Against the Crisis

Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden. He is a member of two research collectives: the Zetkin Collective (ecosocialist group working on political ecologies of the far right) published White Skin, Black Fuel on Verso in 2021 and Fundament (a housing research collective) published Kris i Bostadsfrågan on Daidalos in 2023. This is his first monograph in English.

Preface

Introduction: Crises Are Not Opportunities - They Are the Enemy

1 When the Economy Is Not Healthy...
Economic Crisis
A Century of Crises: In Theory and Reality
Solving a Crisis/Crisis as Solution
2 An Infected Wound
Ecological Crisis
Anthropocene: Th e Crisis of Man?
Not Solving the Climate Crisis
3 Rooted in Capitalism
Five Levels of Abstraction
To Shake and to Stabilise
4 The Class Character of Crises
Losing, Winning and Causing Crises
Crises Are Caused by One Class, but Another
Must Pay the Price
No One Is Punished, but Murder It Remains
5 Creating Crises in Its Image
6 Our Crisis Is Now
The Useless Decade
The Corona Crisis as Social Paroxysm
The Crisis of Neoliberalism, or: Thoughts on How the Crisis Reproduces Capitalism This Time
Epilogue: Optimism at the Edge of a Cliff
Ten Thoughts on Socialist Crisis Policy

Index