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Jun 2023
1h 28m

Fighting Capitalism's Ecological Death C...

Haymarket Books
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Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of climate catastrophe and the challenges in confronting the state and market behind the disaster. Climate catastrophe is intensifying at an alarming pace. Capital and governments clearly have no intention of stopping it; for them, free markets, private property rights, and accumulation remain sacrosanct, even if that m ... Show More
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