Ten years after the death of Ellen Meiksins Wood, I wrote a short piece revisiting her method of social history of political theory — reading ideas under the historical pressures of social property relations and class struggle. @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/ten-...

Security guarantees rest on supply and logistics. If the U.S. must pull munitions from Europe and Korea to sustain a ME war, what do its global bases really guarantee? A hegemon confronting how decades of de-risking its military-ind base eroded its own power. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Excellent piece! Below @steffenmurau.bsky.social 's four scenarios for the future of international monetary order:

⏰New interview📢 "Suzi Weissman speaks with historian Robert Brenner and sociologist Dylan Riley about the deeper meaning of Trump’s return to power." podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/j...

📢POLS310 (Türkiye and Its Neighbours) is back! Explore modern Türkiye through political history, political economy & IR—linking nation-building, regime change, crises, and geopolitics across Europe/Middle East, the EU, NATO & Eurasia. Syllabus & readings: drqerqay.com/teaching/

In the hours after a regime collapse in Iran, inevitable to expect Israel/US strikes on Iran's military infrastructure to eliminate Iran’s future self-defence—echoing Israel’s attacks after Assad’s fall. thecradle.co/articles/air...

1/3 My standout read of 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ is this working paper by @dsundal.bsky.social. It models worker cooperation as a statistical equilibrium problem across market socialist labour supply, occupational allocation in worker owned firms, and above target innovative effort. researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

📌In their new article, DylanRiley and Robert Brenner revisit the arguments first outlined in Seven Theses (2022) and extend them into a comprehensive explanation of capitalism’s long downturn. Here’s a breakdown🔽 newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

🚨New Article Alert🚨 The Long Downturn and Its Political Results By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

📣My article “Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey” is published in the Special Issue “Migration Crises with Adjectives” in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Open access link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

🌍 In our new @textumdergi.bsky.social mini series, we discussed Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber. 📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle. textumdergi.net/climate-chan...

Some more "material"context to support this great article: Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.

1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

This lecture is now posted on YouTube - see below. Final lecture in the series, on "Reorienting our way of seeing nature as a path to solidarity," is tomorrow night, local time www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...

Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time

Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing & the US is imploding. Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?? Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some comments: 📍This article offers an insightful analysis of Marx’s materialism and its impact on the history of political thought. Grounding political thinkers within their material contexts is crucial, and the discussion of historical materialism’s premises is key to that effort. 🧵

There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...

One of the best decisions in this article was removing the literature review to focus entirely on the strata of relationships that structure the dynamics between capital and the state—explaining the ontology of inter-state systems.

🏓Behind the U.S. plan to leave NATO or the UN lies a scheme by military-industrial and tech oligarchs to turn these institutions into "privatized premium" security services, where other countries subscribe and pay to be included.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

📢New Article🌟 Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity by Maïa Pal brill.com/view/journal...

🔵Hello Bluesky!☁️ 🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍

🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍👇 bsky.app/profile/poli...

“Skinner, Wood, and the two-fold Problem of Context” by @magnusz.bsky.social and “Contradictions and Possibilities in Marxist History of Ideas” by me. Both chapters are from a recent anthology “Philosophy and the History of Ideas” edited by Mikkel Thorup for @baggrund.bsky.social

We regularly update our Starter Pack of the German-speaking community in political theory and history of ideas as well as a number of international accounts, mostly from institutions. So take a look at who has been added here in the last 3 weeks. We welcome suggestions for further suitable accounts.

Jobs, jobs, jobs... 🇳🇿faces not just a recession but an unprecedented downturn, with data slowly revealing the full extent. In the post-pandemic era, a low/no-growth, low-profitability paradigm dominates. Job growth & employment are now keys shaping public perceptions of politics.

post a photo of you from a different era. mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)

Here is the nucleus of the list of critical intellectuals on/from Turkey. The list will be updated. go.bsky.app/5KxbZUg

The initial “Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, etc.” starter pack is now full, so I have created “Part II,” which is growing rapidly. Please share if you find them helpful and if you think I should add someone or missed you, please reach out. go.bsky.app/5GR8AAt

I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk

You know we had to 😎

While watching I was surprised by Harvey's turn to AI from Bangladesh, but it is a crucial topic that demands public discussion, free from the influence of Muskmaniac X trolls, fanatics, and bots.

It is Easter Sunday on Blue Sky! So happy to see the community-building here. Resistance begins from the creation of communities that combine outward power and inward care and solidarity.

I started putting together a starter pack on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, and more. Please share if you find it useful and respond to this post if you feel like you should be added to the list (or removed for that matter).

Kia ora followers! I am a postgraduate political science doctoral researcher with a dual focus on political economy and political theory. I’ll be mostly sharing insights from my work in these two areas, discussions on global capitalism, the climate crisis, and Marxism political theory.