This piece revisits Marx’s core ideas, breaking them down to reveal how individual capitalist pursuits exacerbate systemic instability, as competition drives labor productivity up while profitability falls. By @davidharvey.org in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social buff.ly/qIwZ1v8

Recently read that the gas chamber was not a Nazi technology but a U.S. one developed in 1924 to execute a gang member named Gee Jon. They made other prisoners build a makeshift chamber, and several socialist prisoners were put in solitary confinement for refusing to help. That's where it came from.

Just under a year ago, I provocatively asked in a title whether Starmer's Labour could be considered far right Recent events, between Mahmood's appalling asylum seeker policy and Starmer's own appalling comments against Mothin Ali make it sound ever less provocative... reacpol.net/starmer-far-...

On Tuesday 17th March from 4.00 to 5.15pm, I'll be having a virtual book launch We are keeping the event small so that it can feel more intimate and conversational, which means there will be a limited number of tickets available. Register below www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Reading Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social has helped me appreciate that the field of eugenics was developed by Francis Galton (a wealthy son of bankers) very much as a way to justify emerging class divisions as resulting from a natural order.

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before Labour is a far right party

Stand up. You aren't dreaming. Last night's storm should wake you. What's your name?

I’ll say it again: Matthew Goodwin is, to an extent, the product of an academic field that is dedicated to the study of racists but routinely refuses to seriously or deeply engage with other academic work on race.

Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!

My first substack post is live! ‘Neurocommunism refers to a political ontology in which forms of collective life are organised around neuroqueer sensory, communicative and relational practices rather than normative capitalist productivity and communicability’.

People are still emailing me assuming I work at the Institue for Medical Humanities. For the avoidance of any doubt: I do not and also do not attend the events there. Hope this saves some time!

I highly recommend giving this short article a read. By framing fascism as a psychological or cognitive aberration, not only do we uphold neuronormative structures, but we also fail to see how fascism is a response to challenges to ruling class power in a state of crisis and decay.

Out now - Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham "Groundbreaking … One of feminism’s great chroniclers." - Melissa Benn, Guardian

Have spent several weeks doing a nonsystematic review of 2000s nu metal albums and have concluded that System of Down's Toxicity holds up really well as does most Rage Against the Machine. The rest is mainly terrible. You're welcome!

Addressing Islamophobia, Surveillance and Criminalisation of Neurodivergent Distress Iman Hadya Niazi Khan www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/address...

like with the invention of dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and dryers: technology doesn’t save us labor, it only raises the standards by which our labor is judged. if AI makes you more productive, you will simply be expected to produce more!! with a smile!!

No workplace technology developed or utilised within capitalism has given us more free time outside of work, even if it allows genuine increases in productivity. Only organsied labour has achieved that. There is no reason, none whatsoever, to think AI will be any different.

I've published a new substack post on the ideological function of dismissing political opponents as 'mad' or 'insane'. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

This is a great opportunity and fwiw I was at this department for several years and found it to be a welcoming and supportive environment.

Yet to see an US war of imperial aggression that has actually been remotely good for the world, or even for the American people. And bombing the media focus away from the Epstein files may work temporarily but the underlying contradictions and decay they are trying to conceal will remain.

The earliest I've found is a 1971 Martin Baker essay. Interestingly he traces the shift to Enoch Powell's 1968 speech, which said nothing about biological hierarchies and instead used a cultural incompatibility frame. Insightful and worth reading today. www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/raci...

Osama bin Laden on his trajectory to 9/11: "The events that affected my soul started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced." 1/2

Travis LaCroix's new article arguing that ‘theory of mind’ research in autism qualifies as pseudoscientific www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... my commentary here, arguing that ‘pseudoscience’ might be a bit of a red herring www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I've often come across the claim that a fair bit of far right racism shifted to some extent away from a biological framing and towards a more culturalist framing some time in the late 20th century. I'm not sure who first proposed this and would like to read and cite them. Can anyone help?

The new conspiracy theory from Reform that the Greens won because people were going into booths and forcing family members to vote for them is really pathetic lol.

I have a new article published today! Written with my fellow OCD-ist. Accepted a couple of years ago, the piece envisions theoretical directions for critical OCD studies through approaching order/control through a social and experiential lens. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "This was the 127th target seat for the Green party. There is now no no-go areas for the Green party, theres no such thing as a wasted vote.. you can't underestimate how transformational this is for British politics"

Matt Goodwin, a man so personally repellant he reversed the creeping wave of fascism sweeping the globe.

I'm going to have to stop calling my cat a "fine ass dude" when I talk to him in case the baby starts learning to say that. Which is a shame as he really is a fine ass dude.

It’s my honour to speak about disability and Philippine philosophies with other Pinoy kapatid tomorrow at this event held by the Center for Southeast Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. Where: Online When: 11 am PST/2 PM EST/7 PM GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/cripping-f...

one of my favorite books of all time, i recommend it to everyone

Luddite John Booth was tortured by soldiers to give up his collaborators. Finally, a priest was brought, to take his confession and give him their names. He said, 'Can you keep a secret?' The priest said, 'Yes'. He answered, 'So can I' and then he died.

Polls open until 10pm in Gorton and Denton. It's Greens vs. Reform - every single vote counts. 🗳️ 💚

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The number of academics in the epstien files does not suprise me based on what i've seen. Academics are no better or worse than anyone else, but when you get elite institutions, money, and power, you tend to get abuse and corruption - and pressure to ignore it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Restore Britian (Rupert Lowe's new far right party) are really going for the "I've always fantasised about killing someone but have been unable to because of the law" vote

Nice to see Michael Parenti taking the place of Noam Chomsky for US anti-imperialism 101 stuff. Blackshirts and Reds especially is (sadly) now more relevant than ever. I'd still recommend it to anyone wanting to get a basic understanding of fascism and how it relates to capitalism and imperialism.

Review of Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality For Neurodivergent Marxism: Between Materialist Analysis and Escape from the Empire of Normality and CapitalismEscape from the Empire of Normality and Capitalism Arianna Introna scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

Fwiw i found this book by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan incredibly helpful for understanding Islamophobia from an anticapitalist perspective. www.plutobooks.com/product/tang...

I think the sucess of populism over the past decade has a lot to do with mass burnout and exhaustion. It's extremely hard to build and maintain mass movements at any time but even more so with mass imposed exhaustion. In that context movements centred around a tireless individual have an edge.

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

Many self-identifying autistic ppl lack formal diagnosis despite wanting it, & have higher unmet needs, unemployment & distress than many diagnosed ppl (as we found). UK is proposing to narrow diagnosis despite subtyping failures.👇 Rationing healthcare backfires! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

As so often what many autistic people say is harmful for us turns out to be more subtly harming everyone else too. theconversation.com/why-your-bra...

So many @thisisyourparty.bsky.social social media groups are full of open transphobia. Not sure what the conference vote to commit to trans liberation means but apparently not much so far.

Had not come across this concept. This is clarifying.

In my experience one particularly insidious way that health ideology functions under capitalism regards the ways bosses/management can actively make their workers ill, e.g. through selectively imposed stress, and then marginalise and punish the workers for exhibiting the symptoms of that illness.

In Nazi Germany women used to receive different medals depending on how many Aryan children they had birthed.