Matt Huber
@matthuber.bsky.social
Geographer, Lifeblood (2013) @UMinnPress, Climate Change as Class War (2022) @VersoBooks https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war
Really hits home how the only way the Left can deliver a massive public goods agenda is through power at the Federal level. 🫤
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Really hits home how the only way the Left can deliver a massive public goods agenda is through power at the Federal level. 🫤
Ultimately, Petro and many others since the 1970s, have wanted to wed Marxism w/ scarcity-mongering ecological economics (interestingly Georgescu-Roegen does rely on Marx's 'reproduction schemas' for his entropy theory of economics, but his conclusions are in no way Marxist). 4/7
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ultimately, Petro and many others since the 1970s, have wanted to wed Marxism w/ scarcity-mongering ecological economics (interestingly Georgescu-Roegen does rely on Marx's 'reproduction schemas' for his entropy theory of economics, but his conclusions are in no way Marxist). 4/7
This morning I was also reading Brian Potter's post on how US rail systems dramatically reduced the material cost of rail construction.
Marx called this 'economy in the use of constant capital' in Vol. 3. Resource efficiency can boost profit!
2/7 www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail
Marx called this 'economy in the use of constant capital' in Vol. 3. Resource efficiency can boost profit!
2/7 www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This morning I was also reading Brian Potter's post on how US rail systems dramatically reduced the material cost of rail construction.
Marx called this 'economy in the use of constant capital' in Vol. 3. Resource efficiency can boost profit!
2/7 www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail
Marx called this 'economy in the use of constant capital' in Vol. 3. Resource efficiency can boost profit!
2/7 www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail
It's cool that the President of Colombia reads Marx and talks about capital, but this is NOT what the 'logic of capital' entails. The logic of capital is about profit/accumulation. If you can make more profit by consuming less, you will. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's cool that the President of Colombia reads Marx and talks about capital, but this is NOT what the 'logic of capital' entails. The logic of capital is about profit/accumulation. If you can make more profit by consuming less, you will. 1/7
"If [Mamdani] can buck the trend of the enviro left’s hostility to nuclear, he could demonstrate to NYC...that the left can think rationally about the energy system, its affordability, & the wide scope of the climate problem. That would truly be charting a new path."
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"If [Mamdani] can buck the trend of the enviro left’s hostility to nuclear, he could demonstrate to NYC...that the left can think rationally about the energy system, its affordability, & the wide scope of the climate problem. That would truly be charting a new path."
I learned almost 2 weeks ago, but still reeling from the loss of my brother & best friend, Jeff Huber. Link here to his obituary. We laughed so much together. Onlookers were often puzzled at what we were actually laughing about, so we called it Hubmor. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I learned almost 2 weeks ago, but still reeling from the loss of my brother & best friend, Jeff Huber. Link here to his obituary. We laughed so much together. Onlookers were often puzzled at what we were actually laughing about, so we called it Hubmor. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...
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!
Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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!
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)
September 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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)
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*.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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*.
Got a positive reply
September 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Got a positive reply
Some personal news lol:
September 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Some personal news lol:
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
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...
jacobin.com/2025/09/char...
September 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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...
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."
September 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"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."
Great by Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4gg0mhz
September 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Great by Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4gg0mhz
Also couldn’t agree more
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Also couldn’t agree more
Finally read @alex1789.bsky.social critique of the new arguments about techno/neo-feudalism on the left. Great stuff! americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tech...
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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.
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
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-...
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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-...
18) OK, here's one I like. Reitter chooses the more compact "how long" compared with "the temporal duration of labour." Cleaner.
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
18) OK, here's one I like. Reitter chooses the more compact "how long" compared with "the temporal duration of labour." Cleaner.
17) In Fowkes, "bourgeois society" is "civil society." Probably something German here, but interesting (and readers will take very different meanings from the two words).
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
17) In Fowkes, "bourgeois society" is "civil society." Probably something German here, but interesting (and readers will take very different meanings from the two words).
16) This one is just interesting. A new paragraph in the Fowkes, not so in the new one. Seems to me a new idea (I assume Marx in the French edition and Engels in subsequent editions agreed).
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
16) This one is just interesting. A new paragraph in the Fowkes, not so in the new one. Seems to me a new idea (I assume Marx in the French edition and Engels in subsequent editions agreed).
15) OK, this one hurts (classic quote in eco-Marxist circles). The "metabolism btw man & nature" becomes "the human metabolizing of nature." I'm sure there's a German reason, but it sounds more awkward (& needlessly foregrounds 'human' in a reciprocal relationship).
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
15) OK, this one hurts (classic quote in eco-Marxist circles). The "metabolism btw man & nature" becomes "the human metabolizing of nature." I'm sure there's a German reason, but it sounds more awkward (& needlessly foregrounds 'human' in a reciprocal relationship).
14) Backing up. OK, this one is a bit funny. The 'commercial knowledge of commodities' becomes what sounds like a new flashy major concocted in the humanities lounge (a discipline in fact!): commodity studies.
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
14) Backing up. OK, this one is a bit funny. The 'commercial knowledge of commodities' becomes what sounds like a new flashy major concocted in the humanities lounge (a discipline in fact!): commodity studies.