How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm
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Capitalism
Climate
Direct Action
Ecology
Resource Extraction
Revolution
Society
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Property will cost us the earth.
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven’t we moved beyond peaceful protest?
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop–with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.
Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred, from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement against apartheid and for women’s suffrage, Malm argues that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire.
This audio edition of How to Blow Up a Pipeline is skillfully narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible listener favorite.
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| Comment: | Property will cost us the earth.
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven’t we moved beyond peaceful protest? In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop–with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines. Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred, from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement against apartheid and for women’s suffrage, Malm argues that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire. This audio edition of How to Blow Up a Pipeline is skillfully narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible listener favorite. |
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This post has 25 comments with rating of 4.6/5
December 20th, 2022
This book promotes terrorism.
December 20th, 2022
So should we take this as a tacit endorsement of terrorism? I would hate to think that instead of just being an i d 10 t, you are a dangerous i d 10 t.
December 20th, 2022
But is still more legal than Hitler in most of Europe.
The reason normally given for taking down the Hitler stuff, apart from the fact that its utterly inane (which it is but that’s not a good reason for censorship) is that it makes the site even more of a target than it otherwise would be in countries like Germany. No one cares about terrorism or calls to terrorism like Germany cares about Hitler stuff, so this book doesn’t really represent a threat to the site. I’m not an admin, they’ll do what they want, but the argument for censorship with the Hitler stuff really isn’t there for this.
December 20th, 2022
For reference, this is how germany feels about hitler stuff: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-antisemitic-hate-speech-nazi-propaganda-holocaust-denial/
Of particular note is that they’ll jail anyone for three years just for liking Hitler. Not doing anything, not marching in support of Hitler or dressing like Hitler but just for saying “Yeah kinda” when asked if they approved of him. Normally countries required action, rather than opinions, before jailing people. Not so in a lot of Europe but especially not in Germany.
December 20th, 2022
I prefer “tools for revolution” ahead of terrorism, especially when you’re blowing up a pipe and not a Federal Building. Better to know how than not and I’ll note the similarities with the right to short sleeved shirts. Or would some argue that if they do it it’s terrorism but if we do it it’s protecting our rights to overthrow gummint when they overreach?
Time to listen to iNsuRge’s track Political Prisoners again and feel like I’m an activist and not just a hypocrite “struggling” on a six-figure salary.
December 20th, 2022
@rimwolf2 @rivatej428 Shut up nerds.
December 20th, 2022
If any of you doughnuts had bothered to look inside this book, you would know that Malm categorically DOES NOT promote terrorism, he constructs a nuanced argument about strategic direct action against property. Ironically, one of you even uses the phrase “i would hate to think”, thanks for demonstrating your sincerity in that regard.
December 20th, 2022
So… strategic direct action against property is terrorism. It is also being a revolutionary or freedom fighter. Really depends if you agree with the goals of the actors or not. The French resistance were terrorists to the Nazis and proud of it.
For reference, here’s a definition of terrorism from webster’s dictionary: “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”
Destroying private property, which is mostly owned by civilians, in order to force political change would qualify as a form of intimidation and, since not done under color of law, is therefore terrorism.
Whether its right or not, needed or not is outside the things I’ll express an opinion on, but the label of terrorism is accurate. Still don’t think its appropriate to censor this. We’re pirates and thieves, if its not a direct threat to the site’s existence, then moralistic hand wringing about this or that topic is a bit absurd from any of us.
December 20th, 2022
“It does not promote terrorism - instead it promotes nuanced terrorism.” Turns out that this is not the most sophisticated argument.
You can phone in bomb warnings to your terrorist-heart’s content, but human beings are still foreseeable (& actual) victims of property terrorism. If the author genuinely analysed history, he would be able to honestly admit that.
Logic is, like, so hella kool.
December 20th, 2022
Not advocating this, but actions like blowing up a pipeline are ecotage, not terrorism.
Assuming they don’t murder anyone in the process.
Terrorism creates fear, the idea here is to damage property, to add an economic cost to fossil fuel.
An extension of the actions by some climate activists like blocking traffic.
December 20th, 2022
Good on ‘em, I say….
December 20th, 2022
Bombings & explosions are indiscriminate & not absolutely controllable, by their very nature. For the terrorist bomber, who is likely not an explosives expert, they involve intentionally committing to a chain of causation which may potentially result in death or serious harm.
Human beings remain foreseeable (& actual) victims of such property terrorism. Bomb warnings (if they even occur) are entirely uncertain in their consequences. Areas can be cleared of registered personnel - but not necessarily all people. Coming from an island which has experienced such acts of “property” terrorism, I can assure others that peaceful, democratic action is preferable, in all instances.
