional woman who thought a bit about anarchism but ehhh she doesn't have university education so she doesn't matter anyway".

Ulrike Heider: Die Narren der Freiheit (Paperback, German language, 1992, Karin Kramer Verlag) 4 stars

Ulrike Heider lebte viele Jahre in den USA und kennt sich in der politischen Landschaft, …

AnarchokapitalismusWAS

4 stars

sehr spannendes Buch das sich mit Anarchosyndikalismus, Anarchokapitalismus und Anarchoökologie auseinandersetzt. Die Autorin ist selbst Anarchistin (zumindest stand das mal wo anders...) und schreibt sehr verständlich über philisophische Zusammenhänge und persönlichen Ansichten verschiedener Anarchistinnen und "Anarchistinnen". Anarchokapitalismus sieht sie zwar selbst nicht als echten Anarchismus, aber das Kapitel war trotzdem sehr interessant weil deutlich verständlich wurde wie die Zusammenhänge zwischen Stirner, Thoreau etc aber auch Liberalen und solchen wie Nietzsche zu dem Haufen führen der sich in den USA "Libertarians" nennt, oder andere Formen von Anarchokapitalistinnen, Marktwirtschaftlerinnen etc. Besonders spannend fand ich die Vorstellung zweier Frauen nämlich Anne Wortham und Sharon Presley die nochmal andere Ansichten bzw Fokusse hatten (bei Wortham als schwarze Frau die rassenperspektive und bei Presley Feminismus und Psychoanalyse). Ich fands besonders erhellend zu sehen wie sich die Linien von Liberalismus, über Individualanarchismus zu Libertarians, Faschisten und Leuten wie Ayn Rand ziehen und …

@unsuspicious@wyrms.de achso, und ja, ne meinung hab ich nämlich: es ist kompliziert, aber das ist normal bei allen konflikten, und es ist sicher möglich eine differenzierte, aber gleichzeitig geschärfte linksradikale meinung zu haben die weder einen "both sides move" macht noch aber zu einseitig wird oder ins reaktionäre umschlägt. was das genau sein soll, puh, keine ahnung, bisher zu wenig gelesen, aber ich hoffe auf ne lösung ohne krieg, herrschaft und kapitalismus.