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PhD Political Science | fellow @otago & @waikato | | political economy | social history of political theory | Kant | Website: https://drqerqay.com/ X: https://x.com/drqerqay
As a system, capitalism’s dynamism lies not in responding to demand, but in investing beyond existing demand into uncertain futures of profitability. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Dylan Riley, Blind Guesses — Sidecar
Capitalism and the markets.
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The striking idea in Dylan Riley’s new essay: What if the defining feature of contemporary capitalism is that political power has itself become a mechanism of value expansion—not merely something that regulates accumulation? theideasletter.org/essay/the-th...
The Thesis of Political Capitalism
The defining feature of our era is, for Riley, the rise of “political capitalism,” in which profits increasingly depend on political power to inflate asset values rather than on productivity-enhancing…
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While reading the critique of E. M. Wood’s Empire of Capital in this piece, I noticed that the same problem is addressed much more systematically and theoretically by Heide Gerstenberger (2010). katmanportal.com/e-m-woodun-s...
E. M. Wood’un “Sermaye İmparatorluğu”nun Çelişkileri ya da “Politik Marksizm”in Ekonomizmi - Katman Portal
Çağdaş emperyalizm tartışmaları üzerine eleştirel değerlendirmelere kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. Bu yazıda E.M. Wood’un Sermaye İmparatorluğu çalışmasında çağdaş emperyalizmi, soyut ve tarihötesi...
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🎓 Delighted to share that I’ve graduated from the IDEAs Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy. After my PhD, I undertook the programme to deepen my understanding the political economy of Global South. Grateful to the researchers from across the Global South. 🙏
Ten years after the death of Ellen Meiksins Wood, I wrote a short piece revisiting her method of social history of political theory — reading ideas under the historical pressures of social property relations and class struggle. @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/ten-...
Ten Years After Ellen Meiksins Wood: Reading Political Theory Under Historical Pressure - Historical Materialism
Ten years on, what would it mean to read political thought as a record of struggle, not a museum of ideas?
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Security guarantees rest on supply and logistics. If the U.S. must pull munitions from Europe and Korea to sustain a ME war, what do its global bases really guarantee? A hegemon confronting how decades of de-risking its military-ind base eroded its own power. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought
European and Asian countries worry the Pentagon is burning through munitions so fast that it won’t have enough to send the weapons they have purchased.
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Excellent piece! Below @steffenmurau.bsky.social 's four scenarios for the future of international monetary order:
Phenomenal World@phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 8mo ago“Those who want to translate their nativist politics into monetary precepts have failed to reckon with the credit-based, offshore, nature of money today.” @steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
⏰New interview📢 "Suzi Weissman speaks with historian Robert Brenner and sociologist Dylan Riley about the deeper meaning of Trump’s return to power." podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/j...
Jacobin Radio: Trumpism as Counterrevolution w/ Robert Brenner and Dylan Riley
Podcast Bölümü · Jacobin Radio · 27.01.2026 · 56 dk.
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📢POLS310 (Türkiye and Its Neighbours) is back! Explore modern Türkiye through political history, political economy & IR—linking nation-building, regime change, crises, and geopolitics across Europe/Middle East, the EU, NATO & Eurasia. Syllabus & readings: drqerqay.com/teaching/
In the hours after a regime collapse in Iran, inevitable to expect Israel/US strikes on Iran's military infrastructure to eliminate Iran’s future self-defence—echoing Israel’s attacks after Assad’s fall. thecradle.co/articles/air...
Air supremacy or war: Iran and the US in West Asia’s final countdown
The battle for control of West Asia’s skies has moved from contingency to reality. Tehran and Washington have activated the final pieces of their war architecture, fully weaponizing the airspace.
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1/3 My standout read of 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ is this working paper by @dsundal.bsky.social. It models worker cooperation as a statistical equilibrium problem across market socialist labour supply, occupational allocation in worker owned firms, and above target innovative effort. researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
📌In their new article, DylanRiley and Robert Brenner revisit the arguments first outlined in Seven Theses (2022) and extend them into a comprehensive explanation of capitalism’s long downturn. Here’s a breakdown🔽 newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
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🚨New Article Alert🚨 The Long Downturn and Its Political Results By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
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BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
📣My article “Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey” is published in the Special Issue “Migration Crises with Adjectives” in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Open access link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey
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🌍 In our new @textumdergi.bsky.social mini series, we discussed Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber. 📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle. textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
Climate change as class war: Interview with Matt Huber
Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War (2022, Verso) has sparked significant debates in Anglo-American circles with its class-based approach to the climate crisis. Rejecting consumption-focused narr...
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Some more "material"context to support this great article: Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · last yr.Should Ethiopian philosophy be practised from a universalist perspective – therefore taking Ethiopian philosophy to be part of the universal quest for wisdom – or from an Africanist perspective that sees Ethiopian philosophy as a means of cultural reaffirmation? buff.ly/qJb6kVb
1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
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This lecture is now posted on YouTube - see below. Final lecture in the series, on "Reorienting our way of seeing nature as a path to solidarity," is tomorrow night, local time www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...
Benjamin McKean@blmckean.bsky.social · last yr.5th lecture posted! Does addressing climate change require us to shift our understanding of “the market”? youtu.be/eLvJYDazz9Q?...
Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time
Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing & the US is imploding. Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?? Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Some comments: 📍This article offers an insightful analysis of Marx’s materialism and its impact on the history of political thought. Grounding political thinkers within their material contexts is crucial, and the discussion of historical materialism’s premises is key to that effort. 🧵
Mikkel Flohr@mflohr.bsky.social · 2y agoThere are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
Toward a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilities
This essay contributes to the development of a Marxist approach to the history of ideas based on Marx’s historical materialism. It first outlines historical materialism and its relevance to the stu...
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One of the best decisions in this article was removing the literature review to focus entirely on the strata of relationships that structure the dynamics between capital and the state—explaining the ontology of inter-state systems.
Endnotes@endnotesjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago*new article* Prolegomena on the ‘System of States’ by Raffaele Sciortino, Robert Ferro endnotes.org.uk/posts/robert...
🏓Behind the U.S. plan to leave NATO or the UN lies a scheme by military-industrial and tech oligarchs to turn these institutions into "privatized premium" security services, where other countries subscribe and pay to be included.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2y ago⚠️ Musk now advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
📢New Article🌟 Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity by Maïa Pal brill.com/view/journal...
