"Twenty-first-century tech elites may not even know of the old technocracy movement, but have revived many of its ideas. Gone are the pomp and spectacle of rallies, however, since popular persuasion is no longer needed."

For those interested in value theory and the critique of political ecology: This new article by André Novas Otero shows how rent can only be understood in terms of its double basis (natural difference and class power), and how this double basis helps explain the persistence of uneven development.

“Much ecological politics focuses on a kind of localism – localizing food systems, reuniting communities with ecologies – but clearly that is not what is required. The crisis is global and requires a restructuring of production at the planetary scale, at the level of the species."

On the decline of process knowledge and its significance: "The point is not to romanticize traditional working-class occupations. But in the frenzy of digitalization, both right and left have forgotten that software presupposes hardware ... modern human life presupposes building and manufacturing."

Tunisian Unions Reveal the Real Cost of Private Solar Energy in Tunisia - and Why Public Solar is a Better Option New research paper shows public solar would be far less expensive than the current approach, which privileges IPPs at excessive costs to the Tunisian people tinyurl.com/TUED-B169

"For us, flourishing is inseparable from the transformation of the technical and social means by which we reproduce our lives." "Hegel helps us see that work like Saito’s is premised on a false dichotomy—the choice is not between growth and degrowth but capital growth and rational growth."

Samtidigt som USA blir allt mer auktoritärt blir vi mer beroende av deras energi. Ja Sveriges _elsystem_ är fossilfritt - men inte industrin och transporterna. I 2024 lade Sverige ✨205 miljarder kronor✨ på att importera fossil energi. Kunde lagts på annat

"In 2009, the proposition that Reza Pahlavi might constitute a political alternative to the Islamic Republic would have been widely dismissed... This shift tells us less about the intrinsic strength of monarchism than about the erosion of alternative pathways for political transformation..."

As the imperialist confrontation between the US and the EU intensifies, the next major advance in Chinese capitalism is quietly underway. More powerful wind turbines mean less reliance on foreign fuel imports and a growing Chinese edge over Europe in the export of wind power technology.

Matt Huber against the dour, anti-political degrowthism of the contemporary Left "...if we struggle, and wrestle control of production away from the depredations of capital, there is nothing we can’t do. An energy transition is not only possible; it’s only the beginning of what we can accomplish."

"The transformation of America in the past 30 years into an 'hour glass' society, leaving only yuppies and the homeless in cities like Manhattan and devastating the life conditions of the urban working class and marginal Bohemia, is a major factor in the decline of reading." - Loren Goldner, in 1995

Preliminary proofs are in......

I've been rereading this excellent piece today - it sheds light on so many of the vital debates within Marxist and heterodox political economy in recent years. I really recommend checking it out.

New paper out! We explore how the Swedish wage-setting model (the Industrial Agreement) manages to hold wage increases together across occupations. Using large labour-market groups, we show that occupational hierarchy plays an increasing role in shaping who benefits most from wage growth.

Strong arguments here. The real problem is we don't live in a society in which we genuinely plan power production decades in advance. If we did, both nuclear and renewables would be built faster and cheaper as we wouldn't face the same grid constraints and economies of scale would be much greater.

Sammen med @williamwc.bsky.social har jeg skrevet nogle ord om hvorfor kløften mellem venstrefløjen og arbejderklassen har åbnet for højrefløjen at gå frem i energipolitikken www.information.dk/debat/2025/1...

In recent Danish municipal elections, the far-right made big gains by mobilizing voters against renewable energy. Jonas and I argue that this was a winning strategy because the left has mostly ignored problems in the industry like social dumping and mass layoffs. Sadly relevant far beyond Denmark.

Massefyringer i vindenergisektoren og social dumping i solindustrien er begge problemer, som venstrefløjen i stor udstrækning har ignoreret. Som følge heraf ser mange i landdistrikterne grøn energi som et symbol på forringelsen af hårdt tilkæmpede arbejdsforhold. Hvordan reagerer venstrefløjen nu?

Sammen med @jonasalgers.bsky.social har jeg skrevet en artikel om, hvordan venstrefløjens svage forbindelse til arbejderklassen bidrager til højredrejningen i debatten om vedvarende energi. For at ændre debattens præmisser må venstrefløjen styres mindre af miljø-NGO’er og mere af arbejderklassen.

Can't wait to read this

Is construction best left to the capitalist market? No. Let's learn from history and build new non-profit construction companies! 💥 new paper with Maria Wallstam in @housingjournal.bsky.social 💥

Ørsted carries out layoffs of nearly 200 employees in Denmark a few weeks after announcing a massive global firing round. A clear consequence of betting big on an unstable US market instead of focusing on building offshore wind in Scandinavian waters, where it's very much needed.

