Excited to welcome this outstanding group of speakers: @robin-c.bsky.social (FU Berlin) @kristingjesdal.bsky.social (Temple) @terezahendl.bsky.social (Augsburg) Michelle Meeks (Penn State) Matthieu Renault (Toulouse) Cecilia Sebastian (Wesleyan) Vanessa Thompson (Queen’s) @vcwills.bsky.social (GWU)

Workshop | Ethics and Politics in Marx 26 May · HU Berlin · 10–18h With @vcwills.bsky.social & @brunoleipold.com presenting their new books: Marx’s Ethical Vision & Citizen Marx. Comments by Gädeke, James, Müller & Wollner. Register by 16 May: [email protected]

Provocations by @ewmaroney.bsky.social , Peter Hudis, and @vcwills.bsky.social .

Nice joint review of @vcwills.bsky.social 's and my's book by @andrewhartman.bsky.social situating them as part of a "Marx boom" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Heat a joy to discuss @vcwills.bsky.social and I’s books with @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social @mirjam-m.bsky.social Dorothea Gädeke and Gabriel Wollner

It was great! Thanks to @vcwills.bsky.social, @brunoleipold.com, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Dorothea Gädeke, Gabriel Wollner and everyone who was there for the discussion.

Spectre's own @vcwills.bsky.social talking disability and her latest projects with Shelley Tremain for Biopolitical Philosophy. biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/05/21/d...

Now out! New issue of @philosopher1923.bsky.social on Marx & Philosophy (among other things) I had the pleasure of putting this together, with brilliant pieces from @schuringa.bsky.social, @tatianallaguno.bsky.social @vcwills.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Paul North and Sandro Brito Rojas

Economist, political theorist, and all-round bogeyman Karl #Marx was born on this date in 1818. Last fall Josh and Ray questioned his moral #philosophy with @vcwills.bsky.social from @gwu1821.bsky.social, author of "Marx’s Ethical Vision"—LISTEN: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/marx-a... #PhilSky

On the latest episode of Behind the News, @doughenwood.bsky.social and @vcwills.bsky.social mentioned this gem from Capital & it struck me as pertinent to Sam Altman’s recent promise/threat to release “a new [ai] model that is good at creative writing”

A lovely and inspiring interview of Vanessa Wills by @doughenwood.bsky.social on the latest episode of his Behind the News podcast, on the question of Marx's ethics. What does it mean, as a Marxist, to talk about morality, about how things ought to be? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

youtu.be/SXJuFr3OO_s?... Spectre's own @vcwills.bsky.social in conversation with @poorpeoplesarmy.bsky.social 's Matt Pillischer.

This is a eugenicist logic.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

Grateful for Vanessa Wills’ perspective here. It also reminds me to question my learned inner cop voice. If I don’t have anything constructive to say, it’s maybe time for me to listen and learn.

This post choked me up a bit. Please fight for Helen and people like Helen. Not just because I like Helen’s brain, which I do, but also because cancer trials can save lives and people’s lives are worth saving.

@vcwills.bsky.social (Historian Vanessa Wills) this morning Part one: “If someone says they're going to use a ‘shock and awe’ strategy against you, that means there's never been a more important time to try, if possible, to keep a cool head as you stride into battle.”

What @vcwills.bsky.social said. #KennedyCenter

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

I read (most of) an earlier manuscript of this a while ago, @vcwills.bsky.social was my professor and mentor in things Marx in grad school. Finally ordered the book and it is really an instant classic in Marxist philosophy. The most thorough and original treatment of Marxian ethics I’ve read

We never hear incarcerated people on mainstream news media. Credit to Ashleigh Banfield for interviewing them. Thank you, @vcwills.bsky.social, for pointing this out on FB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6-...

Absolutely fascinating interview.

"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

A thing I like about Wikipedia is that I can form the question, "In what parts of the U.S. do native English speakers use the positive 'anymore'?" and Wikipedia has an answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positiv...

There's a very real sense in which these three statements, found in the comment section of a Facebook reel about perfume, cover the full range of mainstream opinion among the citizenry of waning liberal democracies today

I've got a long flight ahead of me, and some work to do, but alsooooooo @vcwills.bsky.social

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

"Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything." — Bill Clinton The bourgeoisie's *actual* epistemology, expressed in its most rational form.

I think many leftists &/or progressives underestimate the extent to which Bill Clinton remains the most coherent & explicit expositor of the U.S. bourgeois liberal worldview [pejorative] youtu.be/Rif6KfyOfDE?...

THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast "EP. 645: THE ETHICAL MARX ft. Vanessa( @vcwills.bsky.social )Wills" Jason Myles, Pascal Robert, Madam Toussaint podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Dear @vcwills.bsky.social and colleagues, I am thoroughly enjoying this wonderful conversation, what a treat to happen upon this webinar! I am very excited to read your book in full 👏👏👏👏 #Marx #Ethics

On a feature of Smith and Marx on Alienation open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @vcwills.bsky.social

This is happening at 1pm Eastern today (6pm UK time). I'm super excited for it and I hope you can come! There's still time to register 💃🏿 tinyurl.com/2s4kekw2