“The city contends that Radiant Solar engaged in a dizzying array of mechanical and monetary malfeasance for years…Radiant’s solar panel systems often failed to deliver the energy savings it had advertised & sometimes did not work at all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/n...

You won't get 'affordability' without confronting capitalist class power. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My review of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" is out from @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2026/01/fres...

This is tonight!

My favorite thing I've written in a while. At my core, I'm an energy history nerd (a disciple of Vaclav Smil's hardcore energy materialism). So Fressoz's book More & More & More gave me much to think about and criticize. jacobin.com/2026/01/fres...

Beautiful words from @matthuber.bsky.social

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."

As usual, a good source for challenging our work as climate justice nerds. And yes, we must believe in the ability of humanity to organise capital and innovation in a way that makes everyone’s lives enjoyable and dignified - which requires to transition away from fossil in a just way.

My favorite thing I've written in a while. At my core, I'm an energy history nerd (a disciple of Vaclav Smil's hardcore energy materialism). So Fressoz's book More & More & More gave me much to think about and criticize. jacobin.com/2026/01/fres...

The thing is human history went through massive, species-altering transformations in the 19th C in ways that still shape us today (& Marx analyzed this very well!) But also what Tooze describes here— the contingency of history — is not out of step w/ historical materialism.

Really interesting analysis from Adam Hanieh: "In effect, the country is returning to the subordinate position it occupied in the early 20th C – rich in crude, but dependent on American capital and American refineries to turn that crude into value." www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/v...

Upcoming 1/21 Roundtable on #Venezuela, #Oil, and Global #Politics w/ the Marxist Education Project, @matthuber.bsky.social @stevemaherecon.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social & @cperezbustillo.bsky.social RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/venezu...

I'll be doing this online event on Venezuela with Steve Maher and @llchristyll.bsky.social next Wed January 21st at 7:30pm. Thanks to Fred Murphy and the Marxist Education Project for organizing! marxedproject.org/event/venezu...

Cool that @jacobinmag.bsky.social transcribed my conversation w/ Vivek Chibber on his "Confronting Capitalism" podcast. I really think it's worth a read or listen! jacobin.com/2026/01/abun...

Way to go MAGA.

Really enjoyed this Sinica podcast. Cutting through so much of the BS circulating around Venezuela. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Neoliberals really have nothing to offer but dreams. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

One big difference between Chavez and Maduro is that oil prices collapsed not too long after Chavez's death in 2013. Chavismo thrived in the context of an oil boom.

For the record, this is my response to your response. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/c...

“For all the talk of the 19th century, the closest immediate parallels to Trump’s action in Venezuela may be Iran 1953 and Guatemala 1954.” www.ft.com/content/7be4...

The good people at @jacobinmag.bsky.social asked me to revise (and add fresh content) to my substack piece on US oil capital's interests in Venezuela. jacobin.com/2026/01/trum...

The main US oil company with a vested interest in Venezuela had no idea the invasion was happening. www.economist.com/business/202...

It was really fun to go on Vivek Chibber's "Confronting Capitalism" podcast to talk about socialism and abundance. Listen up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Worth following Matt Huber and his prolific analysis of fossil Capital in the war on Venezuela 👇

Only Andreas Malm (or Wim Carton?) could connect Lenin’s reading of Hegel’s Logic to the science of climate tipping points. “It would be over the top to claim that contemporary climate science is moving towards an objectively Leninist understanding of its object. But not by much.”

Another post on oil and Venezuela. matthuber.substack.com/p/us-oil-cap...

I know these articles are meant to wow the NYT readership about how cool solar/batteries are, but pay attention to the protagonists: private homeowners & businesses saving personal wealth & delinking from shared, social grid infrastructure. Not good imo! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Wrote up some quick thoughts on oil and imperialism in light of Venezuela. open.substack.com/pub/matthube...

Our technology will destroy jobs and the social fabric for millions of people. How about we offer a measly 1% of our profits to start a nonprofit?

Such a great and thoughtful idea from a CEO here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

Now that Trump controls all three branches of government and is destroying everything Democrats care about, they have a new and exciting idea: "Maybe we shouldn't be the party of the status quo?" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

I am sick and home alone on Christmas Eve so naturally I’m watching the 1986 biopic of Rosa Luxemburg (first time!)

Excited to see a slightly edited (and profusely footnoted) version of my abundance essay w/ @leighphillips.bsky.social and @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social in the new issue of Catalyst. Love this pithy summary! Subscribe to @catalystjournal.bsky.social!

I was asked by @the-breakdown.bsky.social to talk about a book that shaped my thinking in 2025 and was excited to talk about this one. breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/books-of-t...

Decided to post something on substack for the 1st time (partially b/c of dissatisfaction with this place & the other place, it must be said). My first post is a response to @simonpirani.bsky.social's critiques of my work with @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social on electricity politics (link in next post).

Really smart point. Stop hinging your climate policy on capitalist/GOP buy in. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

BP's had a hell of a 20 yrs: ✅2004 -"Greenwashing" rebrand w/ "Beyond Petroleum" campaign. Invent "carbon footprint" deflecting blame. ✅2010-Spill 134 million gallons of oil into the sea. ✅2020-Claim ambition to shift from oil/gas to clean energy. ✅2025-Abandon such claims.

I continue to think it's really going to be tough for socialists to take over utilities when a main source of opposition is workers/unions (who have very good reason for resisting being shifted to public sector labor law). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

The special issue on 'renewables capitalism' is fully out now. It looks amazing! All open access (for now)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660...

Really sharp point here (~16:20) by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social. People though the IRA was meant to organize/expand a broader Dem coalition (centering workers), but it ended up sending lots of money to its already organized constituency: nonprofits. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

My god what a scandal: “To get a sense of how little electricity people use in sub-Saharan Africa, imagine each person there turning on a single 50-watt light bulb. That alone would instantly double electricity consumption.” www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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.

New from me in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).

I think the more impt distinction (that Harvey goes on about) is btw *capital* & capitalism. Marx acknowledges the "antediluvian" forms of capital (merchants' & usurers' capital) exist for 100's of years before the "primary" form (industrial) takes hold of *production*. (1/2)

“Readers braving [Beckert’s] 1100 pages should mentally prepare to end up without a clear idea of what capitalism is; they can find comfort in the fact that the author doesn’t have one either.” www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

"There's massive dishonesty involved." The current popular backlash to climate movements & advocacy is partially due to either the ignorance or dishonesty in claiming the shift to renewables is very 'cheap' (and easy). People like Bill McKibben are *still* saying this! www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Good piece “Defending the New Marxism.” open.substack.com/pub/leftnote...

Gah, this is SO refreshingly good (by the one and only @matthuber.bsky.social) damagemag.com/2025/11/12/w...