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
🚨NEWS: I recorded my lectures on Volume 1 in 2023. Imo, I think they're pretty good! (And different from Harvey, etc). It was my 5th time teaching the book, and I think I finally "got" a lot of stuff.
So I put them all on Youtube as a playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFe...
So I put them all on Youtube as a playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFe...
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🚨NEWS: I recorded my lectures on Volume 1 in 2023. Imo, I think they're pretty good! (And different from Harvey, etc). It was my 5th time teaching the book, and I think I finally "got" a lot of stuff.
So I put them all on Youtube as a playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFe...
So I put them all on Youtube as a playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFe...
🚨NEW article from me in the journal "Science & Society": A reading of Marx's Capital (Volume 1) through the climate crisis.
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🚨NEW article from me in the journal "Science & Society": A reading of Marx's Capital (Volume 1) through the climate crisis.
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
Reading abt Marx's critique of the bourgeois republic's constitution for "its concentration of power in the executive at the expense of the legislature" that could allow, "powerful president...to overthrow the Republic from within" & thinking wow so remote & not relevant to today
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reading abt Marx's critique of the bourgeois republic's constitution for "its concentration of power in the executive at the expense of the legislature" that could allow, "powerful president...to overthrow the Republic from within" & thinking wow so remote & not relevant to today
New interview w/ me for a the Turkish organization Kompleks (kompleks.org) (In Turkish but you can 'translate').
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New interview w/ me for a the Turkish organization Kompleks (kompleks.org) (In Turkish but you can 'translate').
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
Now in Portuguese - the internet translation back to English is funny. www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Now in Portuguese - the internet translation back to English is funny. www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
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-...