Wednesday, July 8, 2020

‘Either you are fighting to eliminate exploitation or not’: A leftist critique of the Green New Deal — James Wilt interviews Max Ajl

But there has been growing criticism from some parts of the left of the proposed Green New Deal, particularly relating to its potential impacts on the Global South and undefined relationship with capitalism. There is no singular Green New Deal that exists–with plenty of debate among supporters of it–but it is possible to speak about the most popular version of it as proposed by the likes of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders.
It’s a vision that scholar and author Max Ajl is deeply concerned about. Ajl is an associated researcher at the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and writes on rural development, especially in the Arab region. His book, A People’s Green New Deal, is forthcoming from Pluto Press in 2021.
His critiques of the Green New Deal are careful and productive, grounded in disciplines of agro-ecology and food sovereignty, seeking to leverage existing interest in the proposal into something far more liberatory and internationalist....
Canadian Dimension
‘Either you are fighting to eliminate exploitation or not’: A leftist critique of the Green New Deal
James Wilt interviews Max Ajl

1 comment:

Peter Pan said...

The GND is nowhere to be found on the radar of US/Canadian politics.
The framework that had been laid out last winter by AOC et al., is focused on domestic initiatives. That proposal wasn't intended as a template for the rest of the world to follow.