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Climate Change and the End of Capitalism// 25.10 - 27.10 MARX 2 019 //climate change and the end of capitalism// 25.10 - 27.10 SCHEDULE AND INFORMATION SôNIA GUAJAJARA [BRA] / ANDREAS MALM [SWE] //climate change and the end of capitalism// AARON BASTANI [UK] / COSTAS LAPAVITSAS [GRC] Marx2019 will provide a meeting place for activists and researchers who take Marx and the Marxist tradition as points of departures in their organizing, writing, STEFANIA BARCA [PRT] / CHRISTOPHER SELLERS [USA] struggles and research. Following on the previous conferences of 2013 and 2016, this year’s conference focuses on the topic of Climate Change and the End of Capitalism. The program will involve dozens of panels, talks and presentations, mainly (but not exclusively) centered on the question of eco-socialism and the intersections of climate activism and Marxist thought. GÖRAN THERBORN [SWE] / KATE SOPER [UK] Warm greetings from the organizers: Centrum för Marxistiska Samhällsstudier, ABF Stockholm, Svenska Clartéförbundet, Fronesis, Transform! Europe PRACTICAL INFORMATION WHERE? ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41 in central Stockholm HOW DO I GET THERE? Subway station (T) Rådmansgatan WHEN? Friday 25th 17:30-20:00, Saturday 26th 10:00-17:30 and Sunday 27th 11:00-16:45 DO I NEED TO REGISTER? No, but you are required to pay the 100 SEK fee beforehand or upon arriving at the conference any time during the three days. WHAT LANGUAGE WILL THE SESSIONS BE IN? Mostly English, the sessions held in Swedish are highlighted in the schedule Please follow this link to purchase tickets online. Click here to find the Facebook-event where we will post updates. We ask for donations to make the conference better, stronger and for it’s work to make Do not hesistate to CONTACT US at [email protected] a difference. Swish: 1233720018 //friday pre conference talks// //the party saturday evening// Join us at RESTAURANT CIRKELN 17:30-20:00 on Between 19:00 and 00:00 on Saturday 26th we Friday 25th where we will arrange interviews, shorter talks and present celebrate with music, drinks, poetry and DJs. More details to be announced samples from the program together with some of the participants in the sessions, a few weeks before the conference. Are you an artist, DJ or do you know someone organizers and the climate movement. who should perform? Send us suggestions on [email protected] SCHEDULE: SATURDAY 26th SCHEDULE: SUNDAY 27th ZÄTA PALME SANDLER ZÄTA PALME SANDLER 10:00-10:30 Opening Aaron Bastani Egendom och Vem blir fascist? makt 11:00-12:30 Andreas Malm Reformismens Communist spirits 10:45-12:15 andra chans - the afterlives of Chinese communism Kate Soper Vad kämpar Till ideologi- klimatrörelsen för? kritikens försvar 12:45-14:15 Sônia Guajajara I: Whiteness, The Specters of 12:30-14:00 fascism, fossil fuel an Impasse Göran Therborn Rätten - kritiskt Rebellious agency 14:30-16:00 motstånd eller Costas Lapavitsas II: Whiteness, Reclaiming kapitalismens smörjmedel? 14:15-15:45 fascism, fossil fuel ideological and programmatic hegemony 16:15-16:45 Final words The enemy of Conversation: Klimatomställning 16:00-17:30 nature is not the Costas och revolution worker but Lapavitsas & capitalism Kajsa Ekis Ekman KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ANDREAS MALM is a senior lecturer in human CHRISTOPHER SELLERS is a professor of ecology at Lund University, as well as a history at Stony Brook University. His rese- prolific writer and journalist. His research arch concentrates on the history of environment and writings focus on the intersections of and health, of cities and industries, and of inequ- capitalism and climate change, as well as on the ality and democracy, with a focus on the United politics of opposing the fossil capitalist system. States and Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Ame- Amongst his works are Fossil Capital: The Rise of rican Studies from Yale and an M.D. He is the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming and author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Di- The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in sease to Environmental Health Science; Crabgrass a Warming World. His talk will concern ways to Crucible: Suburban Nature and Environmentalism escalate the struggle against climate change, and in Twentieth-Century America and co-editor of, the possibilities of direct action and sabotage. among other edited volumes, Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World . SôNIA GUAJAJARA is an environmental and STEFANIA BARCA is a senior researcher at indigenous activist, and the executive coor- the University of Coimbra. dinator of Brazil’s indigenous movement, She holds a PhD in Economic History and has been a visiting Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil, as scholar at Yale University, postdoctoral fellow at well as the former vice-presidential candidate