{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-the-worker-isbn-9781839762949","title":"The Tragedy of the Worker","description":"\u003cb\u003eFacing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren’t we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Tragedy of the Worker\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism’s death drive, the left’s complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of the Worker\u003c\/i\u003e demands an alternative future—the Proletarocene—one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.“\u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e is the most exciting journal to appear on the anglophone left over the past decade: avant-garde Marxism with no illusions, perfectly pitched to our dismal times. Here the formidable Salvage Collective tackles the defining question of those times: the ecological crisis. The result is the most beautiful and urgent essay yet written on what climate catastrophe means for the struggle for communism, in the past, present and future. This is one for the ages.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Andreas Malm, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The kind of realism we need to meet this moment: eyes wide open. Strangely poetic, as befitting a tragedy. I never want to read books about the ecological crisis twice, but this one I will return to many times, because it’s layered. Layered but legible; bold and without pretention—this is a book you can’t wait to pass along to a friend, because despite its grimness, it evokes that feeling of common cause.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Holly Jean Buck, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Geoengineering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A book that ought to be essential reading for all … detailed, convincing and critically important.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andy Hedgecock, \u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe authors are collectively the editors of \u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Allinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Edinburgh University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Counter-revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChina Miéville\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a number of highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of New Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. His non-fiction includes \u003ci\u003eOctober: The History of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous works of non-fiction, most recently The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, and innumerable other places, including his own Patreon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Rosie Warren\u003c\/b\u003e is an Editor at Verso and the Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300060582117,"sku":"NP9781839762949","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839762949.jpg?v=1767741885","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-tragedy-of-the-worker-isbn-9781839762949","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}