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Polluted Tools offers a controversial intervention at the thorny intersection between new materialist and libertarian approaches. Despite a common project of challenging European philosophical and social classifications and hierarchies, these discourses are seen as incompatible. New materialism, in particular, has been accused of adopting a white vision of the human while ignoring the racist connotations of the concept of “non-human.” The book traces this conflict back to an earlier meeting point between new materialist and libertarian projects, which arose through the empirical combination of the ideas of Marx and Nietzsche. This combination, which was politically controversial, was used to fight fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, but it quickly lost its political character, leading to tensions that have not been addressed to this day. While the book does not call for a revival of this early “new materialism,” it does place its strategies in dialogue with new materialism and contemporary libertarian approaches to developing greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis.