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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!
@MaxA I think these are my last two questions:
Lastly, I wanted to say on behalf of the Hexbear community and myself, thank you for giving us some of your time to answer these questions. It means a lot to us, we are a fairly small community but we try to be devoted to the cause and learn about building a better world. So a million thank yous for doing this!
I think the most important is to read a lot, whether in formal academic structures or probably more beneficially, otherwise, and read material from the third world, especially stuff from the 60s-80s, before the intellectual apparatus was placed under neo-liberal siege. from there any of us can figure out how to make our contribution from the knowledge we have.
there is a huge shaming in the US but really in most of the world about any kind of manual labor, I think educational systems need to work against that, while also enfolding ecological thinking in the "trades" (which after all require a huge amount of knowledge in the first place, and could involve even more knowledge the more ecological concerns are braided into the skilling process)
my pleasure!