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We are living through the sixth mass extinction. Capitalism, the essential driver of carbon emissions, is reaching its inevitably brutal endgame: techno-feudalism. Not only are we facing a climate emergency – we need to prepare for climate revolution.
In a series of reports from the front lines, philosopher-journalist Todd Dufresne provides an urgent analysis of the knowledge and morals that are fuelling this revolution. His manifesto outlines the links between Western values, capitalism, and climate change, rejecting the “pathology of politeness” afflicting mainstream climate activism and warning that the systemic violence of post-capitalist society will be met with violence. Dufresne champions the radical critics of capitalism whose ideas, courage, and exuberant energy have the power to forestall the social murder of humanity in service of short-term profits for a tiny, irredeemable elite.
A fearless – and fearsome – account of the world-historical social and material conditions confronting us, The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight is a call to support utopic realism: a vision that embraces empathy, freedom, community, and universal human rights. It lays out what may be the only path to a world worth living in: left populism.
“This is not a book of despair but a manifesto for utopian realism: a demand that we reclaim freedom, equality, and justice from a system built on profit and violence. The message is clear – the future will be won only by those who fight.” Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
“Although utopic realism may sound far-fetched when discussed at a dinner party, Dufresne goes to great length to demonstrate how its opposite, our current economy based on perpetual growth at unsustainable rates is the real fantasy. It is a Ponzi scheme, as Dufresne points out, and sooner rather than later, humanity will have to pay the piper.” Miramachi Reader
“Sharp and political, opinionated yet accessible. Dufresne doesn't sugarcoat the catastrophic impacts of climate change; instead, he speaks directly to an audience that is already engaged and hungry to act... For reader ready to fight, Dufresne makes the ideal feel inevitable.” The Walleye
“Dufresne has taken it upon himself to wake us up. He provides a series of five journalistic reports as snapshots of climate change. These are not summaries of existing data, though there is plenty of that; they are careful, urgent calls to examine the systems of thinking and political-economic functioning that have brought us to the brink. They are like pieces of evidence, building the case that saving the “unborn future” will require a fight — and not a metaphorical one... The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight is a trenchant, highly readable introduction to the philosophic and economic conditions that have given rise to climate catastrophe.” Literary Review of Canada