{"product_id":"socialism-or-extinction-ted-reese-9798554968730","title":"Socialism or Extinction: Climate, Automation and War in the Final Capitalist Breakdown","description":"\"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment.\" - Stephen Radecki, The Swoletariat \/\/ \"Gripping from start to finish.\" - Mathew Bartlett, Goodreads \/\/ Socialism or Extinction: Climate, Automation and War in the Final Capitalist Breakdown is a systematic Marxist analysis of the unprecedented crises engulfing humanity, arguing that: - capitalism per se - because its ever-growing dependence on exploiting labour makes the labour-intensity of extraction-based production increasingly necessary - is the cause of and can only continue to accelerate the climate crisis; - the solution to the climate crisis requires value creation to become based on utility instead of exploitation and profit, thereby ending the absolute economic dependence on extraction and enabling a transition to production based predominantly on nuclear, mycelium, hemp and other fibrous plants - a green industrial revolution that is actually green; - automation is eliminating the sole source of profit - capital's exploitation of commodity-producing human labour - meaning capitalism is heading unavoidably, in purely economic terms, towards a final, insurmountable economic breakdown; - socialism (the lower stage of communism) - the social ownership of production; a (digital) voucher system pegged to labour time; and central planning of utility- (as opposed to commodity-) production, on a break-even basis - is therefore becoming an economic necessity *for the first time*; - the accumulation crisis is forcing the world's imperialist powers into direct confrontation, meaning humanity faces not one extinction threat, but two. Humanity stands at a world-historic crossroads.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ted Reese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8554968735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798554968730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.80d","brand":"Ted Reese","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993093177599,"sku":"9798554968730","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dcc24407-f502-410d-9674-db2ac7fd2bcf.jpg?v=1683322486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/socialism-or-extinction-ted-reese-9798554968730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}