And “Good on ‘em, I say” says the barbarian as bodies are shoveled into bags. That’s the revealed mindset.
December 20th, 2022
Well, you’d better give the Palestinians some laser guided missiles then, or it’s going to be ‘best effort’ from heroin - as is their internationally protected right to resist occupation.
So, you pick.
December 21st, 2022
@caesar963 : you’re assuming indiscriminate violence is the aim.
There have been protests at pipelines, and the only violence has been from police and others trying to stop the protests.
Anyway, I think destructive actions are not a good idea, they are too easy for people like you to spin to delegitimise the entire idea of changing how we use energy and make it about “letting the terrorists win”.
No matter how peaceful protests are, that’s what they do now.
December 21st, 2022
Clearly not. I explicitly said “bombings & explosions are indiscriminate & not absolutely controllable, by their very nature.”
Intent/aim is bound up with reasonably foreseeable outcome, & the scope of the harm committed to (incl possible victims). It’s all above.
In addition, escalation is automatically baked in.
I’ll opt for the optimum interp & assume “people like me” are those who know something of (state & private) terrorism, & realise how sleazy & grim it is. Also, how it fails due its counterproductive nature.
Let’s not expediently spin the idea that the people who reasonably disapprove of all violent terror - or the victims of violent terror - are somehow the real problem.
Sooner or later, even the people who “think” that bombing is edgy & cool (provided they don’t Darwin themselves out) must acknowledge that not causing harm, and choosing non-violent, democratic action is the only sane approach.
December 21st, 2022
FreePalestine - Who mentioned the Middle East? Anybody who’s killing people over there - over the entirety of the Middle East, incidentally - is in the wrong, and I would condemn all such terrorism.
Can you honestly say the same, or do you just cheer for your sleazy terror gang?
As I said, it’s counterproductive, and only serves to irrationally defer a real solution. That real solution is of course based around non-violence.
On the other upload, you think that reality (manifested by Brit current affairs) is somehow fundamentally a “f**thy Zionist” plot against you. Sanity, or your view - you pick.
December 21st, 2022
A lot of people who justify ‘proportionate response’ in a purely militaristic capacity do so with the explicit aim of excluding those who practice, out of necessity asymmetric tactics due to their limited resources and means. This would, by your logic, preclude them from resisting occupation or attacks by armed means, a typical scoundrels way of favouring the colonial occupies with their ‘hi-tech’ military machines whilst washing their hands of taking a overt political position. We see this trick, don’t you worry. Lucky that most right-minded people appreciate that might does not equal right and so the ‘inaccuracy’ of these improvised devices / Hamas rockets is just part of the price one pays for occupation. So again, either provide parity of arms to all sides or accept that better weapons don’t make a cause Just.
December 21st, 2022
You’re not using the phrase “asymmetric tactics” as a euphemism for murdering children on school buses, are you?
In the final analysis, Jewish people & Palestinians must learn to live together. That’s the only sane prescription. This is equally true in Northern Ireland. There’s no point in Irish Catholics trying to murder all British Protestants merely because they are perceived as colonial occupiers. They live here in Ireland now. We must all live together.
That’s not a “scoundrel” saying that, that’s a human being with a functioning brain. That’s what John Hume said, & all intelligent representatives. None of them scoundrels - none of them supporters of British imperialism.
Only sleazy people cheerlead for violence; support the poisoning of young people’s minds with hatred; & then the consequent wasting of those young lives.
Violent terror is entirely counterproductive. That means that not only does it not work, it actively makes everything worse.
The corollary of accepting the legitimacy of violence is that you endorse the legitimacy of all violence - both for & against a cause.
Did “might make right” when the Jewish people’s ancient homeland was brutally invaded & occupied by the Arabs? Or when Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem & Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, supported the national socialist cause & the Holocaust? (As another justifier of the unjustifiable like yourself told me here, it was perfectly reasonable for the Palestinians to seek the support of such “powerful allies.”)
Finally put resources into education instead of stupid weapons & violence. That’s what we did.
December 21st, 2022
Well… some state entity managed to BLOW UP two of the most expensive and strategic natural gas pipelines in the world– Nordstream I and Nordstream II and apparently get away with it. (Most doubt it was Russia and strangely no US or NATO report or even investigation has been carried out). Of course MOST of the PAIN will be felt by the poor, the elderly, those on fixed incomes, etc. No matter how many windmills you build in the North Sea.
December 22nd, 2022
Touché!
December 22nd, 2022
Very gracious & mature of you to acknowledge the strikes.
December 22nd, 2022
Can’t not acknowledge count marco’s hit there.
December 22nd, 2022
Appreciate the acknowledgement in seq; although it was a series of devastating strikes, not just 1. Always happy to explain.
December 23rd, 2022
Awesome
May 7th, 2023
Based
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