sharing this for discussion, i have not read the book or seen the movie

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I honestly don't remember the India part of the book. And I do agree that he focuses a lot on sabotage of luxury vehicles in Sweden - but -- he is Swedish. Of course he's going to talk about local things. Plus those were really only as an example of the idea of sabotaging things that hurt the rich more than the poor.

    I do agree that the ultimate premise of - make the market and investment untenable by proving that things will be smashed - isn't necessarily the best. It is a market solution, ultimately, but I'm not going to count on Malm to outline a pathway direct to communism in his 150 page manifesto.

    To me, the biggest takeaways from the book was the look at what conditions do movements achieve where violence and sabotage are "palatable" and acceptable, and what is it about the environmental movement that hasn't got there yet. That and coming to the conclusion that the sabotage wing of a movement has to be complementary and separate from the also useful non violent wing (and also from the political wing).

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      And I do agree that he focuses a lot on sabotage of luxury vehicles in Sweden - but – he is Swedish. Of course he’s going to talk about local things.

      Well destroying critical infrastructure for fossil fuels is a local scandinavian thing now, duh.