🚨DEZE DONDERDAG!🚨 Ik leg uit wrm de arbeidersbeweging de republikeinse taal van vrijheid moet herclaimen. Ik toon dat ze de historische arbeidersbeweging gevormd heeft en dat arbeidersrepublikanisme deel kan zijn van een 21ste-eeuws socialisme tinyurl.com/cf6fkcr3

On 17/06 Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and I organize a workshop on @brunoleipold.com 's 'Citizen Marx' at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven. Of interest to those within the Benelux working on republicanism or Marxism. If interested, email me: [email protected] hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/events/

This month's newsletter was sent out rather late, but here it is, just in time 😅 economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/posts/econom...

SAVE THE DATE: 20 January, 2:15-5 pm CET I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin. Register here 👇 tinyurl.com/yp69y46p

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

A day later than intended, but here is our second issue of the newsletter: economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/posts/econom... Don't forget that if you want to add something to the newsletter you can email us ([email protected]) Or you can add it to the respective Google docs.

Never thought that writing the introduction to your PhD dissertation would be the most fun part. It allows you to go back to the intuitions that are ultimately behind the project. It is only at the end by going through convoluted discussions that you are able to articulate these intuitions clearly.

Just learned today that Belgium had a socialist republican party!

📖 The third 2024 issue of OEconomia is now online! You'll find a special issue on Rawls and Political Economy (in French): journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16...

Our first Newsletter is here! It can also be consulted via this web page: economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/posts/econom... ‼️Important if and when you subscribe: some people reported that the confirmation email ended up in their spam folder, do not forget to check it‼️

Sign up for the new Economic Republicanism newsletter which Louis Mosar and Sean Irving are releasing. economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027

Sean Irving and I created a newsletter for people working on applying republicanism to the economy. Monday the first issue goes out. We want to gain some more subscribers first. If you are interested you can sign up here: economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027 Sharing is appreciated!

Oxford University Press has made chapter two of Alan Thomas's Alfred Archer's and Bart Engelen's new book 'Extravagance and Misery' free until January 2. Of interest to all people interested in inequality. Follow the link in the blog post: ethics-socialphilosophy.com/2024/12/03/e... #inequality

I met Jonathan Israël today and I introduced him to your work @camilavergara.bsky.social , maybe I got you a new fan given that he was very curious about your work 😁

Black Friday #fencing #hema

my new article on wage slavery

I keep asking the older fellows of Kings who influenced this or that of Williams’s ideas and their answer is always no one. He only ever was counter-influenced (by his teacher RM Hare for example). This new book puts Alasdair MacIntyre is a major inspiration, good to know. #philsky #ethics

Marxists when Acemoglu & Johnson write about the dialectical relation between technology and power

This is the time of monsters, the time of Elon octopus, the new gilded age.

I am looking for the following paper: Arnaud BERTHOUD "Economie politique et morale chez Walras", ECONOMIES ET SOCIETES", 1988. (ismea.org/ISMEA/pensee... ) Could anyone help me with getting my hand on it?

New from me: a long essay on the paradox of self-emancipation and the history of ideology theory. Open access at boundary 2 online: #PolTheory

My colleague @lbuti.bsky.social organizes another cool conference in Leuven this week! More info here: hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/event...

In two weeks, I (and 3 others) co-organize a small conference about republicanism and markets in Leuven. The workshop is pre-read papers. If you want to join, send me a message! Speakers include @marxinhell.bsky.social @brunoleipold.bsky.social More info: hiw.kuleuven.be/nl/nieuws-ag...

Every time

First publication in a published book ever.

First publication of 2024, a review of Joseph Vogl 's *Capital and Resentiment*. Will be of interest for those thinking about the alleged corruption of the public sphere via social media and platform capitalism. journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16...

Final ride of the year

Liberals

تضامن مع فلسطين من بروكسل #ceasefireNOW

Luc Barter Moulaison, who just completed his MA with me here in @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social, has just published a fascinating and timely article on Louis Riel's utopian thinking in CJPS. I will quickly summarize the argument in the following posts. Polisky

My Pettit-Lovett-Roberts-(Tony)Smith-Brenner-Shaikh synthesis has been published: doi.org/10.1057/s412... In a sense it is a reply to this meme (twitter.com/JoshEakle/st...). The connoisseur of haute culture will recognize that the title is also a reference to a Rick and Morty meme.

Tells you a lot that the same guy pioneered financial speculation and metaphysics

Ik schreef deze brief naar enkele federale politici uit het hele politieke spectrum om ze aan te moedigen economische sancties te ondernemen tegenover Israël. Ik verzend de brief op 8/11, wie wil kan tegen dan de brief mee ondertekenen. Delen mag. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For my academic colleagues working in Belgian Universities docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Does anyone have some advice on good academic literature on the history of Hamas? I want a better understanding of them as organisation - and no I am not asking this because I sympathize with them or their actions, I genuinely want a better understanding of them as an organisation and their history.

As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.

Dankjewel Petra De Sutter, enige politicus in de Belgische regering die integriteit heeft over deze kwestie.

Paper in Nature Food shows climate, land use, water use/pollution, and biodiversity impacts of real-life UK vegan, vegetarian, fish-eating and meat-eating diets. All 5 outcomes strongly correlated with amount of animal-based foods in the diet. 🧪 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w

If you want to economically support local Palestinians consider buying a kufiyah from Hirbawi www.kufiya.org

Interesting blog post by Liam Bright

Real Competition "Greed is not a relevant category for explaining inflationary pressures, because firms in capitalist markets are compelled by competition to maximize their margins. Profits are hence a consequence of social relations and have nothing to do with greedy managers."

🎉🎉Article accepted for publication in Contemporary Political Theory 🎉🎉 My thanks to @marxinhell.bsky.social for his advise on the revision!

Meet Nour, the hottest Tom around. Shot on film with a Nikon F70

Interestingly enough, even among economists it is not the majority position.