Great mail day @damagemag.bsky.social
06.03.2026 14:23
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Great mail day @damagemag.bsky.social
I think a good general rule of thumb is if capital voluntarily agrees to something it's not going to work out well for the working class.
Stunning analysis of the war's impact on global fertilizer markets. Trump has no idea what he is unleashing. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Something to monitor w/ regard to the Texas Senate race. Trump is actively expressing a desire for very low oil prices at a level that makes much Texas production unprofitable (ofc his Iran escapades might solve the problem).
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Check out Matt’s piece and much more in our latest issue of the Eco Update 🌎👇
Tagging @briefecology.bsky.social
In "Developing a Proletarian Ecology", @matthuber.bsky.social breaks down his recent paper in Capitalism Nature Socialism and discusses the importance of prioritizing the working class in the ecosocialist movement
www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...
The original article is open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My new article on 'proletarian ecology' was featured in 'Brief Ecology' for their February issue of 'Eco-Update'. t.co/eJy84rTh8S
Since I'm teaching my course on oil for the first time since 2018, I was able to re-examine the argument that the invasion of Iraq was "all about oil".
Since I'm teaching my course on oil for the first time since 2018, I was able to re-examine the argument that the invasion of Iraq was "all about oil".
This is surprising, but I'm honored tbf.
Nice to meet you!
I went to a really fantastic climate panel this afternoon, with @matthuber.bsky.social @gwagner.com and @dwallacewells.bsky.social speaking, and I learned a lot and reframed my opinions and was so happy to be among like-minded people — and god it made me miss Climate Twitter lol.
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And our piece “The Utility of Utilities” just migrated to substack. www.damagemag.com/p/the-utilit...
Great piece. A lot of overlap w/ my work w/ @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social
We argue utilities—*both* the public TVA-kind & the private vertically integrated kind—provide the unique combo of a socialized investment model + long-range central planning needed for our new era of “load growth.”
For example:
I love David Harvey (more influential on me than basically anyone), but I actually wish he spent more time on the 'changing the world' thing (i.e. socialist politics/transition).
His relentless focus has been a critique of capital (& thus merely an 'anti-capitalist' politics).
Didn't tag properly (apologies): @ppfideas.bsky.social
Madness.
I can't recommend enough this 3-part chilling & sober discussion on the threat of nuclear war from @PPFIdeas.
"There is no bigger problem than this."
Also: "It's easy to isolate Trump...but the Biden admin in my mind was happier to push those escalatory risks...[in Ukraine]."
Well, is our extinction inevitable? (If so, sad news). Even if it is, you can read his statement as applying to the life of our species. And I would argue that our 'capacities' have been on an overall upward trajectory (particularly for the last 40K yrs) - even with some dips downward along the way.
I mean human productive capabilities have increased throughout history. I guess you think that's going to stop once and for all?
confrontingcapitalism.substack.com/p/is-ai-comi...
Vivek Chibber on the "essence of the socialist project" and "why degrowth is an insanely stupid idea." 😀🔥
“It’s now the college-educated, office-dwelling winners of the age of the internet and globalization, who are suddenly discovering that they, too, can become the needless things alongside the blue-collar manufacturing base that Trump and MAGA has thus far failed to revive.”
A bonkers chart I'm teaching today.
