num_pages: 112
description: Facing irreversible climate change the planet is en route to apocalypseTo understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why arent we holding emergency meetings in every city town and village every week?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?The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalisms death drive the lefts 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. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative futurethe Proletaroceneone capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.
language: English
title: The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
publisher: Verso