I've been too swamped to continue this thread (hope to return to it), but WOW the editors include this endnote w/ a resolution by Marx to a Congress for the IWMA (1st International). Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!

Everyone should read this book. It's too wedded to the lifestyle consumption politics in spots for my liking, but I think it has a core *socialist* message (unintended, I'm sure): much of our environmental and human problems stem from avoidable poverty & inequality. (1/2)

A core argument of my book: “Solutions that address affordability first, and also help fight climate change, are more likely to see strong support from voters.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/the...

There are many arguments against capitalism, but here's a powerful one: it's 2025 and our economic system still hasn't figured out how to deliver modern sanitation services to *nearly half of humanity*.

I have a new piece of writing in the Spanish publication "Metapolis" arguing against the idea that the "youth" are the agent of transformation in climate politics. metapolis.net/project/the-...

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

I have a new piece of writing in the Spanish publication "Metapolis" arguing against the idea that the "youth" are the agent of transformation in climate politics. metapolis.net/project/the-...

“Marx – who was as great a promethean progressive as one could find – thought technology ought to serve social and human needs. Today, we have the formula exactly backwards – society serves tech.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New 'open access' article out; a commentary on the impt work on class & climate by Klaus Dörre. His focus on ownership/production & empirics on the German auto sector are both strong, but I critique his separation of 'class' and 'ecology' as 2 'axes'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I've been profoundly depressed seeing so many leftists either joke about or celebrate the murder of someone for political speech. Glad to see this political clarity from @benburgis.bsky.social and Meagan Day in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

"That is the task before organized labor: not to win some PR war, not to continue pouring money into elections...not even simply to invest in new organizing by the standard methods, but to once again test the bounds of strategic disruption to see if those muscles still work."

Keep thinking about this: the Democrats are basically a conservative status quo party. Its professional class base just wants Trump gone to "go back to normal." They cant fathom huge swathes of society hate them & will support any movement that promises to smash that status quo.

Great by Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4gg0mhz

Finally read @alex1789.bsky.social critique of the new arguments about techno/neo-feudalism on the left. Great stuff! americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tech...

If I were on the socialist left, I would simply not argue in large, prominent outlets that Trump's economic policies have positive ecological dimensions.

Having trouble with the use of “The Weight” by The Band in a Best Western commercial.

Ecosocialists have been saying this for the better part of two decades, but don’t offer much of a strategy on how to address it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...

Nice to see Hickel affirm arguments I've made for a while. -Stop using the word 'degrowth' when we just mean socialism. -Degrowth is *not* a movement w/ any capacity to achieve real power (only appeals to academics). -Lifestyle consumption shaming is terrible politics. youtu.be/bjlqWHXrTak?...

Alright I'm going to try to do a 🧵as I read this translation (paying most attention to the how it differs from the Fowkes translation I'm more familiar with).

Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes" Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor. shs.cairn.info/revue-critiq...

I’m always saying this. on.ft.com/4fQLru8

“Reitter’s retranslation comes at a time when postcapitalist futures that still seemed likely in the 1970s have been replaced by admiring despair about capitalism’s seemingly endless ‘world-making and world-destroying capacities’…” (1/2) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The world is in dire straights, but I feel pretty lucky to be teaching a Fall seminar based on these two books from @princetonupress.bsky.social.

In Vol 1, Marx argues relentless competition between capitalists will force them to develop the productive forces in the pursuit of relative surplus value. It's interesting how China engineers this kind of competition to accomplish exactly that in green tech sectors.

So outrageous. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

This is a really clarifying episode. The PMC concept conflates professionals w/ managers who actually facilitate the exploitation of labor. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In 1935, FDR passed the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) of 1935 to combat massive corporate concentration between electric utilities, industrial and financial capital. We repealed PUHCA in 2005. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Forgot to mention this will be part of a special debate issue of @devandchg.bsky.social on 'renewables capitalism' co-edited by Murat Arsel and Alfredo Saad-Filho. Look out for more amazing contributions!

