Matt Huber

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US energy secretary seeks ‘flood of investment’ in Venezuela Chris Wright says Washington will not provide security or financial guarantees despite oil executives’ concerns

And the “lifelong socialist” has to smile & take it.

“Rodríguez, a life-long socialist who served as Maduro’s vice-president before receiving the Trump administration’s backing to lead business-friendly reforms…”

Such a sad pic here:

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Guy whose government just kidnapped your President criticizes China for not making “mutually beneficial deals.” 👍

Amazing thanks.

What should I read first to discover my comrade's aligned thought?

I remember reading your piece about Danish politics after just leaving Denmark! It really stuck with me. :-)

This looks really really great and hits the nail on the head regarding how a lot of eco-Marxism has abandoned the working class

Also a boon to be cited in this just a couple of days before my thesis defence =')

“Much ecological politics focuses on a kind of localism – localizing food systems, reuniting communities with ecologies – but clearly that is not what is required. The crisis is global and requires a restructuring of production at the planetary scale, at the level of the species."

“This framework winds up perversely suggesting that workers in core states have actually benefited from globalization rather than being among its principal victims. In fact, far from blocking the forces of real competition, globalization has been about intensifying them…” (2/2)

Under Capitalism, Democracy Stops at the Economy In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy.

“This means that it is mistaken to suggest that working classes in the global core somehow ‘exploit’ workers and peasants in peripheral states, as is sometimes suggested by contemporary accounts of the ‘imperial mode of living’.” (1/2) jacobin.com/2026/02/capi...

🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization.

This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions).

OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

Proletarian Ecology and the Planetary Mode of Production The globalization of production and its planetary ecological effects suggest we’ve entered an era defined by the planetary mode of production. Such a moment necessitates a planetary subject and the...

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🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization.

This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions).

OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

jacobin.com/2026/01/musi...

Four Lessons From the UAW’s Turn Toward Class Struggle Chris Brooks, former chief of staff to United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, was key to an attempt to transform a once mighty union hobbled by corruption and lethargy. Here’s what he learned from ...

"To meet that moment, we need more than a handful of class struggle unions or socialist mayors. We need a class struggle labor movement and a class struggle political party. That requires many more capable leaders than our movement has now." jacobin.com/2026/02/fain...

"For us, flourishing is inseparable from the transformation of the technical and social means by which we reproduce our lives."

"Hegel helps us see that work like Saito’s is premised on a false dichotomy—the choice is not between growth and degrowth but capital growth and rational growth."

Radical Eudaimonism | The Point Magazine The choice is not between growth and degrowth but capital growth and rational growth.

“…the task is to rationalize growth: to expand and develop the forces of production so that they might better enable and express the fundamental end of animals like us. In other words, our freedom.” thepointmag.com/politics/rad...

"Unlike his predecessors, Trump forgoes cultivated speeches delivered with a legalistic silver tongue; but the violent core of his idea of a Pax Americana is anything but new."

Wolfgang Streeck, American Violence — Sidecar An interview with Wolgang Streeck

"Proclaimed after the so-called end of history in the early 1990s, the ‘rules-based order’ was administered by the US as the world’s policeman, world court and world executioner all at once, and by them alone, at their discretion. They never applied this order to themselves..."

Venezuelan Lawmakers Approve Sweeping Overhaul of Oil Sector

It is remarkable that US imperial power has forced an ideologically socialist regime to push through a highly neoliberal reform of their oil sector. Will it actually entice capital to invest? I'm still doubtful (and the article raises many doubts!)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/w...

The whole concept of 'cost shifting' seems to me a product of ceding economic activity to market forces out of our collective control. Socialist planning would attempt to account for all costs in any form of production in relation to the use values provided.

New York Sues Solar Panel Firm, Saying It Bilked Hundreds of Customers

“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...

How France achieved the world's fastest nuclear buildout France built 37 nuclear reactors in ten years. To do this required making sure local communities shared in the benefits of atomic power.

I mean to mention a plant in France that took 20 years (but fail to mention France as a whole really did rapidly decarbonize on the basis of nuclear power over the course of a decade) seems like a selective use of a 'fact' to me. worksinprogress.co/issue/libert...

I wrote the review for Jacobin, an explicitly political publication (and I do think there is an explicit and mostly implicit politics to his analysis). But I also analyze the history he offers in terms of industrialization and his examples of technical change causing environmental gains.

Noting in this clip makes me think he's a fan of nuclear lol. He links it to the main target of his whole book's critique! (The concept of 'energy transition') And, he repeats all the anti-nuclear talking points (not that impt, too slow, too expensive, etc).

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...

YouTube video by Marxist Education Project Roundtable on Venezuela, Trump, and Global Politics

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YouTube video by Marxist Education Project Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change with Matt Huber - Jan 8 2025

I have to think so (pretty sure MEP records all their events). Here's one I did about a year ago in fact! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PNL...

This is tonight!