In our latest episode of the podcast, we had a wide-ranging discussion with Phil Neel about his new book "Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory," as well his recent writing on organization.

Over at @negationmag.com I went long on Everyday Resistance, Revolution, and the Rarity of Politics. Along the way I get some help from Marx, Lefebvre, Scott, Certeau, Ranciere, Badiou and of course the GOAT, Sylvain Lazarus. www.negationmag.com/articles/mar...

Breaking my Bluesky silence in order to let people know about the fact that I got to interview Michael Hardt. Check it out on our Patreon!

From our most recent podcast episode, Michael Hardt discusses the role of education in encampment protests from the 1970s to the present.

In Theses on Fascism, Cam W explores how fascism is a nihilistic politics where, since the world is already doomed, joy is derived from spiting enemies: www.negationmag.com/articles/the...

From Jordan Cooper (@anthropolitburo.bsky.social), a critical appraisal of Bolivia's Process of Change, the fall of the MAS-IPSP, and a breakdown of the country's upcoming first round general elections: www.negationmag.com/articles/my-...

In Theses on Fascism, Cam W (@cammunismm.bsky.social) conceptualizes fascism both as a tendency of capitalism and as an ideology predicated on nihilism and a fetishization of technology: www.negationmag.com/articles/the...

In Eternal Expectations, Taylor B. reviews Jia Zangke's landmark film Platform as a chronicle of the PRC's Reform and Opening Up period: www.negationmag.com/articles/aug...

In Eternal Expectations, Taylor B. reviews Jia Zangke's landmark film Platform as a chronicle of the PRC's Reform and Opening Up period: www.negationmag.com/articles/aug...

In Theses on Fascism, Cam W (@cammunismm.bsky.social) conceptualizes fascism both as a tendency of capitalism and as an ideology predicated on nihilism and a fetishization of technology: www.negationmag.com/articles/the...

From Jordan Cooper (@anthropolitburo.bsky.social), a critical appraisal of Bolivia's Process of Change, the fall of the MAS-IPSP, and a breakdown of the country's upcoming first round general elections: www.negationmag.com/articles/my-...

Our podcast returns from hiatus! We were joined by friend of the pod Mark, who talked about his time as a member of the Red Guards, cultism in socialist organizing, and the future of left-wing organization.

An essay by Nikoli Weir on humanity in an inhuman world through a series of aphorisms bridging together three areas of thought: the ontological, the social/cultural, and the revolutionary political www.negationmag.com/articles/in-...

An interview between Pao Ching-ming and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on the political-economy of the Philippines, the revolutionary movement’s setbacks and achievements, and future prospects for anti-colonial struggles www.negationmag.com/articles/rev...

Negation Magazine was founded five years ago during the summer of 2020. In light of this, the editors reviewed and revised our mission statement, which you can check out here, as well our updated submission guidelines. Send us your pitches! www.negationmag.com/pages/mission/

our latest from Mathias Fuelling: an analysis of the lessons and limits of Kohei Saito's recent work on Marx and degrowth www.negationmag.com/articles/wil...

This is a very good/thorough review and critique (in the constructive sense!) of Kōhei Saitō's overall project, in @negationmag.com www.negationmag.com/articles/wil...

@ajmcwhinney.com on why it's useless for Marxists to fixate on critiquing "postmodernism"

@exiledpistol.bsky.social analyzes the fraught relationship between organizational culture and broader societal trends

@ahwar.bsky.social on workers clubs, a social experiment in the USSR

compañera critiques individualism on the left and the conditions of organizing in the social media age

The final essay of our dossier, from A.J., analyzes strategic and tactical questions arising out of the student movement protesting the genocide in Gaza: www.negationmag.com/articles/res...

The eighth essay of our dossier, from @cammunismm.bsky.social, explores how to build unity within organizations and begins from the premise that division is the rule in capitalist society, and concludes with an approach to cultivating unity within organizations: www.negationmag.com/articles/div...

The seventh essay in our dossier, from Caelum, compiles analyses of several communist educational programs, encourages greater collaboration on education across tendencies, and aims to revive the ruthless criticism of all that exists: www.negationmag.com/articles/goi...

