William Westgard-Cruice
@williamwc.bsky.social
Political and economic geographer • energy, labour, and the critique of political economy • Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) www.williamwestgardcruice.com
"Is there anything redeemable about 1776? ... yes ... the plebeian rebels of 1776 also planted the seeds for the modern US proletariat, the first social layer in the millennial-old history of class society that not only has an interest in its eradication but also has the actual capacity to do so."
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · last mo.Now online: 'The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed' by August H. Nimtz.
📺TUED Global Forum: How Mexico’s Energy Transition Could Re-Shape Global Climate Policy Join us for a discussion on Mexico’s energy transition. 🔊Languages: English & Español 🗓️Tue June 30, 2026 🕖8:00am Mexico time // 10am NYC ⏳RSVP: tinyurl.com/TUED-Jun30
Excellent article from Alejandro Fitzsimons and Guido Starosta on industrial restructuring, the rate of profit, and the dynamics of value transfer in automotive global value chains 🔥🔥🔥 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ersetzt die Geoökonomie den Neoliberalismus? Meine Antwort: Nein. Mein neuer Artikel in @prokla.bsky.social zeigt am USA-China-Konflikt, warum Geoökonomie als Anpassung neoliberaler Globalisierung und Staatlichkeit an die verschärfte Weltmarktkonkurrenz zu verstehen ist. doi.org/10.32387/pro...
Geoökonomie als Ende des Neoliberalismus? Zur Rekonfiguration von Staat und Globalisierung im USA-China-Konflikt | PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft
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Tragic news of the death of Argentinian scholar Juan Iñigo Carrera, one of the world's most brilliant critics of political economy. JIC taught 'Capital' to generations of students, using Marx to help us understand the historicity of scientific knowledge and the necessity of our own action.
Mapping the Margins of Capitalism by Daniel Colligan a review of Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 2025) endnotes.org.uk/palabre/mapp...
on historical method from Simon Clarke aka the goat
#OtD 27 Apr 1998 a general strike in the private sector broke out in Denmark, involving a fifth of the country's workforce. Lasting for 10 days, union leaders panicked and agreed a compromise. This is a history of the dispute: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9879...
Now online: 'Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Two)' by Doug Greene and Harrison Fluss.
Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Two) - Historical Materialism
If we wish to thoroughly criticise Rockhill’s approach, we must confront the historical legacy of Stalinism. Throughout Rockhill’s work, there is an uncritical adulation of “AES”, past and present ali...
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Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · 3mo agoNow online: 'Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part One)' by Doug Greene and Harrison Fluss.
Good rebuttal of Rockhill’s conspiratorial reading of the Frankfurt School. What's missing is a discussion of Monthly Review’s longstanding disdain for the western working class and elite admiration for the political leadership of socialist states. Same old line, much less rigour — sad decline.
No, Western Marxism Wasn’t a CIA Plot
Gabriel Rockhill’s polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a...
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How can Marx help us understand growing "skills shortages" in the renewable energy industry? What role do class struggle and class collaboration play in the temporary resolution of this barrier to accumulation? Check out my new article in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers:
How can Marx help us understand growing "skills shortages" in the renewable energy industry? What role do class struggle and class collaboration play in the temporary resolution of this barrier to accumulation? Check out my new article in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers:
Now available for preorder - Unpaid by Matthew Cole "A searing and revelatory unmasking of the despicable reality of modern capitalism. Few books are able to make complex ideas so accessible – yet this is one of them." - @owenjones.bsky.social
Unpaid
Unpaid upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets. From unpaid overtime and under-the-table jobs to algorithmic exploitation, ...
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Vestas fires 440 workers at its offshore wind nacelle factory near Odense, Denmark. Amidst the catastrophe of war in West Asia, with disastrous consequences for the working class in Europe and the rest of the world, the demand for offshore wind turbines on the continent still isn't high enough.
Vestas vil fyre 440 medarbejdere på Fyn
Vindmølleproducenten Vestas forventer at måtte nedlægge omkring 440 stillinger på Lindø.Det oplyser Vestas til MarketWire.Fyringer sker på grund af en større justering, skriver mediet, og vil primært ...
