Coming in November from Johns Hopkins University Press. Pre-order available now: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The cruel irony is that Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

I wrote an article on the emerging “global war regime” – a condition in which war is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly generalized mode of governance shaped by geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, securitization, and authoritarian drift. portolan-journal.org?post=thinkin...

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COMING THIS FALL (from Johns Hopkins University Press)👇

Many thanks to Jack Graveney and Nietzsche Studien for this remarkable review. It's all too rare for an ordinary soul to find engagement of this magnitude and depth.

The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nietzsche’s ghost haunts the left, but what kind of politics does he represent? Our open-access article of the week historicizes Nietzsche’s anti-egalitarianism, situating his "aristocratic radicalism" as a politics beyond simple bourgeois liberalism. By Jack Graveney buff.ly/Rdxcvg6

More than a year in the making, thrilled to see this heater out in the world

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

Our secret-police immigration regime exists to maintain a vast servant class that lives in terror without rights. Unions threaten that.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE recently conducted a raid of farm workers, seemingly focused on pro-union worker leaders. On Friday in New York the federal agents stopped a bus and, armed with a list, appeared to single out those who have been doing union organizing for years. theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

UPDATE from the attacked Gaza aid ship: They're trying to enter Maltese territory because of damage to the ship, and fears of a possible second attack. The Maltese Coast Guard is allegedly blocking them. "I am just following orders from higher authorities," an officer is heard over the radio.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

Alarming footage from the attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. Between coughs & alarms, volunteers aboard the Conscience ship show the fire & gaping hole left in the ship's hull by drones. "We got bombed…I don't know what to say…" "The fire is still going on over here *cough*"

Video from February, when Sen. John Fetterman got in an argument with a pilot about wearing his seatbelt so it was visible. “Sir, if you want to go to Pittsburgh, it's simple: you have to follow our instructions or you're gonna be asked to get off the airplane.” “We're not asking much.”

I understand that the University is dying, and will eventually be replaced by some kind of new world of for profit online job training modules, but in the interregnum do we really have to endure the morbid symptoms of programs in "Leadership studies" and "Entrepreneurship"?

Hey welcome to Silicon Valley, all our biggest companies are hollow extractive schemes, none of our tech works, and everyone hates us. That will be $20 billion pls

First event booked for the tour, more dates to follow PELLE DRAGSTED — NORDIC SOCIALISM: THE PATH TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY - WITH JOE GUINAN — DATE: Fri, 8/1/2025 TIME: 7:00pm PLACE: Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008

Huntington gardens, desert garden Colored pencils (Derwent lightfast) on sennelier oil pastel paper

Being over 40 is mostly about not drinking but still waking up with a hangover

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“As the extreme right is attacking liberal institutions from within, critical scholarship has the urgent task to provide an alternative perspective on what it means to abolish in order to reconfigure” - if not now, then when? Join us in Aarhus in October!

Danish Society for Marxist Studies@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨ We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION. The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025. As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme! marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

Great talk by William Banks on the Scandinavian welfare society (among other topics)

Fall 2024 Book Talk | The Great Debate

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Dear Marxists💕 I just started working on a book on capitalism’s influence on our most intimate spaces and personal relationships with the worktitle “Kapitalforhold”. But I could use some help from my clever followers (thnx #DanishMarxism!) due to not having alot of people to burden with my projects

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed. Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide

Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.

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I just got called a Maoist in an article rejection. I guess I've arrived?

The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue. The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum. Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?

While serving main character has been fun, we are also a serious academic organisation that organises a yearly conference of Marxist and radical scholarship in Denmark. This year, we had some 50 great papers and more than 150 registered attendants, and next year will be our ✨10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE✨🎉

As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, here’s a promise. To those who helped facilitate Israel’s genocide - Western politicians, media outlets, and journalists: We will not rest until you are held accountable for the crime you helped commit.

Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year. It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land. It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells. Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

Sorry but moving to another app does not make the horrors in Gaza disappear into thin ‘blue’ air. Proud to have co-authored this solidarity statement in support of our students who are bravely exercising their right to protest despite being criminalized in the press. Free free Palestine 🇵🇸