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

In @lrb.co.uk delightful wander through work of the late, great David Graeber with @leninology.bsky.social The headline? "Baseline communism happens wherever ‘no accounts are taken': giving a stranger directions, offering food to a guest, fixing friend’s car" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our summer double issue 47.14/15 is now online, featuring: Clair Wills on the trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) on David Graeber Adam Phillips on resistance And @tricialockwood.bsky.social visits her father. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

‘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...

"What is of value in any society, whatever the mode of production, will be judged according to the imaginative and ethical principles guiding communal life" is a great distillation of Graeber by @leninology.bsky.social.

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"The dissolution of grammar and the liberation of individual words make the difference between yes and no, between affirmative and critical positions increasingly irrelevant. What is more important is only whether a certain word... emerges in one or many contexts." - Boris Groys (cf 'Epstein')

dystopia: "put resources behind AI while it strips funds for actual public education. invest in AI while it strips funding for scientific research. sponsor creation of vast data center infrastructure but ensure AI will be propped up by energies of the past." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-...

Every word of this thread

*Astonishing* to see that it’s taken *two years* of completely open, calculated, systematic genocide before someone, anyone, goes on TV and tells one of these despicable shitehawks that the Israeli government have been lying about their crimes against humanity.

HSBC signed up to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and pledged to provide up to $1 trillion to help the net-zero transition back in 2021 Since then its public pledges have been repeatedly undermined by deals done behind closed doors Was HSBC ever serious about going green?👇

'...an example of misplaced concreteness.' @leninology.bsky.social's answer to a question on the Israel Lobby/tail-wagging-the-dog hypothesis contains this illuminating description of the State. I have too many Patreon/other subscriptions but his is well worth the low subscription cost.

Now available for preorder - Why Fascism Is on the Rise in France: From Macron to Le Pen by Ugo Palheta "This is essential reading for everyone in the crosshairs of the new fascism, and everyone who wants to fight back." - @leninology.bsky.social

Can't recommend enough that people read "Disaster Nationalism" by @leninology.bsky.social lots in this chapter also about resentment, paranoia and nihilism; growing cynicism towards democratic ideals