A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition." My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨NEWS: I recorded my lectures on Volume 1 in 2023. Imo, I think they're pretty good! (And different from Harvey, etc). It was my 5th time teaching the book, and I think I finally "got" a lot of stuff. So I put them all on Youtube as a playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFe...

Out today! www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

Radikale politikere i Information: “Blackstone har gjort en positiv forskel i lejernes liv … trukket huslejerne nedad.” Begrundelsen? Et studie fra USA, der kun sammenligner kapitalfonde med en hypotetisk situation med flere småudlejere, ikke med det reelle alternativ: flere almene boliger.

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The myth of the labour aristocracy is a fixation of professional class writers: "The image of privileged workers protecting their global position seems out of step with daily headlines of skyrocketing wealth flowing to the top and a cost-of-living crisis and economic insecurity for the majority..."

More bad news from the wind energy sector: Vestas cuts 900 jobs worldwide, including 190 in Denmark. Govt. talks about a green transition. Meanwhile, the people who design and build wind turbines lose their jobs by the hundreds. Hvad er venstrefløjens reaktion? @enhedslisten.bsky.social @sf.dk

The Scottish Government's plans for offshore wind expansion continue to fall apart as Shell cancels a 3GW floating wind project. As @brettchristophers.bsky.social argues, even large-scale renewables development is seldom profitable enough for oil majors. A public pathway is the only way forward.

Good question. Climate policy needs to focus less on target-setting and carbon accounting and more on actually building (or saving!) the industry that should deliver on such targets

The crisis in Europe’s wind industry deepens: 2/3 of all workers at LM Wind Power in Denmark to be laid off. What’s the response from the green left in Denmark? Kommunalvalget får al opmærksomheden for tiden – men hvad tænker I om det her? @pelledragsted.bsky.social @piaolsendyhr.bsky.social

OnlineFirst - "Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization" by Julia Wagner: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

BYD is considering opening a factory in Catalonia. Company executives and engineers have visited Catalonia several times in recent months in search of a suitable location for a factory that would complement existing production facilities in Hungary www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...

Spot on. The far right (PVV+JA21+FvD+SGP) won even more votes this election than they did in 2023. Middle class voters will always cycle between the various liberal parties. The real story here is the utter collapse of the Dutch left and the continued shift of working class voters to the right.

A lot of people are saying this is going to be one of the best books of the decade 👇👇

"[the Urbanization of Capital] puts capital's imperative to innovate and disrupt at the heart of the argument, along with the inevitable financial crises and urban revolutions that result. The theory is timeless in making clear that none of the shocks to the old ... order should come as a surprise."

"[David Harvey's] Consciousness and the Urban Experience never endorses any nostalgic search for lost time nor a headlong embrace of absolute modernization. Instead, David prises open the dialectic of modernity, the creative destruction that infused, and goes on infusing, our lives."

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head." In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Otroligt många som just nu läser denna insatta analys av @jonasalgers.bsky.social:

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

Jag älskar den bilburna friheten kring värmländska Årjäng – men utsläppen växer för varje motorvarv. I stället för att fylla despoternas fickor borde vi investera i ett grönt Sverige, skriver Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social. www.flamman.se/varfor-vill-...

Cover design for ‘Marxian Totality’ for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published August 2025. Cover art is a development of Painting 16, Rhythm 69. Paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2685-m...

Can't wait for this one to come out in paperback this month! A further development of two of Nimtz's previous books, both very sharp, namely "Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough" and "Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real Time Political Analysis"

The Revival of Critical Political Economy in Italy: Augusto #Graziani and Claudio #Napoleoni to be published in September #capitalism #dynamics #monetarycircuit #Minsky #Keynes #macromonetary #class #valuetheory #pricesofproduction #Marx #Heidegger #Mill #liberationoflabour #liberationfromlabour

Now online: 'Geert Reuten: A Fond Recollection' by Marcel van der Linden.

Socialists must plan for the next economic crisis *before* it happen. Otherwise, the ruling class will use it – again – to suppress workers and further destroy nature. This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.

Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents a series of vignettes which capture five moments of Marxist encounters with authoritarianism: 1. Marx & Engels 2. Lenin & Luxemburg 3. Pashukanis & Stuchka 4. Neumann & Bloch 5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre

Great article by Jon Las Heras, developing the work of Juan Iñigo Carrera, Guido Starosta and colleagues into an emphatic critique of the most widespread and ostensibly radical forms of "positivist" Marxism 🔥 www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...