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Max Ajl

Max Ajl is a doctoral student in Development Sociology at Cornell University. He currently is based in Tunis, where he is doing his dissertation research on state agricultural development policy and the politics of price fixing during the era of state-directed development and the transition to capitalist agriculture in the countryside. His fields of expertise include comparative international development, political economy of social change, world-systems theory, Middle East political economy, and rural political economy. His academic writing has been published in many venues, including Historical Materialism, MERIP, and the Journal of Palestine Studies. He has presented at universities in Tunisia and across North America, including at Cornell, Columbia, and the University of California – Berkeley. He co-edits the Palestine page at Jadaliyya.

Topics of Interest:Rural Sociology, World-Systems Theory, Political Economy, Historical Sociology, Agrarian Change, the Politics of the Global Food System, Ecological Economics, Development Theory, Colonialism, US Foreign PolicyCountries/Regions of Interest:Tunisia, Israel/Palestine, the United States

Book Summary

Max Ajl – ‘A People’s Green New Deal’. The idea of a Green New Deal 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 book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, their ideological underpinnings, and their limitations. Ajl goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a ‘People’s Green New Deal’ committed to decommodification, working-class power, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology.

Apperances

Millenials are killing capitalism

Video -GREEN NEW DEAL: Max Ajl and Kali Akuno

Video - Only Anti-Imperialism Can Save Us From Climate Catastrophe, With Max Ajl

Other Writings

Monthly Review

AMA Session is over, thank you everyone who participated and left preparatory questions. Thank you, once again to, Max Ajl for coming on and answering our questions.

I hope this was an insightful and educational session. Ya'll have a great weekend <3 to all comrades!

  • Invidiarum [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    For non-colonized people in the core: fight for non-commodified “greening” and resilience of the public infrastructure: public transportation should be basically free, and upgraded and use renewable energy, utilities should be publicly owned, green spaces should be public, built everywhere for flood abatement. Once public ownership is in place locally or municipally, we will be in a better position to shift the forms of technology that are in use. All organizing should look locally and internationally at the same time, in other words while we focus on “economic-ecological” demands for decommodified green reconstruction locally, we need to be demanding/support national sovereignty in the periphery, Indigenous liberation, demilitarization, and climate debt, which means raising consciousness about those demands and struggles within local organizing.

    Are there any initiatives or movements you can recommend to get involved with / use as rolemodels regarding this?

    • MaxA [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think Cooperation Jackson did a lot of work people should learn from; some of the Red Nations work here has been very important. I also am sympathetic to a lot of the line struggle going on in DSA over these issues. But I don't really live in the US so I may not be as attuned as others to the good work going on in a lot of places. My sense is that there is a real struggle to look locally and internationally simultaneously.

      • Invidiarum [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Thanks! If you know of some good orgs in the eu, feel free to give them a callout as well