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New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis? doi.org/10.1177/2754...
What's the point of conjunctural analysis? - Matthew Thompson, 2026
With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's...
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"Twenty-first-century tech elites may not even know of the old technocracy movement, but have revived many of its ideas. Gone are the pomp and spectacle of rallies, however, since popular persuasion is no longer needed."
Technocracy 2.0 | The Brooklyn Rail
As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now...
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For those interested in value theory and the critique of political ecology: This new article by André Novas Otero shows how rent can only be understood in terms of its double basis (natural difference and class power), and how this double basis helps explain the persistence of uneven development.
“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."
Matt Huber@matthuber.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨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👇👇👇
On the decline of process knowledge and its significance: "The point is not to romanticize traditional working-class occupations. But in the frenzy of digitalization, both right and left have forgotten that software presupposes hardware ... modern human life presupposes building and manufacturing."
Flamman@flamman.se · 6mo agoNär väst började avveckla ned sina industrier förlorade vi också den kunskap som behövs för att ställa om. Det är dags att återuppbygga den, skriver @jonasalgers.bsky.social. www.flamman.se/arbetarklass...
Tunisian Unions Reveal the Real Cost of Private Solar Energy in Tunisia - and Why Public Solar is a Better Option New research paper shows public solar would be far less expensive than the current approach, which privileges IPPs at excessive costs to the Tunisian people tinyurl.com/TUED-B169
"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."
Matt Huber@matthuber.bsky.social · 6mo ago“…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...
Samtidigt som USA blir allt mer auktoritärt blir vi mer beroende av deras energi. Ja Sveriges _elsystem_ är fossilfritt - men inte industrin och transporterna. I 2024 lade Sverige ✨205 miljarder kronor✨ på att importera fossil energi. Kunde lagts på annat
Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 6mo agoA 60% jump in EU LNG imports from the U.S. in 2025 managed to drive up greenhouse gas emissions on both sides of the Atlantic - in the EU from the burning of the gas, and in the U.S. by prompting a shift to coal-fired generation as prices rose.
"In 2009, the proposition that Reza Pahlavi might constitute a political alternative to the Islamic Republic would have been widely dismissed... This shift tells us less about the intrinsic strength of monarchism than about the erosion of alternative pathways for political transformation..."
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social · 7mo agoMy article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
As the imperialist confrontation between the US and the EU intensifies, the next major advance in Chinese capitalism is quietly underway. More powerful wind turbines mean less reliance on foreign fuel imports and a growing Chinese edge over Europe in the export of wind power technology.
'World's First' 20 MW Wind Turbine Installed Offshore
A 20 MW wind turbine was installed in the waters off southern Fujian, China, on 13 January as part of a research project. This is the first time a wind turbine with this output was installed at sea, b...
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Matt Huber against the dour, anti-political degrowthism of the contemporary Left "...if we struggle, and wrestle control of production away from the depredations of capital, there is nothing we can’t do. An energy transition is not only possible; it’s only the beginning of what we can accomplish."
Matt Huber@matthuber.bsky.social · 7mo agoMy favorite thing I've written in a while. At my core, I'm an energy history nerd (a disciple of Vaclav Smil's hardcore energy materialism). So Fressoz's book More & More & More gave me much to think about and criticize. jacobin.com/2026/01/fres...
"The transformation of America in the past 30 years into an 'hour glass' society, leaving only yuppies and the homeless in cities like Manhattan and devastating the life conditions of the urban working class and marginal Bohemia, is a major factor in the decline of reading." - Loren Goldner, in 1995
Carolin Amlinger@camlinger.bsky.social · 7mo ago40% der Amerikaner:innen haben 2025 kein Buch gelesen today.yougov.com/entertainmen...
I've been rereading this excellent piece today - it sheds light on so many of the vital debates within Marxist and heterodox political economy in recent years. I really recommend checking it out.
@alexismoraitis.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew article out with @histmat.bsky.social I revisit Marx's critique of the relationship between labour, technology and the surplus population and situate it within the context of capitalism's directionality