of UC Berkeley, and guest professor at Lund Uni- Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party. Guajajara is versity. In the past ten years, she has published a leading voice advocating the protection of the widely on the political ecology of industrial ca- Amazon rainforest and indigenous land rights pitalism, with focus on labour and environmen- against president Bolsonaro’s plans to open up tal politics, socialist ecofeminism, environmental reservations to mining and commercial farming. justice, degrowth; she has recently co-edited the Her talk will be followed by a conversation with book collection Towards the Political Economy of Patricia Lorenzoni. Degrowth. She is actively contributing to shaping a Green New Deal policy proposal in Europe. COSTAS LAPAVITSAS is a professor of Eco- GÖRAN THERBORN is a professor emeritus nomics at the School of Oriental and African of sociology at Cambridge University and is Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is amongst the most highly cited contempora- an expert on the relationships between financial ry Marxian-influenced sociologists. He has systems and development. Based on his expertise published widely in journals such as the New in these fields he is a critic of the current capita- Left Review, and is notable for his writing on list system. Lapavitsas also criticizes the political topics that fall within the general political and and economic role played by the European Uni- sociological framework of post-Marxism. Topics on in upholding the principles and foundations on which he has written extensively include the of this system. His presentation at Marx2019 intersection between the class structure of society will highlight the continuing relevance of a Left and the function of the state apparatus, the for- criticism of the European Union. mation of ideology within subjects, and the futu- re of the Marxist tradition. SESSIONS AARON BASTANI is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media and has a doctorate SATURDAY 26.10 from the University of London. His research interests include new media, social movements Period 1 10:45-12:15 and political economy. He has written for Vice, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and [ZÄTA] Andreas Malm is a senior lecturer in human ecology at Lund University, as well as a the New York Times and regularly appears on prolific writer and journalist. His research and writings focus on the intersections of capital- the BBC and Sky News. In his new book, Fully ism and climate change, as well as on the politics of opposing the fossil capitalist system. Automated Luxury Communism, Bastani conju- Amongst his works are Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power, the Roots of Global Warming res a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how and The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. His talk will concern we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 ways to escalate the struggle against climate change, and the possibilities of direct action and billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of sabotage. biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a [PALME] Klimatkrisen – reformismens andra chans? society merely heralds the real beginning of his- Om löntagarfondsfrågans aktualitet tory. His talk will be followed by a conversation För ett sekel sedan, med införandet av den politiska demokratin, intensifierades diskussionen with Aron Etzler, party secretary of the Left Par- om möjligheterna att utveckla en reformistisk, samhällsomdanande strategi som syftade ty in Sweden. till att överskrida kapitalismen och bana väg för socialismen. Demokratin uppfattades då som det instrument som stod arbetarklassen till buds i strävan efter en socialistisk samhälls- omvandling. Kapitalismen skulle bli sin egen dödgrävare genom att göra arbetarklassen till en majoritet i samhället som på demokratisk väg kunde genomföra den eftersträvade KATE SOPER is a British emeritus profes- samhällsomvandlingen. Nu, hundra år senare, är denna reformistiska politiska strategi död sor of philosophy, currently at University och begraven, i Sverige symboliserat av misslyckandet på 1970-talet att genomföra den of Brighton. Her work has focused on femi- ekonomiska demokratin i form av förslaget till kollektiv kapitalbildning genom löntagar- nism, the environment and theories of need and fonder. Men idag har löntagarfondsfrågan aktualiserats på nytt inom vänstern i USA, Norge consumption. Her most important works include och Storbritannien. Innebär det ett försök att väcka liv i en traditionell reformistisk strategi What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Hu- eller utveckla en ny? Och kan löntagarfonder och, bredare, ekonomisk demokrati erbjuda ett man and The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming instrument för att förhindra att kapitalismen löper akut
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