The reduction of collective life by both capitalist and state-socialist economies to a single criterion excludes the possibility of addressing human needs. Our podcast of the week instead theorizes a "multicriterial economy." W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social buff.ly/uiwiVoa

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

"People really need to be freed from insecurities - material, social and psychological - in order to be able to participate fully in a democratic economy that's making these choices." Beautiful words @abenanav.bsky.social.

Just saying, over on @techwontsave.us I discussed why this would be the case with @abenanav.bsky.social back in **March 2023** Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...

A strange feature of modern life is receiving birthday wishes from dentists, optometrists, and other assorted professionals and tradespeople in cities you haven't lived in for a decade.

I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...

Reading the ultra wealthy complain about a French wealth tax proposal (“It’s collectivism, it’s communism . . . it’s a fundamental attack on my freedom and right to property.”) brings a little warmth and joy to my otherwise cold and sad heart.

I really enjoyed reading @abenanav.bsky.social’s vision for a new kind of economic system — one where we have more authority over production and more freedom in our lives. It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.

fresh audio product: • Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy • Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

I really feel like this—wartime level government spending—plus the continuation of out and out elite plunder, is the main thing going on in the US economy these days.

On my way to Montreal for SASE 2025. We’ll have a running theme, throughout the conference, of new thinking about economics after the end of capitalism. I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there! newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social

@abenanav.bsky.social punctures the AI hype.

Check out @abenanav.bsky.social on AI for @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

Liberate Los Angeles!

800 UK legal experts, including former Supreme Court justices, demand the government sanction Israel and suspend it from UN to meet “fundamental international legal obligations.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

What is happening in Gaza is horror. The killing of innocent children there should rip our hearts straight from our chests. I am deeply shameful that my government supports this and that my society has allowed our elites to use Palestinian lives like pawn pieces in domestic and foreign politics.

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without social media. Me too. I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The taco trade is winning big: “Trump always chickens out.” What a loser! Sad.

Aaron Benanav’s (@abenanav.bsky.social) review of Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilizations, and Labor Reforms in Italy by Eloisa Betti (published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1215/1547...

The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality. @laramerling.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

This is an achievement for any country but a truly incredible one for the workshop of the world. If only we could unleash these capacities to electrify the whole world! It is so much more possible today than ever before.

Great discussion yesterday with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social at Durham. The mighty IPE group strikes again.

Uh oh.

We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.

Josh in Berlin, 2016, Cafe Commune, talking about riot strike riot

Stole this off Facebook

Upcoming event at Durham SGIA with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social. Come join us if you are in the area!

🚨Pre-orders are now live!! 🚨 We've also just released a few final tickets for our launch event— I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @quinnslobodian.com & @geoffmann.bsky.social Thanks to all who've signed up so far, we're excited to see you May 7. Pre-orders: www.break-down.org/issues/1

"Stuck with low growth, waning productivity and an aging work force, the world economy is in a rut. This shared economic predicament lies behind the political and social conflicts the world over." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Well done, @abenanav.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Excellent op-ed by @abenanav.bsky.social. The Trumpist mess isn’t just a crisis, but also a prime opportunity to push for bold redistributive policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

This is all I have to say.

Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future

Is this possibly true? Becuase its totally a believable account of how Western civilization comes to an end. www.theverge.com/news/642620/...

Very cool CFP from @abenanav.bsky.social and Susannah Glickman in International Labor and Working Class History "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence"

Deadline extended to Apr 15!

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of international labor and working class history on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract (just 250 words) for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

And this is an excellent technical discussion of the same problem and potential solution. @abenanav.bsky.social

“The Germans can’t sell their cars, so they will make tanks.” There’s never any money for the green transitions but there’s always money for war.

Bumming around Mexico City for a week. I haven’t been here in 10 years. Any recommendations?

Woman next to me at the airport gate talking loudly on her phone: “Girl, I was just in China. What’s the point of me going to a Chinatown?”