Same Saturday night Max Weber. We definitely live in an age of high political vanity. As Weber suggests, what comes of it is violence.

There is no such thing as a coherent working-class ideology or culture that can said to be of that class, it's doesn't exist and never has.

The whole book is open access, and it includes new work on by Karen Ng, Jose Medina, Breno Santos, Hilkje Hänel and more! The topic is the intersection between recognition theory and epistemic injustice. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5...

now online! bsky.app/profile/comi...

Democratizing finance by turning everyone into a venture capitalist.

Authors find increase in cultural protest (left: war, enviro, + right: anti-immigrant, anti-EU, and both: Covid pro and anti-containment measures) across Europe and diminishing economic protests, which are typically led by unions. Where is European labor these days?

The Mamdani campaign, via its ties to DSA and working-class groups like taxi drivers, service workers, immigrants, knocked the last nail into the coffin of the economistic approach to politics. Now that the so-called anti-woke are more undead than alive, maybe we can finally understand the phenom.

Billionaires, so passé!

Let's see what happens after he makes a bunch of parents miss their kid's soccer game this weekend.

It's amazing that the reactionary Silicon Valley right think that authoritarian forms of rule will be more efficient. "With less than 24 hours to go...the Trump administration has not publicly shared a list.. or told many of the airports bracing for cuts how flights may be canceled."

I'll be teaching this whole debate in my grad seminar on class analysis next quarter. Genuinely excited to dig into this!

How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with @shahinvallee.bsky.social to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!

Great piece by @schooldaves.bsky.social on the straightjacket the bond market imposes on municipal socialism. thebaffler.com/latest/payin...

Without the night shift, there is no morning.

Coming up on Nov. 4 at 4pm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social & @cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in NYC!

I know this is a controversial one, but here is me and Gianpaolo Baiocchi making the case for voting yes on NYC ballot proposals 2-4. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/31/y...

I’m with Dylan on this newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

“Unbridled desire to work”…they really want your soul don’t they? Your labor, it seems, is not enough.

“Tax the rich, tax the rich!” It’s happening baby.

Pretty epic

People are funny

Politics as a vocation

Here is @christophsorg.bsky.social giving a brilliant talk on economic planning.

From @cominsitu.bsky.social's "Class as Moral Injury"

Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯 AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update. @veenadubal.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

Capitalism can’t help but undermine its own conditions for existence. Source: New York Times

More gemeinschaft less gesellschaft please.

Very excited about this event with @cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in New York City. We have distinct arguments about this tortured post-Late Capitalism we are living through, I’m genuinely curious to see where the conversation goes.

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the reconstructing critical social theory workshop happening this spring at UC Santa Cruz. We got something approaching 100 submissions, which makes the job of the organizing committee to whittle it down to 16 extraordinarily difficult.

If you're in Santa Cruz, come to this event next Thurs. Oct. 23rd! If I help with turnout, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social owes me a sandwich, in case you needed added incentive.

I'm looking forward to this!

Today is the deadline to submit to the Reconstructing Critical Social Theory workshop, which will be held April 23-24 in Santa Cruz, California. Get those abstracts in!

Imagine a similar story where democratic investment banks are instead reporting on the quarterly results of their social investment programs. It’s not sci fi. China’s massive investments into steel mills and infrastructure come directly from state banks not private capital. Now add democracy.

I’ll be giving a little seminar on how to think about class politics at John’s Hopkins University tomorrow.

Aching for a crisis

Will be at @redemmas.org with Ho-fung Hung this Wednesday. In Baltimore? Come on down!

Robert Dahl’s Who Governs? has not aged well.

then I left the facility and drove home a free man. I guess what I'm saying is it would be interesting to put the discourses about "performative woke" and "virtue signalling" next to the discourse about what counts as a "luxury belief"

Mamdani isn’t doing simple economic populism…there is no such thing as simple economic populism, it only exists on paper…political discourse is always aimed at stitching together a coalition by appealing to a mix of interests, shared morality, and fantasies about what the world might be.

The affected interests principle!

nice short post from @tompowdrill.bsky.social on something that’s become pervasive in the us pension world as well: the idea that we can “take the politics out of it.” (with reference to @itsmccarthy.bsky.social’s latest book)

Offe's "The Crisis of Crisis Management" is key the theory developed in my finance book called, "The Frankenstein Problem." There he did was Poulantzas couldn't. And you can't understand change without "The Two Logics of Collective Action." His theories are dynamic in the best possible way. RIP.

Sharp reflections on the the life, work, and politics of Audre Lord by @keeanga.bsky.social. The essay presents that legacy with clear eyes, contradictions and all. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A graphical summary of Nicos Poulantzas argument about the rise of totalitarianism in Italy and Germany in his book Fascism & Dictatorship. The graphic is from Dylan Riley's brilliant forward to the book. It is hauntingly familiar, and almost echoes in our own time.

It’s well understood how liberalism reveals its own limitations in the middle of an economic crisis. But what Ezra Klein’s recent writing shows so well is how it also reveals itself in political and ideological crises. In all crisis forms, accommodation, accommodation, and more accommodation.

Take a moment today to dive into the reality of how we are financing our own destruction, and what can be done: inthesetimes.com/article/fina...

Excellent reporting from at @inthesetimes.com that draws from some of my work. The labor movement still hasn’t got its head around the way the institutions of capitalism have changed between the 1930s and today. If the workplace needed democracy then, today pooled assets do as well.

Our political discourse is inhuman, literally

Really excited to read this www.harvardmagazine.com/social-scien...

Rudolf Bahro on Stalinist political culture seems a pretty accurate description of whatever stage of capitalist democracy we are currently in.