Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline was published on January 5, 2021, the day before the storming of the Capitol. Back then, the physical memory of being on the streets during the George Floyd rebellion loomed much larger than the phantasm of Nancy Pelosi kneeling in kente cloth with a promise of police reform. Hundreds of pages of policy recommendations from the Biden-Sanders unity task forces had made their way into the Democratic Party platform. Trump was out the door—almost. There was talk of reforming the Supreme Court; a commission was created to study the possibilities. Change was in the air. Or was it? Two months into Biden’s term, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, an extension of the prior year’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES). Direct stimulus checks went out again, and unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, and a range of tax credits for child and dependent care and sick leave were extended or bolstered.…