Preface to Bulletin No. 4

Ecology and economy
Honestly, anyone who hasn’t felt at least a tinge of secret joy at the unplanned production stop at Tesla must be very deep in some kind of propaganda swamp. Either in the labour-fetish-socialist one à la Jacobin, or in the electro-green one, who would rather not look into the depths of a lithium mine as long as the CO-2 balance is still right. In any case, one thing seems even more remarkable to us than the quantity of damage, namely the quality of the depth and uncompromising nature of the attack and the published statement. It is not about negotiating with anyone about the expansion of production capacities or environmental regulations and therefore it does not need “pressure from the streets” or the visualization of movement demands, which seems to be the main political content of climate activism in Germany and internationally. It’s about destroying what destroys us. So simple and so difficult. We don’t believe that theory can replace practice. But we do believe that a theory is needed that is just as radical, profound and uncompromising. In order to dig deeper than the surface of green Tesla capitalism, we need to engage with the concept of ecology. (continue reading in Bulletin 4 (pdf))

For further reading we recommend:
„Age of ecology. or: how this world will not end“ (Short version in english can be found here: https://inferno.noblogs.org/),
Achim Szepanski lecture on „Capitalism in Times of Catastrophe (https://non.copyriot.com/capitalism-in-times-of-catastrophe-lecture/),
On capitalogenic climate crisis: unthinking Man, Nature and the anthropocene, and why it matters for planetary justice by Jason W. Moore (https://jasonwmoore.com/academicpapers/) and The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe by Alexander Dunlap (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122003197)