Episode 113: Max Ajl & A People’s Green New Deal

The Checkout speaks with author Max Ajl about his book, A People’s Green New Deal. This is the only book about the Green New Deal phenomenon that you should read.

Max Ajl is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for Monthly Review, Jacobin and Viewpoint. He has contributed to a number of journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of African Political Economy and Globalizations, and is an associate editor at Agrarian South & Journal of Labor and Society.

From https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/ :

'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal' - Jason Hickel

The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal?

In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative.
This book is available to download through the Open Access programme.

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Episode #113 Max Ajl Notes

:30 How did you come to write A People’s Green New Deal?

7:30 What is the history of the global south’s movements and how the Green New Deal has watered these down?

21:00 On vegan neo-colonialism.

32:00 On the links between global capital and the plant-based industry.

51:00 Can you tell us about the concept of Degrowth?