Bruno Leipold
@brunoleipold.com
Political theorist @lsepoltheory.bsky.social. Author of Citizen Marx. www.brunoleipold.com
🗣️ JOB! Full-time, permanent Lecturer in Ethics and/or Politics at KCL (Dept of Philosophy) 📅 Deadline - 14 November 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX045/l...
Lecturer in Ethics and/or Politics at King's College London
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There's a lot of bad stuff on the internet and social media, but there is also a lot of good, enriching stuff that kids can benefit from Have a read of this and see how great the online world can be: www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
'He was an incurable romantic': The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft
A new documentary, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, explores the friendships a disabled boy forged in an online game – without his family knowing.
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Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 2mo agothe whole internet is social, which is both a key problem and a key reason why you can't just ban kids from "social media".
Our final ERC postdocs have now been advertised. These are with my co-PI @welpita.bsky.social at the University of Girona focusing on the empirical study of popular government
Yanina Welp@welpita.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 We are hiring! 2 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Girona on: 🔹 Participatory Constitution-Making 🔹 Direct Democracy, Constitutional Change & Recall 📅 Deadline: 11 June 2026 ⏳ Up to 4 years Please share widely! popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...
Appreciated this very thoughtful review from Amy Allen, including a critique that I now think is justified onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
In „Citizen Marx“ präsentiert @brunoleipold.com Karl Marx als kritischen Befürworter demokratischer Politik. Rezensent Timm Graßmann überzeugt die republikanische Lesart, vermisst jedoch eine Auseinandersetzung mit Marx’ entschiedenem Antiimperialismus: www.soziopolis.de/marx-als-bue...
'In "Citizen Marx," @brunoleipold.com presents Karl Marx as a critical supporter of democratic politics. Reviewer Timm Graßmann finds the republican interpretation convincing, but feels it lacks an engagement with Marx's staunch anti-imperialism:'
Soziopolis@soziopolis.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn „Citizen Marx“ präsentiert @brunoleipold.com Karl Marx als kritischen Befürworter demokratischer Politik. Rezensent Timm Graßmann überzeugt die republikanische Lesart, vermisst jedoch eine Auseinandersetzung mit Marx’ entschiedenem Antiimperialismus: www.soziopolis.de/marx-als-bue...
the world is stranger than you imagine the world is stranger than you *can* imagine www.ft.com/content/3b04...
Join us tonight for Chiara Cordelli's Brian Barry Lecture were she'll be arguing against the view defended by us radical republicans that capitalist is all about domination!
LSE Political Theory@lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 3mo agoMany thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...
Many thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...
What if capitalism’s deepest ill is not exploitation or domination, but #alienation? Chiara Cordelli explores capitalism as a "rule of none" at this year's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture. 📆 Wed 20 May | 6.30-8pm 📍 The Old Theatre, #LSE Tickets here👇🏾 www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...
Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None
An event hosted by the Department of Government featuring renowned political philosopher and public intellectual, Chiara Cordelli.
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"Labour politicians are not terminally stupid. It should be puzzling, therefore, that so many of them were happy to accede to the government’s ‘hippie-punching’ strategy, in which socially liberal, left-wing voters – the core of their support – have been repeatedly castigated and rejected."
James Butler · Labour’s Failure
Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised country...
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JK Rowling now being represented by a non-binary South Asian MSP named ‘Q’ is like something out of a movie. I can’t stop cackling about it.
"The current public discourse about antisemitism is defined by two claims. First, that Jews are victims of Muslims and the pro-Palestine left, and, second, that the proper response to racism is more aggressive policing." Typically sharp analysis from Barnaby Raine in @equatormag.bsky.social:
Good Jews, Bad Jews • EQUATOR
What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism
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A double Marx day celebration (yesterday)! Highly recommend reading Jan's book that I was lucky enough to read in draft
Jan Kandiyali@jkandiyali.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523
Today learnt that the supposed Oscar Wilde quote about socialism taking too many evenings was just made up by Michael Walzer in 1968 quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/03/e...
The switch to in-person exams as a response to LLMs is apparently now being met with the countermove of using smart glasses to cheat on the exams. I'm eligible for early retirement in four days, and not a moment too soon.
Feels historically incongrous that Robert Michels has an APSR publication
Rushing to submit my abstract to the 11th Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. 2-3 October 2026. Deadline is tomorrow. marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...
a close up of a muppet running very quickly with its mouth open
Alt: a close up of a muppet running very quickly with its mouth open
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoRemember to submit your abstract by 1 May! 🙅NO deadline extensions🙅
LSE runs a surplus and boasts of strong finances. Our senior managers are among the highest paid in the UK. Dismissing dozens of academics because of “reduced funding” is a choice, not a necessity. And they can’t even tell us which roles are at risk. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-acc...
UCU accuses LSE of being ‘evasive’ as redundancies planned
Institution begins consultation on job losses but union says it is in the dark over who is at risk
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Ben Rogers (@ben-rog.bsky.social) reviews my 'The Wealth of Freedom' and Bruno Leipold's (brunoleipold.com) 'Citizen Marx' for the TLS (paywall), situating them as contributions to the 'welcome revival' of radical republicanism. www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
The radical republican tradition
What does it mean to be a republican? In the US, it is to support the party of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. In the UK, it is to favour the abolition of
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Pleased to have reviewed @brunoleipold.com and @stuartgwhite.bsky.social contributionsto the burgeoning field of civic republican political thought. Two very different books but both illustrate the importance of this tradition to our increasingly unequal times.
The radical republican tradition
What does it mean to be a republican? In the US, it is to support the party of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. In the UK, it is to favour the abolition of
the-tls.com
My republican defence of the idea of wage slavery is now in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Wage slavery: A neo-Roman account - Tom O’Shea, 2026
The idea of wage slavery is often regarded with suspicion even among critics of capitalism. Sceptics note the dubious racial politics associated with its use, w...
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I do like how obvious it is that academics say "the ____ Turn" to avoid saying "the ____ trend"