“In actual history, it is a notorious fact that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, in short, force, play the greatest part. In the tender annals of political economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial.” — Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, p. 874. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

Every time it seems that Mark Carney uses the word 'sovereign,' what he actually means is 'Canadian corporate profits.' I am compelled to share more from @nolore.bsky.social's post this morning: noraloreto.substack.com/p/carneys-ai...

But if I read Marx I have to google what things mean that’s called learning. I understand it’s scary but you can do it. It’s a process but adding new things to your brain can be fun

In such moments, Karl writes, we are compelled to “view the past and the present with the eagle eye of thought in order to become conscious of our real position.” #Marx open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

“ #Thought must locate itself within the real, not above or beyond it. The #rationalstructure is #immanent to the object's own movement, not imposed on it from outside.”

New from me just in time for Marx's birthday. Exploring the letter Marx wrote to his father from Berlin University in 1837. beerandfreedom.substack.com/p/marx-in-su...

EARTH IN 2050: A STARK VISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/04/e...

Comrade workers! May Day is coming, the day when the workers of all lands celebrate Their awakening to a class- conscious life, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation.

The world’s largest oil trader, Vitol Group, reported making profits about of about $2 billion in one quarter on the back of volatility induced by the Iran war. Households have effectively been taxed to subsidise the profits of big finance. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/households...

from @criticofpolecon.bsky.social Mark Carney announced a Canadian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and it will probably suck. open.substack.com/pub/criticof...

The ecological thread running through Marx's work is very clear when you actually read him. Crazy how misread he is on this issue. mronline.org/2026/04/23/m...

Exploring why the social brain of humanity is capitalism's next enclosure. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

Very helpful episode with a lot of useful and practical advice. Thanks for this, Blueprints/ARC.

“ #Capitalist #production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all #wealth - the soil and the worker.” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

Quick hit on an underappreciated aspect of Marx's work. Exploring why capitalism is structurally incapable of maintaining a sustainable relationship with the earth. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

More audacity, comrades! More confidence in the strength of the revolutionary classes, especially the proletariat, enriched as they now are by new experience; more independent initiative! All the signs indicate that we are on the eve of a great struggle.

Suggesting that we use Nestle's infrastructure for social good is a logical and realistic position. Allowing a private company to wreak havoc with the product of our collective labour is the radical one Our common sense has been inverted beerandfreedom.substack.com/p/it-was-alw...

“The #societies that most of us find ourselves living in are very effective at limiting our ability to think beyond the existing social architecture. This is not an accident; it is constant and deliberate, working at such a level that makes it difficult to notice.” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

I started a new series on Muskoka. Marx in Muskoka 01 - Consumed by a Reflection open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

"The NDP recently proposed a bill to close the U.S. loophole, but a majority of Liberal MPs voted it down over concerns that such regulations might incur the wrath of the American government and harm Canada economically." www.readthemaple.com/did-global-a...

My short piece on Marx's concept of Species-Being and the ecological implications can be found on Monthly Review Online. mronline.org/2026/03/31/m...

NDP, Liberals, and Conservatives currently fighting over a sliver of the spectrum so small it could fit through a needle's eye. Even the compatible left is working overtime today

No one is protesting Palantir in Canada, even though the OPP has been using it for years, and the federal government is using it too. The Prez of Palantir Canada is our former ambassador to the US, and he chairs the company building the "spa" at Ontario Place. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

there's a new issue of New Feeling out in the world!

Michael Löwy: Neo-fascism is the best term to describe both the continuity and the novelty of the 21st-century far right. climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/28/t...

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spox Baqaei on Canada's new sanctions: "Appeasing bullies & fascists does not stop them؛ it only whets their appetite." The Canadian government will happily follow along with the US because we have leaders who never developed spines and love money.

Marx in Moments 03 - Species-Being. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

More from the Privacy Commissioner on FOI: “Taking away Ontarians’ access rights— retroactively and into the future— denies them the information they need to understand government decision-making at the highest levels & hold their governments to account.” www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

“One of the world’s leading ecosocialists offers a sweeping journey through metabolic-rift theory, a powerful and highly readable account of Marxist ecological thought and the science of the Earth System." -Adam Hanieh climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/25/m...

Someone just called me a democrat on Substack and it genuinely hurt my feelings.

The fucking audacity of liberals to say that communism always fails while they see capitalist nations band together in an act of intentional starvation against Cuba is so bloody maddening.

"We’ve got to protect ourselves against the communist Chinese that are infiltrating our country…” – Doug Ford

3 minute read on Ontario's FOI rollback and the role of the state. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

“The contradictions between the prevailing feudal order and a rising capitalist one are integral to Romeo and Juliet. Without this, the Montagues and Capulets would not have existed nor have entered a blood feud.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #philosophy #shakespeare #friday

Marxism can still change the world mronline.org/2026/03/20/m...

"Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a #contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity." - #Hegel h/t @beerandfreedom.bsky.social

The real comrades are steadily separating themselves from the mass of fake bitches

On the Environment and Climate Change cuts. Remember when Carney ran partly on climate credibility - the whole sustainable finance framing? From @nolore.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

The Carney government's actions would certainly lead Trump to believe he can do anything he wants to Cuba, as they have refused to even condemn the oil blockade, let alone take meaningful action in solidarity. Canada must send oil to Cuba now!

Horrific. Death to US imperialism The condition of their electrical grid is inseparable from the decades long embargo and current blockade www.reuters.com/business/ene...

On Marx's social ontology: open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...

"I haven't read Marx's Capital, but I have the marks of capital all over me." - Bill Haywood

today is long COVID awareness day, so i'm resharing this piece i wrote last year for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about the long term effects COVID is having on music workers in the seventh year of this pandemic. www.newfeeling.ca/covid-is-sti...

Workers! You see how mortally terrified are our ministers at the working people acquiring knowledge!

Urgent! The Liberals are trying to force through Bill C-9 this week. It is being cynically advanced as an "anti-hate" bill but but will criminalize protest in large areas of major cities. Our full statement: communist-party.ca/defeat-bill-... Sign the petition! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Holy shit. This is a fucking disaster.

I found this very helpful in thinking through the temporal dimensions of credit and capital. From @criticofpolecon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/criticof...

Absolutely horrific. Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate. C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation. A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

Marx in Moments 02 - Alienation. 3 minute read on Marx's concept of Alienation open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...