#91 Corona, climate, chronic emergency w/ Andreas Malm

Andreas Malm joins me to talk about his new book, 'Corona, Climate,
Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century'. We
talked about why in the case of Covid19 most of the rich countries
of the north were able to make the kinds of decisive interventions
that seem to elude them when it comes to climate change. And we
also talked about the experience of the Bolsheviks during the
Russian civil war, and why war communism is a better model for the
kind of mobilisation needed in the climate crisis than the usual
invocation of the ramping of up of industrial production by the
Western allies during WWII.