Tracy Rosenthal

Visiting Scholar

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union, a frequent contributor to The New Republic, and the author, with Leonardo Vilchis, of Abolish Rent, published by Haymarket (2024). They serve on the advisory board of “Housing the Third Reconstruction” at UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy and won an Antipode Films grant for a forthcoming collaborative short. They are now on rent strike in New York City.

Participating Years

2024–2025

Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism

The existential problems of the planet are complex. Given capitalism’s obsessive growth primed by, for instance, land-grabbing, extractivism, social and economic hierarchies, and war, capitalist environmentalism leans heavily on tweaking armageddon to maintain its hold on futurity for the planet.