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Ticket link coming very soon. Meanwhile, though, if you're going to be in the Bay Area on April 17th and wanna see me and Jason Myles do a live podcast, save the date!

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Ash and Lucy chilling under the desk this morning while I talked to my Zoom Capital class about section 25.3 (on the "reserve army" of the unemployed). Presumably the subject didn't interest them because they're neither employed nor unemployed but functionally aristocrats.

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up. It's the transcript of the talk I gave at the Caucus for a Critical Political Science conference last Monday (based on a paper I'm writing w/Michael Sechman) responding to McCarthy, Desan, and William Clare Roberts on "class abstractionism":

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I was looking for an old article of mine (to find a hyperlink I remembered using there) and realized that the part of the title I was searching for isn't really enough to narrow it down--"Bernie is right about..." is a theme I've hit quite a bit over the years.

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My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers the Bezos diktat that WaPo writers are no longer free to criticize the free market:

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Just filed a @jacobinmag.bsky.social article on Bezos's diktat that nothing critical of "the free market" can be published in the Washington Post. Above and beyond everything else you can say about this kind of in-your-face display of oligarchic power, I just can't get over how pathetic it is.

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Yesterday (early morning L.A. time) I gave a guest lecture over Zoom to Global Labour University alumni on "The Rise of Authoritarian Regimes in Uncertain Times." 🧵

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Pretty interesting to rewatch from about 1:52 to about 1:57 in this debate in light of today's news about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post:

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Better late than never--this week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up!

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

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My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

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My latest for MSNBC is on Trump's scorched-earth war against organized labor (and how little focus Dems seem to be giving that issue compared to, say, USAID). www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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If your top priorities were making it easier for credit card companies to milk you for fine-print nonsense charges and even easier for your boss to fire you for joining a union, Trump has really delivered. I suspect, though, that there's a reason he didn't run on that message.

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay is up:

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Does Bouie actually think that Bhaskar Sunkara, for example, doesn't object to racism? If he honestly thinks so on the basis of some quotes rightly critical of corporate DEI bullshit, Bouie isn't a serious person. If not, this is an ugly smear.

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Yeah, gosh, one wing of capital has never fought with another before. Clearly an impossible, unthinkable scenario.

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I'm in Jacobin magazine today, writing about the dystopian press conference Trump just had, where his goal seemed to be to make the maximum possible mockery of the idea that he was ever "anti-war":

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Along with the illegal firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox (which brings the NLRB down below quorum, essentially shuttering it until the situation is resolved), this is a sign that Trump is going to go way more scorched-earth against organized labor than he did in his first term:

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My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

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Everyday Analysis reprinted my essay on why Vivek Chibber and his book "The Class Matrix" are Good, Actually:

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

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Really fun Capital Ch. 2 class last night at Cafe Mak.

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As, gosh, who could have possibly predicted.

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My latest for MSNBC:

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Had a delightful chat about imperialism, war criminality, and the hum and thrum of the American Empire/political decline and more on the postgame of the Give Them an Argument with @benburgis.bsky.social

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For those who saw last night’s postgame on @benburgis.bsky.social and wanted to follow Teen Driver, and you couldn’t remember the long list of letters, it’s @emgeeteevee.bsky.social also but his new EP No AC! teendriver.bandcamp.com/album/no-ac

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The predictably grotesque early weeks of Trump 2.0 are the perfect time to reread this book. If we're ever going to turn a corner we have to start from the understanding that the profound failures of the professional-managerial liberalism Liu skewers are what brought us here.

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This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up:

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