{"id":2601,"date":"2022-07-30T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T09:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:45:40","slug":"review-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century-by-andreas-malm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century-by-andreas-malm\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, by Andreas Malm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This short book is a brilliant book. Many of the books I read are quite predictable, and that is one of the reasons why I read them. If I read a thriller or crime fiction, I have certain expectations.  The same when I read history. But this book &#8212; well, I guess I didn&#8217;t have expectations.  Malm wrote the book in the first weeks of the global lock-down in the spring of 2020 and was clearly influenced by what he saw.  In a nutshell, the book argues that the climate crisis and the pandemic are the same crisis, and that the cause of both is &#8212; capital.  At one point, he even builds a convincing argument that capital itself can be viewed as a virus.  The &#8216;war communism&#8217; bit put me off, but Malm makes it clear that he&#8217;s not an advocate of the Leninist-Stalinist regime that emerged from the period of Russian history.  But he believes strongly in the need for serious government intervention to deal with the &#8216;chronic emergency&#8217; that is currently manifesting as climate crisis and pandemic.  People who won&#8217;t wear masks or take the vaccines, or who believe that the climate emergency is a hoax, will hate this book.  For the rest of us, I&#8217;d call it compulsory reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short book is a brilliant book. Many of the books I read are quite predictable, and that is one of the reasons why I read them. If I read a thriller or crime fiction,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}