Richard Seymour writes about Your Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @leninology.bsky.social

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Book - #DisasterNationalism by @leninology.bsky.social The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization www.waterstones.com/book/disaste...

I signed this, obviously.

If investors all know AI is a bubble just waiting to burst, why put so much money into it? @leninology.bsky.social concludes that even the bursting will allow them more control. www.patreon.com/posts/age-of-plausible-141629688?post_id=141629688

Please join us Sunday, Nov 9, 12 pm at SOAS for this roundtable on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference. @leninology.bsky.social

“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust. We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social salvage.zone/the-atrocity...

@leninology.bsky.social on shameful shamelessness salvage.zone/the-atrocity...

It's time for a new patron reading group, and we've chosen 'Disaster Nationalism' by @leninology.bsky.social The gang gets started with the introduction, which means there is still time to become part of the group. If so, go to the Discord to join in. www.patreon.com/posts/140789...

Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.” Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇 jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...

The social industry 'rewards drama, hyperbole, losing one's temper, spontaneous rashness, asperity ... It's the opposite of a political meeting, where such behaviour is, not infrequent, but frowned on and shut down by a good chair.' (@leninology.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

On days like today, I’m reminded bleakly of this by @leninology.bsky.social from 2019: Farage’s appeal stems in part from his claim that you can do the very things that liberals say are impossible www.patreon.com/posts/287922...

4/ @leninology.bsky.social in @newarab.com.web.brid.gy is probably the most thorough and incisive analysis of Saturday’s march and its context I’ve seen www.newarab.com/opinion/brit...

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

2/ This by @trillingual.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk from June (ostensibly a review of @leninology.bsky.social’s important book, but much more than that) is a brilliant account of the new global and UK far right. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Vous pouvez à présent visionner la plénière "Conjurer le fascisme" de notre conférence Historical Materialism Paris, qui s'est tenue le 26 juin dernier, avec Veronica Gago, Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) et Salvatore Prinzi 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmz...

‘The lack of urgency on all manner of organising questions has been excruciating, and if there doesn’t issue from this a new debate, a new coalition, a new strategy, and a new set of tactics — then we deserve what we get’. Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/138879...

@leninology.bsky.social on how both Tories and Labour have for years conceded to and promoted the far right for their own ends.

Masked ICE agents pulled back from a raid in Rochester, N.Y. on Tuesday as about 100 protesters crowded the street outside the location shouting “shame” and “Gestapo." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

this by @leninology.bsky.social may fit the bill

‘If we can build among ourselves relations in which we mutually respect one another and treat one another equally, that's part of the work already.’ On the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets to discuss David Graeber’s life and work. Listen on our website: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

In the latest episode of the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss the life and work of anthropologist David Graeber. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

"The neoliberal revolution may have dismantled the planning capacity of the US state, but industrial policy lived on in the Pentagon." Always glad to see @triofrancos.bsky.social's analysis. Stop reading unserious "is Trump a degrowther?" think pieces and read this instead.

On the podcast: @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to survey David Graeber’s work, ranging from the theories of power Graeber developed from his early field research to the daring arguments of his co-written posthumous work ‘Dawn of Everything’. Listen: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering

‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’ @leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘“Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose,” he writes in one essay, “and when they deal with others who are equally free.” Just like your local bowling club or credit union.’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Graeber is at his most speculative, and engaging, as a theorist-practitioner of fun.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Graeber does seem to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist militants, or sitting in on horizontalist spokescouncils, arguing and taking field notes.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’ @leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"95% of organizations are getting zero return" www.ft.com/content/3391...

‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘“Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose,” he writes in one essay, “and when they deal with others who are equally free.” Just like your local bowling club or credit union.’ @leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Graeber is at his most speculative, and engaging, as a theorist-practitioner of fun.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘A persistent challenge​ to anarchism is that it can’t work because human nature “isn’t like that”. People are too selfish. Graeber responds by casting doubt on the idea that human nature is so simple.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Wherever he encounters what seems to be a structural limit to human freedom, he inquires into its history and class basis.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber in our latest issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘He would arrive with his notepad, ready to scribble pages of “thick description”. Then, like Keats’s naughty boy, he stood in his shoes, and he wondered. Why this action or that classification and not another?’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘David Graeber’s one-time partner has said he joked that 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 was his “sell-out” book – the advance he got from Simon & Schuster paid for a house. As a reader, this might be something to rue; as a writer, it fills me with optimism.’ @leninology.bsky.social : www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Chinese cars are taking the auto world by storm. But the US and Canada are being left behind. On a recent trip to New Zealand, I decided to see what we’re missing by taking a few for a spin. US automakers won’t be able to hide behind tariffs for long.

It is a joy to read this book by @leninology.bsky.social as it feels like a rare instance of someone with great political acuity and a flair for genuinely exceptional prose take seriously the ecological crisis and actually look deeply into evidence that we have about it

‘Graeber does seem to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist militants, or sitting in on horizontalist spokescouncils, arguing and taking field notes.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Throughout Israels genocide the UK has been operating surveillance flights over Gaza & Matt Kennard has been working on the story for all that time. Unlike the UK mainstream media, which has deliberately ignored it. But as Matt explains to @novaramedia.com here, that is now changing