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About Andreas Malm

Andreas Malm teaches Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World; Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize; and Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War (with Shora Esmailian).
  • Life

    The politics of life

    Originally published: Salvage on November 3, 2025 (more by Salvage)

    In early November 2024, something historic happened in Spain.

  • Strip mined land being recontoured by coal companies, Morristown, Ohio, 1974. Photo: Erik Calonius. via Wikimedia Commons.

    In defence of Metabolic Rift Theory

    Originally published: Verso Books on March 16, 2018 (more by Verso Books)  |

    One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.

  • Fossil Capital

    It is time to try out an “ecological Leninism” – Interview with Andreas Malm

    Originally published: Verso Books on October 7, 2019 (more by Verso Books)  |

    Andreas Malm interviewed about Marxist approaches to the climate movement.

  • Cracking earth in Cape Town, South Africa

    Channel the panic into political action

    Originally published: junge Welt on April 21 2018 (more by junge Welt)

    A conversation with Andreas Malm about the impotence of postmodernism in face of climate change and capital’s role in the destruction of nature.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Andreas Malm

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Andreas Malm

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Andreas Malm

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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