It's Not Kooky to Say Anti-Capitalists Are Using Climate Change as a Pretext for a Planned Economy When They Come Out and Say It
In her 2014 book, Naomi Klein argued that the climate crisis could “form the basis of a powerful mass movement,” and this movement should set itself the following objectives: to “radically expand the commons” (i.e., state-owned property and resources) to introduce a “carefully planned economy” to “change pretty much everything about our economy” to introduce “new taxes, new public works programs” “reversals of privatizations” “extinction for the richest and most powerful industry the world has ever known—the oil and gas industry” government guidelines on “how of...