Wrote this for @journalspectre.bsky.social in response to Vivek Chibber and the broader resurgence of economistic materialism. Drawing on the concept of fetishism, I suggest such approaches revive errors Marx had already sought to critique spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-w...

I reviewed T.J. Clark's latest book for @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/the-...

This article was very helpful in illuminating why there has been a flowering of work on showing why the capital relation is reliant on other spheres.

I wrote about LeBron James' Israel comments. The article starts with me quoting an article I wrote 22 yrs ago about the aspirations of a 19 year old LeBron and then I look at how the 41 year old James ended up compared to his hero Muhammad Ali. Also, I feel old AF. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“I was raised in Detroit, baptized in Black history. Entering a Texas prison was a cultural collision. The ignorance wasn’t accidental. It was manufactured, systemic, deliberate... Writing became my resistance.“ @kwanetaharris.bsky.social

Read @hcampsm.bsky.social arguing against Vivek Chibber's reductive conception of materialism in favor of a broader Marxist understanding. First entry in a new dossier. Second entry coming out Friday February 27. spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-w...

"Much like the guff about Keir Starmer being a thoroughly decent man, you really have to wonder at the strategic blind spots and the implicit value judgments of anyone describing Peter Mandelson as charming." - @leninology.bsky.social

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Tithi Bhattacharya being interviewed by @vientosur.info.web.brid.gy . bit.ly/4b0i0VA

Tiffany Berruti: “From our conjunctural vantage, what if we treated the ferocious transphobia from the right—the ceaseless misgendering, murderous fantasies, and ever increasing violence—as a discourse both leaders and rank-and-file participants actively desire to be part of?”

"Naked class war is manifesting in an intense expansion of immigrant policing bodies," Justin Akers Chacón tells @cheatherton.bsky.social in the new episode of Conjuncture. This episode is dedicated the memory of the late great Mike Davis. Watch here: youtu.be/QBr98oEiUVY (1/2).

ICYMI: Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor's deep dive on NYC housing politics is still live on our website.

www.youtube.com/live/ToShkyo... ICYMI: You can catch the book launch for @freefreeforum.bsky.social 's Clara Mattei here.

When they ask you to censor yourself, get it in writing! "we do not need to comply with oral directives. We demand written directives."

Framing Frantz Fanon’s work as a blueprint for collective liberation, our video of the week rejects the traps of pacifist complicity, arguing that freedom demands a radical reinvention of the political towards “radical love.” Featuring Lewis Gordon at @asanewsonline.bsky.social buff.ly/o51rvDY

spectrejournal.com/gender-ideol... Read Tiffany Berruti writing on the social and sexual anxieties fueling the right's antitrans reaction.

Davis & Byron exalt real friends above other concepts of love. Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love—beyond even the mutual mothering-imperative—without an onus to heal www.publicbooks.org/is-the-cis-l...

💘Eros and Alienation💘 On Radicals in Conversation, Alan Sears talks to us about the relationship between alienated labour under capitalism and the formation of our gendered sexualities and desires: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Of...

The skin is the largest organ in the body, and Israel has the largest skin bank in the world. Mary Turfah describes the country’s ill treatment of Palestinian corpses.

ICYMI: @kwanetaharris.bsky.social 's interview with Uhuru Rowe is still live on our website.

groupthreat.com/p/what-s-the... Part two of Victor Ray's interview with Spectre's @grundrza.bsky.social is now available on Group Threat.

“The fundamental division in the housing debate is not whether you support or oppose higher density, but if you view the market as the solution to the housing crisis or as the cause of it.”

Did Frantz Fanon really have nothing to say about political economy? In ROAPE's #Fanon special issue Peter Hudis argues otherwise, uncovering Fanon’s Marxian insights into labour, socialism, and democratic liberation. buff.ly/jIjmwko

www.wrestlezone.com/news/1615793... Free Brody

ICYMI: Sandy Shan's piece on solidarity with Chinese academics is still live on our website.

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

bit.ly/4turRdy Tithi Bhattacharya on Epstein.

spectrejournal.com/municipal-so... Read Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenging technocratic Abundance-style solutions to New York's housing crisis and arguing for a rank-and-file tenants' movement.

ICYMI: @magalintzin.bsky.social 's interview with Geo Maher on the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro is still up on our website.

Ksenia Kagarlitskaya and Ilya Budraitskis explain the nature and evolution of Putin’s regime, the plight of its political prisoners, and the prospects for antiwar resistance and class struggle.

I talked with @victorerikray.bsky.social about the repression we’re facing at public universities here in Florida, where the state is attempting to impose a textbook on our intro classes, insisting that no published textbook complies with state law. Here’s Part 1. Part 2 drops next week.

@magalintzin.bsky.social 's interview with Geo Maher on the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro is now available in Spanish thanks to the comrades at @elsaltodiario.com . www.elsaltodiario.com/venezuela/se...

Read @kwanetaharris.bsky.social 's interview with New Afrikan activist and former Incarcerated Writer Uhuru Rowe about life after a life sentence. spectrejournal.com/the-impossib...

jameslivingston.substack.com/p/what-we-ta... James Livingston reviews Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History.

“The path to the Trump doctrine is long and winding, but to understand its most proximate influences we need only look back a couple of presidents—especially to their actions in the Middle East.” New from Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana:

In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

Thanks to David Camfield, @suzetski.bsky.social , Basil Farraj, and Geo Maher for writing for us last month. Links to their pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

www.academia.edu/161262616/Co... Marcel Paret and Spectre's @grundrza.bsky.social writing for Race and Class.

spectrejournal.com/knowledge-wi... Read Sandy Shan's analysis of the university's capitulation to Sinophobia and the securitization of the Academy.

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Alex Pretti and Renee Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy

ICYMI: @suzetski.bsky.social 's interview w/ Basil Farraj is still live on our website. You can also find susie's piece on Carol Crooks and the August Rebellion and other pieces on Zionism and the carceral state by Rana Sukarieh, Rawan Abdelbaki , Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social. Links 👇🏽

From the large windows of a skyway between buildings in downtown Minneapolis, it looked like some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators were in the streets, snarling traffic, lifting banners, and waving handmade signs in gloved hands, @Lfelizleon writes labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...

www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/from... Panagiotis Sotiris writing for @histmat.bsky.social .

In "The US Kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro," Spectre editors interview Geo Maher about Venezuelan national politics, oil and global capital, and the possibilities of international solidarity in these times. spectrejournal.com/the-us-kidna...

NEW: Mostafa Henaway (@mhenaway.bsky.social) on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many. www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...

Spectre's @grundrza.bsky.social reviews Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián's book 𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘴 𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 ( @dukepress.bsky.social , 2025) for @sfjournal.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

New from me at @therealnews.com: after ICE’s gun violence spreads into Portland, organizer ramp up the campaign to kick out the agency for good. therealnews.com/ice-in-portl...

ICYMI: David Camfield's review of Third Camp Socialism: A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson Reader ( @histmat.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.