Andreas Malm: In Wilderness is the Liberation of the World

If you have been following Andreas Malm’s work, such as his latest book The Progress of This Storm, you’ll be familiar with his latest project of bringing realism back to environmental thought in combination with his view of Marxism. I don’t think that, at least in his book, the criticisms are always as precise as they ought to be, which leads to some easier dismissals of other scholars than one might expect. Nevertheless, even if you aren’t a Marxist (or his version of a Marxist) several of his critiques are in the ballpark: