J. Moufawad-Paul

So Alex Pretti did nothing wrong and abolish ICE//CBP/police/whatever tag they’re wearing

Yeah there's so much arrested development. If it's not in TV shows and movies, it's in fucking literature as you know. The whole YA category and the fact it is imbibed by late 20s and early 30s readers.

And I think it is great children's media! I think the art style is aimed at kids who are 7 to 10 and gives them a fun show with a bit more depth than a lot of shit out there, and also some good LGBTQ+ content. But if you're an adult without a kid invested in it and trashing Psycho-Pass, lmaooooo.

I can't imagine wanting to watch the new She-Ra if you're an adult without a kid. Only reason I enjoyed watching it was because I was watching it with my 8 year old daughter at the time. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise.

So I enjoyed it because when I watched it I was watching it at the time with an 8 or 9 year old daughter, and it is great it was aimed at her age group and she could enjoy it and I could enjoy he enjoyment. But interestingly enough, she is now 13 and doesn't like it anymore lmao.

I think the new She-Ra is a fun animated show but it is aimed at children, not adults. It is fun and good for children, but done well enough that the parents of the children watching it can enjoy watching it with their kids. That's what it is.

But the writing is really good? Psycho-Pass is known for having good writing I thought lmao. The only argument for it being "a fascistic show" is that it is depicting a fascistic future possibility… but as you and I both know it is a criticism of this possible future.

An interview with journalist, Max Blumenthal, five years ago. She mentions her family history and how her father was tortured by the Venezuelan capitalists class back when it was a US puppet state. Please, show these people the stuff that you and the Venezuelan working class are made of, Delcy. 🇻🇪♥️🔥

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

I’ve truly enjoyed reading this book. Derbent poses major challenges to conventional ways of thinking about Marxism. I’m considering writing a commentary on this as well.

There's a new one? I didn't think they were even together anymore. I got to check this out lol

Politics in Command: A Taxonomy of Economism - J. Moufawad-Paul - Foreign Languages Press Since the economic crisis of 2008, the concept of social class emerged again as a focus in critical theory. Temporarily eclipsed in the metropoles by the emphasis on other sites of oppression, the pos...

This book seems relevant to the discourse around the latest drivel spouted by the anti-woke socdems foreignlanguages.press/product/poli...

creepy

Yeah I thought she was hot in Labyrinth when I first watched it and I was eight years younger than her. Not the experience I have when I rewatch it, or any adult would ever have watching it as an adult.

What is going on here? Jfc this is creepy.

‘Clausewitz and the People’s War And Other Politico-Military Essays’ by T Derbent reviewed by Joshua Moufawad-Paul Since the early 2000s, Belgian scholar T. Derbent has been writing and publishing rigorous Marxist studies on Clausewitz and military strategy. Aside from a few essays and small books, however, most o...

My review of Derbent's Clausewitz & The People's War, updated and translated by @flpbooks.bsky.social, is up:
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2223...

On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal “A virus is haunting the globe, one of pandemic proportions, whose threat has necessitated unprecedented measures to forestall death and violence worse than the present crisis. But the cruelty, violen...

It's available here, but I can also send you a pdf of the last layout version the publisher sent us if you message me an email address (or I can just look up your uni address and send it there). Just let me know.
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Sounds like a great book project. During the lockdown I was part of a collective that wrote a book called "On Necrocapitalism" that was likely driven by the same concerns.

THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH vs. J. Moufawad Paul (round II) Brotherwise Dispatch, interviews, exclusives, theory, critique, aesthetics, philosophy, critical theory, black liberation, black radical imagination,

Radical philosopher A. Shahid Stover interviewed me about my recent book months back, and it is now up on his blog:
brotherwiseinterviewsexclusives.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

PS ... minor lits will be opening submissions for the month of August

all info here:

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This extension of the genocide in Gaza to a war on Iran should reveal how fucking gross the imperialist camp is:
moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2025/06/brin...

The world needs to boycott, divest from, and sanction the United States.

No I don't think I ever discussed it with you. I'd half-forgotten about it since it's from 2016/2017 I think? Definitely an abandoned project from the before times.

Since I wrote the initial draft the author has of course produced more work, some of it more major than what I focused on in that draft, and now I wonder whether I should return to it, update it, or if it is even worth releasing in some way. (Let alone finding a publisher.)

I have this longstanding work on political aesthetic philosophy, about an author I think is theoretically important, that I started working on years ago, got the rough draft up to 30,000+ words, and then stopped because I didn't know where it was heading a few years before lockdown…

Graphic of Walter Rodney with a quote from his final speech: “What I am trying to say is simply this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all walks of life, and more particularly by the working class who are in the majority. And it is a sign of the times, a sign of the power of revolutionary transformation, when a street force member is developed into a fighting cadre in a political movement.” Graphic c/o Josh McPhee https://justseeds.org/product/walter-rodney/

RIP Walter Rodney, assassinated on this day 45 years ago.

Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.

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A ★★★★★ review of Goliath (2022) According to Gramsci, Machiavelli wrote The Prince for the people to understand the ways in which the ruling class operated since those who commanded political power would not have to read a manual on...

After watching Yerzhanov's Steppenwolf, I watched his Goliath (which was included in the Steppenwolf Bluray), which was also brilliant:
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A ★★★★★ review of Steppenwolf (2024) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

Watched Yerzhanov's Steppenwolf and omg it was amazing:
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Genocide and ecocide together.

Something that we wrote as part of the On Necrocapitalism project in the wake of the of the 3rd precinct burning down, on "good" and "bad" protesters: necrocapitalism.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/c...