How We Do It

Adam Proctor

Democratic-socialist strategy, mass and class politics.

Episodes

  1. 2D AGO

    Climate Change as Class War: Matt Huber on Production, Power, and Proletarian Ecology

    Get access to the entire episode by becoming a sponsor member today: Patreon: https://patreon.com/hwdipod Substack: https://hwdipod.substack.com Show Notes We sit down with political geographer and author Matt Huber to dig into his book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso Books, 2022). Huber opens not with doom, but with a power analysis: the climate movement is losing because it's been organized around the wrong class. He breaks down how the professional-managerial class — NGOs, scientists, carbon pricing advocates — has dominated climate politics while ignoring the working class, which has both the numbers and the structural leverage to actually force change. Drawing on Marx's concept of the "hidden abode of production," Huber argues that climate responsibility is concentrated in the capitalist class that owns and profits from carbon-intensive systems — not diffused across individual consumers. The carbon footprint, after all, was a concept invented by BP. From there we get into why degrowth is a political dead end, how the Green New Deal was co-opted by means-tested identity politics and NGO capture before it could become a genuine working-class program, and why decarbonization is fundamentally an electricity problem — one that should be led by the skilled, unionized workers who actually know how these systems work. Huber makes the case for the rank-and-file strategy, points to the UAW reform caucus and the nascent CREW inside the IBEW as proof of concept, and closes with a simple directive: stop treating climate as a single-issue movement, rebuild the labor movement, and win power first. How We Do It is a socialist podcast focused on strategy, class power, and the political challenges facing the left today. Subscribe, share, and support the show. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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