ADAM TOOZE

At the significant moment in delivering these lines about “freedom loving” Brits & birthplace of freedom lines, he even turns around to his backbench, as if to indicate who he is talking to. twitter.com/davies_will/st…

"Die Erfahrung unserer Generation: daß der Kapitalismus keines natürlichen Todes sterben wird." The experience of our generation: capitalism will not die of natural causes. W. Benjamin Arcade Project Presumably from 1930s. One for @BarnabyRaine https://t.co/Hup6eT3tKb

‘Marxism of technology is no philanthropy for maltreated metals, but rather the end of the naïve application of the standpoint of the exploiter and animal tamer to nature.’ Ernst Bloch quoted by Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm … maltreated metals! 🙂 https://t.co/9NTrHwebWd

"Devolution in ecosystems – say, ‘the rise of slime’ in the oceans: the ascent of jellyfish and toxic algae – has a fitting counterpart in the current state of Western politics." Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm https://t.co/fClEJBa2x0

"If modernity was the epoch when time moved forwards and post-modernity that when it stood still, there was always the possibility of it starting to move backwards." Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm . Verso Books. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/EppDMQLyhG

"Hybridism is the theoretical mirror image of the homogenising bulldozer of capital. It is encountered some circles down in environmental hell.” You gotta love the polemical panache of Malm in The Progress of This Storm https://t.co/DGEiW5DNVL

"the supreme commodity of the age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel." Joseph Conrad on “coal” from Victory, cited by Malm, The Progress of this Storm. https://t.co/RhWRSkj0jE

RT @Intetyst: This article by @adam_tooze is very worth reading. While you may not agree with all of his points of view,it is a great basis…

RT @dw_culture: Germany has nine of them: artificially heaped potash mountains. They are remnants of salt extraction and have a negative en…

RT @dwallacewells: “The lesson of the mid-20th-century crisis is not that Western capitalist democracy rose to the challenge. The lesson is…

RT @poltheoryother: @adam_tooze Here's another interview I did with Andreas: soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…

RT @fbeirao: GE to Stop Selling Equipment for New Coal-Fired Power Plants bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"the construction metaphor implies a … thoroughly diachronic, temporality. Construction is a noun formed from a verb; it signifies a process of building, carried out by human actors and stretched out over time.” Sewell Logics of History as quoted by Malm https://t.co/AjnUjsnvxx

RT @picharbonnier: Il faut lire le papier de @adam_tooze sur la course au vaccin #Covid. Il raconte cela comme on raconterait une guerre,…

@ProfMarkWilson As I conclude by saying that IS the most charitable interpretation.

RT @GlobalFaultline: COVID-19 and climate breakdown are “interlaced aspects of what is now one chronic emergency,” twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

RT @JakeMGrumbach: Great thread from @Noahpinion on how traditional methods have underestimated climate risk, using the West Coast fires as…

This was my first thread. I could get used to this!

An early review by @Gareth_Dale who knows his Lenin! mronline.org/2020/08/06/a-r…

I get the attraction of New Deal & WWII as a touchstone for democratic mobilization, role of the state, socially transformative vision etc. But we need to handle its history with care. Is war communism the best counter balance? Malm is always good to read.

Its a hugely complex legacy in which we are still entangled today. And yet what gets celebrated, again and again, are the productivist triumphs. vox.com/energy-and-env… https://t.co/ye9BER2ZTV

It was out of WWII-Cold War era that US global oil strategy anchored on MIddle East emerged with implications for development of both W Europe and Japan. https://t.co/0Oh6hh7js4

It was a war won by oil and capped in the aftermath by the consolidation of what you might call the "energy state". https://t.co/mhyS04ExP9

But even taken at face value: US war effort in WWII was an absolutely classic demonstration of the power of state-led, capitalist-driven, carbon-intensive economic growth. North American emissions surged 1939-1944 from 481,133,000 metric tons of C to 704,364,000.

Ive always felt that it overstates US – aka arsenal of democracy's – contribution to eventual victory and misunderstands the complex and politically ambiguous alliance with Stalinist Soviet Union/Brit Empire that actually won the war. https://t.co/7LJGFdJVcH

Malm (slight) skepticism regarding WWII as an appropriate jumping-off point for radical climate politics is spot on. Coming from a vastly different political place than Malm, Ive always found it disconcerting that it should serve as a model. foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/15/cli…

Wars are clearly a key moment for thinking about the possibilities of modern political economy and Malm's argument appears to pivot on the WWII (GND) v. War Communism (climate Leninism) axis. https://t.co/tC8a2diIDL

He gave an interview to @jacobinmag a while back in which he laid out some of the arguments. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/andrea…

Andreas Malm's new book on Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency War Communism in the Twenty-First Century is out tomorrow with @VersoBooks and Im kinda excited to engage with it. versobooks.com/books/3704-cor… https://t.co/ytqHwB9RaF

Does an organization like Climate Action 100+ with 518 members and $47trn AUM have capacity to act as a “Gesamtkapitalist” on climate change? @AttractaMooney ft.com/content/5ad57c… I ask similar question about vaccines here: foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/99Xw9lQ6s0

If only the vaccine race WERE the moonshot! Benchmarked to GDP the US spent $700bn on the space race. So far, $10bn has gone on operation Warp Speed for the corona vaccine. We need a new political economy for the anthropocene. But LOVE @D_Urbo_Design pic! foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/tbuDTZhHIk

Special relationship: trans-Atlantic flights and London-NYC in particular are key to business of BA and Virgin and important for US carriers too. ft.com/content/8920da… https://t.co/5MqgC7wnoo

RT @SocialHistoryOx: In Cambridge in 1663, the vice chancellor would only licence coffeehouses if they agreed to 'suffer no scholars of thi…

“Get out now, or risk the consequences.” @gideonrachman on the long arm of Chinese and American extraterritoriality. ft.com/content/33e23a… https://t.co/HJL1qqXTIH

RT @MaxCRoser: If you are diagnosed with breast-cancer in a country where GDP per capita is over $30,000 per year, your chance to survive t…

@jwassers @ForeignPolicy Thanks!