Sparta was an authoritarian state that suppressed all forms of cultural and political expression in order to brainwash its citizens into a life dedicated to war. Every year they carried out a murderous campaign against their slave population, the Helots, to keep them in place.

Now published: 'Alien Powers? Use-Value and Surplus-Profit in the Movement of Value' by Thomas J. Watson.

ICYMI: @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro , @beniuliano.bsky.social , and @alastairiles.bsky.social 's critique of land sparing and agricultural intensification is still live on our website.

Genocide

some reasonable words from our tech overlords

This could be your walk to work

Just reposting in case of interest. Applications close next week. Come to work with @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Jack Copley, Eugenia Giraudo and me!

nice labor is it surplus

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Recién publicado en la REC el monográfico "Espacio y economía heterodoxa: un diálogo interdisciplinar sobre las geografías del capitalismo" Con textos chulísimos para corroborar que no hemos asistido al fin de la historia. Seguimos pensando los espacios del capitalismo. 👉 www.upo.es/revistas/ind...

Economía Crítica en Acción III: Capitalismo, crisis y tendencias Uztailak 21 eta 22 Bizkaia Aretoa (Bilbao) @agarzon.substack.com @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @harveymurenow.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @earuze.bsky.social @tatianallaguno.bsky.social eta gehiago. www.uik.eus/es/curso/eco...

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🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP 📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 📘 Review by Prof. Berry: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3

“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social

On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

Next event from the Durham International Political Economy Group: Iker Jáuregui (Pompeu Frabra), Capitalism and Separation. Thursday May 29th. As ever, everybody welcome.

Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living.

Next event from the Durham International Political Economy Group: Iker Jáuregui (Pompeu Frabra), Capitalism and Separation. Thursday May 29th. As ever, everybody welcome.

¿China se está deshaciendo de la deuda de EE. UU.? A simple vista, parece que sí: el Reino Unido ya es el segundo mayor tenedor. Pero la historia real es más compleja. Pekín se prepara para la guerra financiera. Hilo🧵

Residential Capitalism reviewed by Alejandro Fernández Pérez

New paper on 🏠💥 "Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism" With Timothy Blackwell in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...

Great discussion yesterday with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social at Durham. The mighty IPE group strikes again.

Happy May Day!

The father of Regulation school has died

To be clear: Tony Blair’s championship of fossil fuels has no connection whatsoever with the very large amounts of money his institute receives from Saudi Arabia …

Very excited to be in the Guardian today!

I wrote a report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social on the current corporate push to privatise outer space - one of the few remaining commons of humanity (dixit international law)

Economist @graceblakeley.substack.com delivers the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture on capitalism & democracy @ Toronto Metropolitan University (@torontomet.bsky.social) on Tuesday, May 20. EARLY BIRD ENDS THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 25. Get your tickets NOW: 2025-ellen-meiksins-wood-lecture.eventbrite.ca

Upcoming event at Durham SGIA with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social. Come join us if you are in the area!

A reminder that the ruling class does not rule

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of international labor and working class history on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract (just 250 words) for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

@triofrancos.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social at the 'Green Capitalism' conference in Berlin

Well played.