“Over its 9-year lifespan, the CCC employed about 3 million men nationwide.” nps.gov/pinn/learn/his…

Not just an unhelpful slogan, but a failed policy framework which sought to remake climate change in the image of the technocratic co-ordinating caste, offering nothing for the working class, thus making it an easy target for the right.

Jonas Elvander openDemocracy Matt Huber Daniel Driscoll An in-depth critique of Kohei Saito’s degrowth communism theory, from @matthuber78 and me: jacobin.com/2024/03/kohei-…

Privileged to spend Tues 4-23 waking up live with Amy & Juan on Democracy Now! re current and future of working class organizing. We are in exciting yet perilous times. I am super fortunate to then head talk with The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast re BIG UAW win and small stuff like saving democracy.

A new study finds that Democrats are not running the types of economic populist candidates they need to win back workers. jacobin.com/2024/04/democr…

👀 damagemag.com/2024/04/01/the…

Jonas Elvander openDemocracy A critique of degrowth again from the left, from @matthuber78 (Jan 16 2023): jacobin.com/2023/07/degrow…

Happy Earth Day! Here in one place: all the left critiques of eco-austerity, degrowth, anti-nuclearism, etc I can find.

This school of thought has been described as ‘left ecomodernism’, but despite some affinities with ecomodernism, it’s really just classic democratic socialism

Jonas Elvander openDemocracy Matt Huber Daniel Driscoll David Griscom Fred Stafford Matt Huber’s longform essay in Catalyst journal on the problem of an environmentalism based in the middle class instead of focussing on the interests, knowledge and potential power of the working class: catalyst-journal.com/2019/07/ecolog…

Jonas Elvander openDemocracy Matt Huber Daniel Driscoll David Griscom Fred Stafford Here’s @fredstafford and @matthuber78 from just a few days ago, giving a left argument for the monopoly utility model itself - yes even investor-owned - contra deregulation & more competition. damagemag.com/2024/04/01/the…

Jonas Elvander openDemocracy Matt Huber Daniel Driscoll David Griscom Fred Stafford More extensive stuff on the TVA from Fred Stafford and Matt Huber, defending it from its green critics (April 4 2022): jacobin.com/2022/04/new-de…

Epic thread of so much great stuff. If you read one thing tho, I keep coming back to this one.

The IBEW let us use their union hall for our organizing committee. And I love this video with the IBEW flag behind me, as I got my start in the IBEW as an apprentice, 35 years ago!! Union Solidarity!!

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Both electrification and gas central heating were brought (to quite often publicly owned) homes by publicly owned utilities. They were rightly seen as huge improvements to people's lives. We simply don't have that scale of ambition or public enterprise in Britain today.

Adding to this thread about class & climate to highlight comments from the Brownies (Assad Shoaib and moi), & Matt Huber who works with unions.

Thanks to Emma River-Roberts & The Working Class Climate Alliance for organising!

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“…if we seized the means of production, science could inform a collective determination that it is necessary to “degrow” in some way, but why would we make this a prerequisite of our program and foreclose that democratic determination?”

Great piece by Matt Huber

Excellent review that makes many similar points that Matt Huber and I make in our Utility of Utilities essay, re competition. I haven't read the book but imagine I'd feel very similarly to Ted Nordhaus here, though perhaps more appreciative of the financial analytical content.