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Matt Huber
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Geographer, Lifeblood (2013) @UMinnPress, Climate Change as Class War (2022) @VersoBooks versobooks.com/books/3973-cli…
- Counterpoint: the Bernie wave of 2015-20 was the best period on the US left in the last 50 yrs. A period where we were starting to get serious about power & mass politics. Now again we face the abyss of political irrelevance & sweeping moral denunciations like this traffic well.The Bernie Sanders style of left politics needs to be completely dismantled. Not adjusted, dismantled. It is a catastrophic failure. It crushes leftist energy and imagination, and channels them into the most narrow-minded and unambitious reformism.
- He came into office after the dire warnings of the 2007 IPCC report. He had both houses of Congress, a Supreme Court ruling giving EPA the ability to regulate carbon, and a crisis calling for New Deal-like public investment. Instead he presided over a world historic oil/gas boomObama: "Suddenly America is the largest oil producer, that was me people ... say thank you."
00:00 - I really do blame Obama for convincing a generation of Democrats that you can will your way into power via platitudes.We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.
- ‘Ain’t it the truth? “In capitalist society, free time is produced for one class by the conversion of the whole lifetime of the masses into labour-time” ~Marx,Capital, Vol 1, 667
- A real puzzle how this party is at a historic peak of unpopularity.More than 40 percent of New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo’s top endorsements by elected officials have come from people who publicly condemned him four years ago, a POLITICO review found. politico.com/news/2025/06/1…
- In terms of political thinkers I admire and who have deeply influenced me, Mike Davis is at the top of the list. So you can't imagine how it felt to receive his 'blurb' for my new book directly from him via email.
- Two thoughts: 1-Abundance has always been central to the socialist agenda b/c capitalism thrives on artificial scarcity. 2-Diminishing the role of NGOs/lawyers/affluent citizens in blocking/slowing critical infrastructure for the working class ≠ pro-capitalist deregulation.
- Degrowthers are now splitting on the question of whether all humans can have refrigerators are not.Oh wow who would’ve ever guessed that refrigeration has far-reaching negative externalities that make it impossible to universalize Maybe the degrowth modernists should have a little book club. Or is the NYTimes too “anarcho-primitivist” for your tastes?
- I'm honestly tired of this debate, but one of the major Marxist journals has now fully embraced degrowth. I read JB Foster's introduction and wanted to tease out points of agreement and disagreement. 🧵1/x
- One of my unpopular opinions is that we still live in a world historical era defined by the real material possibility for unprecedented human emancipation and freedom.The annoying thing is that despite everything the world is very much worth fighting for.
- Everyone on the left is virulently anti-abundance…except the democratic socialist candidate for mayor of NYC. He explains the core pitch really well: we need to be good at delivering public goods!After the NYC Mayoral debate last night, many are wondering if @ZohranKMamdani is “Abundance pilled”. No need to wonder! @jonlovett straight up asked him this week, “Are you Abundance pilled?”
00:00 - Sounds pretty burdened by what has been.Read my full statement on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