🚨NEW article from me is OPEN access. It explains the phenomenon of 'renewable capital' in the USA: "a specific form of privatized wealth accumulation made possible by the ‘unbundling’ of electricity as a public utility." Thread in next post! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Currently trying to work through Reviewer 1's 9 pages of single-spaced comments (5K words). 😵

In this podcast, Ray Dalio claims 60% of the US population has below a 6th grade reading level. Really?! Holy shit. www.ft.com/content/b72b...

Great summation of dynamics in @brettchristophers.bsky.social's book. Imagine a mode of production geared toward 'production for use' that could rationally plan the utilization of such solar resources instead of leaving it to anarchic (and cannibalizing) market forces.

Simultaneously, the authors insist that state capacity mobilized to deliver plenty is the correct path for the left. Small-is-beautiful community governance lacks the power of scale + often ends up dictated by interests of the few over needs of the many. jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...

Recommend @matthuber.bsky.social @leighphillips.bsky.social @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social as a key intervention on abundance. Both private market interests + an NGO-govt-legal bureaucracy hinder abundance. Class struggle must overcome both to deliver a plentiful future.

A really nice engagement with our Abundance piece (in the context of a stale/toxic debate). "I’ve seen so much online discourse devolve into purity tests, tactical pessimism, and knee-jerk hostility. This piece cuts through that." stephnakhleh.substack.com/p/jacobins-s...

Great visuals showing how data centers in Ireland can buy clean energy credits to claim “100% clean” energy whole relying on a gas heavy grid. “This strange dynamic means clean energy investments by companies operating in Ireland do not necessarily clean up the country’s grid.”

"A new New Deal program of public abundance would face procedural barriers that the original never encountered, like NEPA and the Administrative Procedures Act. The Hamiltonian progressivism that delivered the New Deal simply isn’t the one that has congealed institutionally in the Groups."

“From 1945 to 1952, American occupying forces strictly censored images of the two destroyed cities.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Really crucial conversation on how climate politics needs a positive vision of the future.

BP “Beyond Petroleum” (2004) “Bumerangue is BP’s 10th discovery this year, following successful wells in Trinidad, Egypt, Libya, Brazil & the Gulf of Mexico. Azule, BP’s joint venture w Italian oil major Eni, has also made discoveries in Namibia & Angola” on.ft.com/3UIitTv

Intressant recension av Abundance från @matthuber.bsky.social et al. De lyckas bättre än jag att formulera styrkan i Klein och Thompsons argument jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...

“We applaud Klein and Thompson’s advocacy of a ‘liberalism that builds’ through effective capacity. But they underplay the extent to which capitalism and class power will prevent their agenda from yielding the political fruit they envision.” jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...

I was confused by the wholesale Left rejection of "Abundance" both bc it's central to the general socialist project & bc the book itself has valuable insights. So here finally is our sympathetic/critical review of the book & its critics (w @leighphillips.bsky.social & @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social).

Great profile. The other day I was thinking Odd Lots is the Clifford Geertz “thick description” of economic podcasts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

On a new monthly best-of edition from 🌎Green Majority🌎 the panel talk climate impact vulnerability, @matthuber.bsky.social on his book 'Climate Change As Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet' pushing back against PM Carney's Bill C-5 and more: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gre... 🔶

"At its core, though, the energy culture war is being waged not between industries so much as between classes. For the new populist Right...the class enemy is not green capital per se, but the wider 'professional class'..." unherd.com/2025/07/trum...

I wrote about Trump's energy policy and the underlying class dynamics of an emergent culture war fixated on solar and wind power. unherd.com/2025/07/trum...

“Capital is a process of abstract violence to the materiality of the real world.” - @matthuber.bsky.social

Great convo-2 impt points. 1-Energy politics is all about affordability moving fwd. 2-There is no scientific certainty on a key boundary/tipping point where the Earth's climate becomes uninhabitable. Every .1 degree just get worse, while *uncertain risks* of feedbacks increase.