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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 destruction, based on the actual capacities of a given movement in a certain time and space. and if one's arguing for more militant action, they should aknowledge the violent backlash and understand the reasons why people choose and more important don't choose these tactics bc it's not easy to be militant. also his idea of "militants who pressure the state" doesn't really work - why trying to get the state to do A Ecology when it didn't work the years before, bother with militancy that aims for service and not try to connect with grassroots groups to build a better world? maybe that's just a different perspective, as i just don't really agree with him. two things that bugged me additionally are his dismissal of anarchism and his antisemitism. anarchism is esp. big in the climate movement, and anti-athoritarian and grassroots movements are the backbone of climate struggles worldwide. it's just frusttrating that critiques of the nation state are not taken seriously and the diverse range of anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas, histories and tactics are thrown under the bus. and honestly,i'm pretty done with ML dudes like him glorifiyng palestine and slipping into anti-semitism.

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, no overview of IEDs used in attacks, no hint at ecotage manuals the author would find valuable. And even if the author wanted to address merely the best ways of building this radical flank, some advice on how to organize people for the kind of action the author wants to see, like coordinated SUV destruction or regular-enough pipeline attacks to make fossil fuel an investment risks, is sorely missing. The author does talk about the more militant first wave of eco activists around 2000, noting that the hundreds of thousands of acts of property destruction and violence committed by the likes of the ELF did not yield lasting success because they failed to be flanking a larger mass movement, but gives no hands-on advice for how to do better.

I believe this is a missed chance because I'm assuming the book is targeting activists who could become more militant. But it's exactly those activists who are open to militancy that will likely already support this point. When XR was in its infancy, people were actively trying to position it as the radical flank to Fridays for Future, recognizing that XR itself would need such a flank at some point. There is no dearth of people willing to commit property damage and sabotage in the climate movement, but what's holding them back is not the lack of justification but the lack of a plan for how to do so effectively.

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 wie Leute auch das selbe sagen, aber vollkommen unterschiedliche Sachen meinen. Das Buch ist ja schon gute 30 Jahre alt, ich fände es sehr spannend zu wissen wie sich die drei verschiendenen Richtungen weiter entwickelt haben.