All history is etymology.

"Capitalism, as distinct from prodromes like Smith’s ‘commercial society’, rarely if ever spoke its own name in the nineteenth and for most of the twentieth century—the very term was an invention of its opponents."

newleftreview.org/issues/ii151...

Looking forward to being at UW-Seattle next week:

jsis.washington.edu/southasia/ne...

Jessie Childs · Resident Bean Expert: Leningrad under Siege Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

"The story raises important issues about the extent to which scientific progress can justify social neglect, about the ethics of collection and curation, and about our responsibilities not only to each other, but also to future generations." +anti-fascism

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A privilege to speak and listen at the migrant student-worker encampment in Brampton this weekend. It was Day 93 of their struggle for dignity, fairness and a new future. Make no mistake, this is the frontline against the growing racism and revanchism in Canada.

To Think With, Across and Through Marx “Rather than London, what if Marx had been in Lahore or Ludhiana in the mid-nineteenth century, and had to explain accumulation from that vantage point?” (62). This is one of the questions that animat...

An essay on the ways I engage with Marx in my book:

marxistsociology.org/2024/10/to-t...

Better not be any Tesla owners on here...

Farid, the farmer plants acacia trees, but wishes for grapes,

He is spinning wool, yet wishes to wear silk.