In 2010, Malm joined the Socialistiska Partiet; he had been in contact with the party since attending a summer camp it ran in 1997.[8]
In 2014, Malm successfully defended his thesis Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, and obtained a PhD from Lund University.[9] He released a reworked version of his thesis as Fossil Capital, published by Verso Books.[10]
During a conference at Stockholm University in December 2023 on Palestinian resistance, Andreas Malm celebrated the "heroic armed resistance in Gaza". He thus expressed his “astonishment” and his “tears of joy” following the Hamas attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023.[11][12][13]
On the far right, you see this aggressive defense of cars and fossil fuels that verges on a desire for destruction, ... Denial is as central to the development of the climate crisis as the greenhouse effect.
In The Guardian, Brett Christophers wrote that Malm's research suggests that manufacturers during the Industrial Revolution switched from water power to steam not because steam was cheaper but because it was more profitable. In particular, steam allowed prime movers to be near cheap labor rather than bound to suitable waterways.[18]
In September 2021, Malm was a guest on The New Yorker Radio Hour, where he echoed the central claim of How to Blow Up a Pipeline by advocating that the climate movement use sabotage as a tactic and embrace a diversity of tactics.[19]
^Gladić, Mladen (5 August 2020). "Im Kapitalozän" [In the Capitalocene]. Der Freitag (in German). Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^Goldhaber, Daniel (7 April 2023). How to blow up a pipeline (Crime, Drama, Thriller). Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage. Chrono, Lyrical Media, Spacemaker Productions. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
^Malm, Andreas (2007). Iran on the brink: Rising workers and threats of war. Esmailian, Shora. London: Pluto Press. ISBN978-1-84964-343-6. OCLC654103854.
^"Past recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 10 June 2014. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2021.