The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world.

Andreas Malm's provocative monograph I Fossil Capital i (2016) won the Deutscher Prize for 2016. Chapter 6 is "On the Use of Opposites", specifically "in praise of the polarisation" advanced by the materialist "property dualism" of nature and society, and the value of such binaries. In terms of current Marxist debate, Malm emphasises "the primacy of property relations over productive forces" in line with "political Marxism" (Note 13, p. 162, elaborated in Malm, [1], p. 279-292). [Extracted from the article]