The sixth essay in our dossier, from Marine Tucker, outlines the role and practice of constructive criticism in transforming ourselves and the world, set against a contemporary organizing culture of silence, disposability, and inward-looking moralism: www.negationmag.com/articles/inv...

The fifth essay in our dossier, from Chloe Cannon, returns to the crucial question of how the pursuit of emancipation can produce unfreedom, in the process offering a critical account of a dominant form of contemporary left-wing organizational culture: www.negationmag.com/articles/cor...

The fourth essay in our dossier, from @ajmcwhinney.com, stages a critique of the use of “postmodernism”, arguing that this term actually obfuscates what Marxists are trying to critique: namely, liberalism in the moment of postmodernity: www.negationmag.com/articles/pos...

The third essay in our dossier, from @exiledpistol.bsky.social, discusses how common understandings of the relationships between individuals, left-wing groups, and social structures lead to practical problems for communist organizing: www.negationmag.com/articles/thi...

The second essay in our dossier analyzes the problem of establishing a “revolutionary” culture by examining two cases of revolutionary cultural innovations, Soviet architecture and Maoist Cinema: www.negationmag.com/articles/the...

The first essay in our dossier is a reflection on the seizure of Hinds Hall at Columbia University during the student protests last spring: www.negationmag.com/articles/no-...

Negation Magazine presents a new dossier on Organization and Culture with an introduction from our editorial board: www.negationmag.com/articles/org...

December 27

In our newest podcast episode, we talk about what it means to intervene in "common American life" in order to change it, and what the stakes are for emancipatory groups. Check out the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/negati...

Hello to our new followers! We're sorry for being woefully absent over here on Bluesky; we'll be sharing our work more regularly going forward. In the meantime, here is a collection of things we've released since we've last posted here:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DOSSIER ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE We are preparing a dossier, and we are looking for writing on organizational culture, or the relationship between culture and organization. Send us your pitches here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Negation editors stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We condemn the IDF & its barbarism against Gaza. As communists in the West, we feel obligated to speak out against this oppression, murder, and ethnic cleansing facilitated by our governments.

“Rather than casting the Arab Spring and George Floyd protests aside as historical aberrations which reinforce the need for a return to the ways of the past, we must see them for what they are: visions of a future that belongs to a united multitude.”

“to understand the laws of ideology is to be anchored… in the unshakeable resistance of revolts which are also and always the indomitable refusal of popular thought to submit.”

from @randomnational.bsky.social: an argument for replacing the traditional revolutionary categories (proletariat, working class, masses) with the controversial concept of the multitude www.negationmag.com/articles/mul...

new badiou just dropped www.negationmag.com/articles/on-...

The first English publication of a Maoist-era text by Alain Badiou on peasant rebellions, communist ideas, revolutionary knowledge, and the role of intellectuals. Translated and introduced by J. E. Morain www.negationmag.com/articles/on-...

We had @duncanastuart.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about his piece for Negation, "Ideas of Nature," and issues that plague the thinking-through of ecological politics in the contemporary era. Take a listen to the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/888174...

from @birdcom.bsky.social: an analysis of the liberal response to the COVID-19 pandemic within the United States, and a brainstorming of potential socialist strategies for breaking through this status-quo www.negationmag.com/articles/the...

Another recent piece of mine, this time on squaring ecopolitics and ecophilosophy with the idea of intellectual equality, published at @negationmag.bsky.social www.negationmag.com/articles/ide...

from @marineluvr.bsky.social in our latest newsletter, which continued on the theme of organization and culture:

wonderful working on this essay that engages Fukuyama, dialectical materialism, politics, and history with @negationmag.bsky.social https://www.negationmag.com/articles/the-specter-of-hegel

From Cam Cannon: a critique of historical teleology in political thought https://www.negationmag.com/articles/the-specter-of-hegel

from @birdcommunist.bsky.social, in our last newsletter which continued on the theme of organization and culture:

I'm not gonna talk about how we got on here before Jacobin did. but we got on here before Jacobin did