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Martin Empson

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Martin Empson is based in Manchester, in the UK and is a long standing socialist and environmental activist.

His latest book is The Time of the Harvest has Come!: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' War, published for the 500th anniversary of the great central European uprising, and placing it in the context of the rise of capitalism and the Reformation.

In 2019 Martin edited the book "System Change not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis". It was a collection of essays on the environment by Marxists from around the world including Kohei Saito, Ian Angus, Michelle Robidoux, Camilla Royle, Ian Rappel and Amy Leather.

His book "Kill All the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside ...more

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	System Change not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis by Martin Empson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian Angus (Contributor), Carolyn Egan (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History 4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Kill All the Gentlemen': Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marxism and Ecology: Capitalism, socialism and the future of the planet 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Socialism or Extinction 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time of the Harvest has Come: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' War 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is not the Answer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone.”
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“For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.”
― Alex Callinicos, Revolutionary Road to Socialism

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“Economic crises breed war.”
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“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

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