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.

I have an essay in the latest issue of New Labor Forum. The whole issue looks great… especially the @cgmaisano.bsky.social article on the future(lessness) of conservative leftism. Thanks to @micahuetricht.bsky.social for the editing help!

One has to wonder for only a second why billionaires are spending so much on an agenda to divide the working class to figure out the answer.

On October 15th I will be at @redemmas.org in Baltimore with Ho-fung Hung talking democracy, finance, and how we can build the working-class power we need to take on the oligarchs and solve our underinvestment crises. Put it on your calendar and come out to join the discussion!

The housing crisis in America won’t be solved by more markets or endlessly tinkering with the fine print in the zoning laws. If we want our cities filled with working people rather than empty second homes, consider what the socialists of Paris are doing. From The Big Read at the @financialtimes.com:

According to the NYT...despite the fact that the vast majority of cases of domestic political violence is advocated and done by far right groups and individuals. Don't worry, its definitely not fascism. I fear for all our futures, we are on a tightrope that can snap any time.

We are in the middle of a reactionary right-wing backlash in the world's richest democracies and the billionaire oligarchs are throwing their money and power behind it. They win by dividing working people, creating in and out groups, and wrecking solidarity. We can't let them win.

You can pick up my recent book from @versobooks.bsky.social for up to 40% off as part of a back to school sale they are running. Sale ends today though, sorry for the late notice!

Great new episode tonight! Chatting with Professor Michael McCarthy about how Democrats can build a populist coalition! — LIVE: Trump SCREWS Americans as Dems FIGHT BACK | On Democracy youtube.com/live/81wJo929i… via @meidastouch.com

I am live on @ondemocracychannel.bsky.social with @fpwellman.bsky.social speaking about working-class politics. Tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wJ...

People should really wait at least three days before they put things in writing about this kind of stuff.

I can't help but think that Kash Patel going to Utah will hurt the investigation not help it.

Bomb threats against multiple Black colleges. Yeah, we should be concerned. It’s hard for me not to interpret that as the residual effects of a succesful polarization project whose principle aim was to divide the working class along lines of race, citizenship, and sexuality.

Many condemn political violence as an attack on the foundations of a democratic society. But we also have to ask why we have political violence in the first place. Surely it is an expression of our social alienation, weak social bonds, and lack of democracy itself. It is as much a symptom as cause.

have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

Zohran is the number one spice. youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY?...

I was recently reading about the rumors circulating about the sexual depravity of Marie Antoinette and Louise XVI right before the French Revolution. It's like we are living in a similar time, but the rumors are all true. This is a must read: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Me waking up at 3:30 am because of jet lag and getting lots of work done before the sun rises: "Yay productivity!" Me being hungry for lunch at 9:30: "Free me from this prison hell!"

"I'm not sure this is legal to be teaching because according to our president there are only two genders." ...

Israel is razing all of Gaza while innocent civilians are trapped in the sights of its bombs. Displacement is the logic of settler colonialism when colonists gain by acquiring land from the indigenous, rather than their labor. Genocide is the logic when there is no where left to displace them.

There is a noticeable pattern when it comes to Bitcoin ATMs. Install them in poor communities of color at the top of the market, gain some value from the buy in, then watch the sell off. This isn’t community wealth building, it’s vampire-like predation on the poorest members of the working class.

Tooze in the FT on the ways in which his idea of polycrisis in 2022 doesn’t seamlessly apply to the convulsions that shock our world in 2025.

The clash of civilizations isn’t between countries, it’s within them

Looking forward to this discussion with comrades that are familiar with the German socialization debates ca 1919 and the calculation debates a decade or so later. Excited to learn something new.

Today with @itsmccarthy.bsky.social at Humboldt University main building, details on zoom in quoted post for Non-Berliners :)

Many thanks to Copenhagen Business School and all the people that came out to talk about class, finance, and democracy. Now off to Berlin. If you are in the city and this looks interesting, join us!

"They understood the working class as segmented and their unity as potential rather than given. When movements and organizers lose sight of the reality of working-class differentiation, solidarity has no ground to stand on." While small as a fraction of income, electricity bills cross all segments.

Imagine allowing anti-woke social media to make you so unhinged that at 45 you move to Russia with your family and find yourself serving as a grunt in their war machine.

Otto Neurath on the failures of socialists to imagine realizable alternatives to capitalism. H/t @cominsitu.bsky.social

Many thanks to Copenhagen Business School and all the people that came out to talk about class, finance, and democracy. Now off to Berlin. If you are in the city and this looks interesting, join us!

"Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history." - @itsmccarthy.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

Excited to read [email protected] wrote about this excellent @hammerandhope.bsky.social article in the NYT, amplifying its message from @itsmccarthy.bsky.social and folks are spontaneously telling me about both. hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

It wouldn’t be a proper European experience without being yelled at by a train ticket checker…This time for keeping kid from being smashed by the train doors.

Nobody trolls the far right better than the far right.

What do you think Sean O'Brien?

What do unions do? On average they make the members about $870k more wealthy over time, new findings at Social Forces show.

Some argue that the key difference between leftists and liberals is that the former are committed to universal enlightenment values…As if the classical liberals weren’t the very ones defining those values! No, the difference lays in the left critique of political economy not some moral abstract.

Danish friends and comrades, I will be at the Copenhagen Business School tomorrow (Sep. 2 @ 10:30) talking about my latest book on class, finance, and democracy with @versobooks.bsky.social. The event is open to the public: Porcelænshaven 18b, 2000 Frederiksberg, room 1.18

Love to see that @jamellebouie.net engaged with my @hammerandhope.bsky.social essay on class, identity, black politics, labor and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in depth today at the @nytimes.com. I’m a bit blown away. Shared below as a thread:

Excellent article by @rymoteenspirit.bsky.social. It folds the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School into the class dynamism perspective. Hall made the case for a robust materialist understanding of culture, something class abstractionists fail at.

Wonderful evening at Zenit Radikal Forum in Stockholm with Mikael Omstedt, @holgersen.bsky.social and a room full of others discussing my @versobooks.bsky.social on finance and democracy and my recent work on class politics. Left publishing is thriving in Sweden!

The great age of oligarchy

In the Meidner archives and fascinated by how much of the left case’s carrot for business for the wage funds was about the positive impact on capitalist investment (capital formation) rather than wage compression (ie anti-inflation).

In my classes, verbal exams. Viva voce, AI is taking me back to medieval forms of assessment, baby.