Geographer, Lifeblood (2013) @UMinnPress, Climate Change as Class War (2022) @VersoBooks https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war
Matt Huber
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What is wild about this chart is not only how long it took electricity technology to show up in productivity gains, but also how short lived it was.
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““The Left is still able to summon electoral victories through social democratic rhetoric, but the social depth of our winning coalitions is far thinner, and the scope for governance within capitalism is even more narrow than before.“ jacobin.com/2026/06/soci...
Contradictions of electricity markets: "Britain has had to cut back on its practice of trading power with Europe to prevent blackouts at home, after the size and speed of its electricity trading put strain on the supplies of its neighbours." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
"Since A.I. is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity." 🔥🔥🔥
“Drivers cannot engage in true collective bargaining. They are allowed to join unions but these all fall under the party, which is more committed to stamping out occasional protests than uniting workers as a social force. ‘Everyone knows that organising is useless,’ says Mr Guan”
Warms my heart to see Bernie Sanders take exactly the right (and socialist!) line on AI technology.
"Changing society's relation to nature more broadly remains a worthy project" (206).
This by @ueberdruss.bsky.social is a brilliant Marxist analysis of energy history that deserves its place alongside Malm, Mitchell and other classics of the last couple decades.
