DEVS 492 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 4: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Darnell Earley, Detroit River
30 Jan 2017
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In this essay, i argue that the recent poisoning in flint, michigan, is a powerful example of both environmental racism and everyday functioning of racial capitalism. As a journal devoted to left and radical thought, i believe that cns (capitalism nature socialism) needs to adopt a more intersectional conception of capitalism in which its deeply racialized nature is fully recognized. The flint case is especially interesting because the immediate source of the problem is not a reckless emitter or a polluter cutting costs the typical drivers of environmental justice. Instead, the flint disaster is the result of the local state acting within the context of neoliberalism. Specifically, flint has been operating under austerity politics due to its abandonment by capital. The case highlights the larger historical, political, and economic context in which vulnerability, contamination, and death are produced. A central cause of the poisoning was an austerity measure imposed by the municipal emergency.
