My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

Going live in a little over 10 minutes (at 11:30 AM EST/8:30 PST):

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

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"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

A few more pictures from the Partido de Trabjo conference + the written version of my intro for @profwolff.bsky.social. The 2nd pic is the most meaningful to me--I got to meet one of my heroes (Ofer Cassif, who was almost expelled from the Knesset for speaking out against the genocide).

A bit of the opening of the conference yesterday. The beginnings of DSA meetings are never as good as this!

So, this was pretty cool: Yesterday I got to introduce @profwolff.bsky.social at a conference of socialist, communist and labor parties from all around Latin America (and several outside of it) hosted in Mexico City by the Partido del Trabajo:

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers Kamala Harris coming out of whatever hole she crawled into after catastrophically fumbling the 2024 election & babbling some gibberish about Donald Trump being a "communist" (+ how that gibberish manages to precisely reverse the message that could work).

Excited to be attending Historical Materialism this fall in London. Will be discussing G.A Cohen and liberal socialism, while previewing our forthcoming collection on analytical Marxism with @benburgis.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Logging some Rosarito Beach time.

My co-written article w/@drkuba.bsky.social on how bad a second Trump term might get came out exactly a year ago today. Sadly, I think we nailed it.

Meagan Day and I are back in Jacobin magazine today with a followup, now that (as we predicted in the first article) the Right is using Kirk's murder as a pretext for crackdowns on free speech:

I forgot to post this picture from the weekend.

My piece on American democratic socialism for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/soci...

Had a lot of fun chatting w/ @atldemsoc.bsky.social yesterday about Marxism, even if it did make me feel very old to hear a couple of these comrades in their 20s say they'd been watching me on TMBS "in high school." They had a Zoom link, so we should have the recording soon for GTAA:

@benburgis.bsky.social with @atldemsoc.bsky.social

Tonight at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St. in Atlanta, I'm speaking to @atldemsoc.bsky.social on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us." If you apply stern pressure, you might be able to twist my arm (and perhaps even twist @mattpolprof.bsky.social's arm) into getting a beer after:

Come get a beer with @atldemsoc.bsky.social and @benburgis.bsky.social today.

Tomorrow (Monday the 15th), I'm doing a talk for @atldemsoc on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us" at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St SW in Atlanta.

Good job @benburgis.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Speaking a lot of moral and strategic sense jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

The level of dehumanization on the internet today, from people cheering on assassination to cynically chomping at the bit for ideological retaliation before we even know the facts of the case, makes me glad ill be offline most of the day

Meagan Day and I are in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today, explaining why celebrations of political violence are so misguided—*especially* if you care about defeating the right and building a more equal society:

I've been profoundly depressed seeing so many leftists either joke about or celebrate the murder of someone for political speech. Glad to see this political clarity from @benburgis.bsky.social and Meagan Day in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up:

This week's Philosophy for the People essay is up--I take a break from the usual subjects to talk about the subject of my dissertation:

Michael and I have been working on this paper on and off for what feels like forever--feels really good to have finally finished revising it and sent the damn thing to the journal.

A little family history I've been looking at and thinking about while prepping to start teaching a Capital Vol. 2 class on Sunday: This is a copy my great-grandfather Morris (Moshe pre-Ellis Island) used when leading a Capital study group that included Walter Reuther's wife May.

Very excited that "Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century: Revisiting G.A Cohen" edited by myself and @benburgis.bsky.social now has a website and release date of Jan 11th, 2026! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

The live show Jason Myles and I did in San Francisco ("Is Trump the End of the End of History?") is finally up on YouTube:

On September 13th, I'm going to be speaking on a panel at the Jacobin conference in NYC on possible "blueprints" for a post-capitalist economy. The night before, on September 12th, there'll be a GTAA Meet & Greet Happy Hour thing at 6 PM at Bar Freda in Queens. (No cover, but order drinks!)

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social is a quick introduction to the basics of "luck-egalitarianism" a la G.A. Cohen, pitched at non-philosophers:

This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up:

Starting in a week! The reading for the first Zoom session of the Vol. 1 class will be the Preface to the First Edition + Section 1.1 and for the Vol. 2 class we'll ease in by reading Ernest Mandel's introduction to the Penguin edition of Vol. 2. Really looking forward to both.

I can finally reveal why @jacobappet.bsky.social left @benburgis.bsky.social GTAA show.

Good piece by @benburgis.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on performative maximalism. The left always risks loving "people" more than actually existing individuals, and that bleeds into the rhetoric sometimes used. jacobin.com/2025/08/left...

"Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, left-wing activists sometimes seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s just wasting precious time." My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

No actual Philosophy for the People essay this week, sorry--it's been a strange and busy week for many reasons--but I did a quick post with a bunch of details about the upcoming Capital classes:

Fantastic event last night w/Pelle Dragsted & Meagan Day. If anyone else took any photos, send them over! We do have a recording, so we should be able to put that up on the GTAA YouTube channel in a week or so.

It's on! patreon.com/benburgis

In this week's Philosophy for the People essay, my friend and frequent co-author Michael Sechman and I take a look at what Karl Kautsky's analysis of European colonialism and John Roemer's work on exploitation might tell us about the grim dynamics at play in Israel/Palestine:

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers the attempt of Democratic politicians to thread the needle by saying they're pro-Israel but anti-Netanyahu:

Webpage for the collection I edited with @benburgis.bsky.social "Analytical Marxsm and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century: Revisiting G.A Cohen" is now live. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

On tonight's GTAA starting at 8 ET, chat a bit about the Epstein clusterf*ck and what it says about our late capitalist hellscape, and then Meagan Day will be joining me to talk about...

Jodi Dean carpet-bombing whole armies of straw men here:

This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up:

On Aug 1, @pelledragsted.bsky.social will begin the U.S. tour for his book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, with events in DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Chicago, Madison, St. Paul, Seattle, and Culver City--all of which are open to the public!