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.
Another 'it's all in vol.3, bro' bro
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!
never gets old
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...
Expropriate
🔎 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
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“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
Hola Julio, tienes algo de Andalucía antes de la república? Anarquismo en el campo andaluz en la crisis finisecular, trienio bolchevique, etc.?
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.
Some off-the-shelf anarchist literature. Two volumes on the right have primary material. Better ask @juliomtzcava.bsky.social
what are you cooking?
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...
