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Although poor in quality, this postcard captures what would become the offices of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) that was a clandestine detention centre during the “dirty war” of state terror in Mexico (the low-rise edifice on the right) on Plaza de la República #20.

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Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social

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Just as Mario Tronti wanted to engage with Marx in his own time, how do we approach Operai e capitale (Workers and Capital) on the basis of capitalism today? Great new @ppesydney.bsky.social post from Laisrian Flynn @versobooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social @harrycleaver.bsky.social

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Most surprising - a stamp from Bulgaria featuring the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico issued to celebrate the 1986 World Cup! More on this beauty and beast of a monument in an open access article in Journal of Latin American Studies 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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To be published next Tuesday, a new and fantastic commentary by Laisrian Flynn on Mario Tronti's classic Workers and Capital coming out of the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social

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Updated blog post on the commencement time and date of the Past & Present Reading Group's reading of Heidi Gerstenberger's Market and Violence. Before we know it will be December! But it will take us that long to get there with this text!

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Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, our latest article in EPA builds on the emerging analysis of state capitalism to advance a class-relational account of development banks in Mexico and Chile during the mid-twentieth century hothousing for development

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Confronting the Far Right – Contesting the Reform Party, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/05/conf... @morton.bsky.social

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New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

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Anyone written on economic planning and Pat Devine’s Democracy And Economic Planning, with the paper title “Devine Intervention”?

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'Hawes Street (Tunstall)' Paint Print heading off down to a Stoke in Devon today!

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A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇 www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...

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On the recent challenges to the foundations of dollar hegemony from Stephen Miran to Donald Trump by Madison Cartwright @mkonings.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/trump-versus...

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Great overview from @elifuzgoren.bsky.social on her new book Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe, Uneven Development and Hegemony with @manchesterup.bsky.social - the latest in the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series! @abieler.bsky.social

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Our reading of Tronti’s classic is to be completed this week for the Past & Present Reading Group. Watch out for a commentary on @ppesydney.bsky.social coming soon! www.ppesydney.net/past-present...

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"the time may come when the whole bourgeoisie will be nothing but a childless rentier-millionaire" -- Joseph Schumpeter, The Crisis of the Tax State [1918] @garethbryant.bsky.social

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Fantastic tourism poster from 1947 featuring the Monument to the Revolution

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What is the political economy of fascism and the labour process in Andor? @therealelliotde.bsky.social delivers the insights! @chrishesketh.bsky.social

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New arrival that I’m reading this week! @isanchezprado.bsky.social @criveragarza.bsky.social #cuerpoterritorio

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Looks amazing. Get your subscription wallets out!

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Teaching can lift the mood upwards as much as research success. Today was one of those days! 😃

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Not bad company to get my lecture going this week on Uneven Agrarian Development and Revolution, with Fred Halliday and @georgelawson.bsky.social — what a great one liner the latter has penned

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Your appointment reading for today!! 👇🏽👇🏽

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What is the next text that has been selected for the Past & Present Reading Group?

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Love this jacket design by Stephen Moskof for Monthly Review Press. I wonder what other covers he did for radical books?

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Wonderful to receive a copy of this excellent book by @elifuzgoren.bsky.social about Turkey's decades-long struggle over its relationship with the EU @morton.bsky.social @cssgj.bsky.social

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Out now! Elif Uzgören The Political Economy of Turkey's Integration into Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony Progress in Political Economy Series @ppesydney.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

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Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton (@morton.bsky.social), "Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question", Progress in Political Economy www.ppesydney.net/henri-lefebv... Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, Historical Materialism (open access) brill.com/view/journal...

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marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2200...

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What was the Lukács Question? Sometimes referred to as a “debate” or an “affair”, it was a resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre, as @stuartelden.bsky.social and I reveal in this latest open access article in Historical Materialism

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Now that was quick! Book received @feministonmarx.bsky.social

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Marco Rubio: “Frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia” Dmitry Peskov: “We have said that this is actually a conflict between Russia and the collective west. And the main country of the collective west is the United States of America.”

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Blood and capital in Piedras Negras

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The Betrayal of Ukraine, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @morton.bsky.social @catherinegegout.bsky.social

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David @morton.bsky.social, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. brill.com/view/journal...

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Today on @ppesydney.bsky.social we lead with Elliot Dolan-Evans' blog post on his awarding-winning AIPEN prize journal article focusing on the gendered dimensions of energy liberalisation in Ukraine, published in @ripejournal.bsky.social -- Congratulations Elliot!! @therealelliotde.bsky.social

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The Holocaust, Gaza and lessons from history: Genocide runs deep in German society, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

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Updated blog post on 'What is this thing called passive revolution?' with a link to my article in Latin American Perspectives (2024) on that theme, which seems to be getting some traction.

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Focusing on his new article in Globalizations, @abieler.bsky.social blogs on what approach to political economy can grapple with the internal relations of the multiple global crises confronting twenty-first century capitalism.

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