My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

How to Hold a City Hostage Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.”

@stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

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Democrats - New Politics Kim Moody offers a critical analysis of the Democratic Party, captured by wealthy donors and a vehicle for capitalist class interests.

You can read Kim's other recent work in venues like @tempestcollective.bsky.social and New Politics.

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Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction? – Spectre Journal Kim Moody breaks down what the affordability crisis really means—a crisis of social reproduction created by the radical inequality of wealth.

Read Kim Moody challenging the "affordability" framing of the cost-of- living crisis, arguing it obscures the class-based assault on workers' social reproduction.

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Not a ton of people read this, and most who did interpreted in terms of a campist/anticampist debate that i don't particularly care about.

However, when I wrote this review my main problem with the Losurdo/Rockhill line

was that it's moralization of theory would push discourse on the left further towards the kind of partisan infighting that makes theoretical and strategic reflection on imperialism impossible.

That, and its just bad theory.

“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

Excellent review in @journalspectre.bsky.social by @johncke.bsky.social of my book, "We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System." A thoughtful critique, as he points out both the strengths and limits of our historic socialist political work in Seattle.

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⁩“Energy is at the heart of it" w/ Laleh Khalili YouTube video by Makdisi Street

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@lalehkhalili.bsky.social talking to the brothers on Makdisi Street.

“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

My review for @journalspectre.bsky.social of 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' and the important account it offers of the struggles that were taken up during #KshamaSawant’s ten years as a socialist city council member in Seattle.
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Marx's Ethical Vision Abstract. “The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has a

Marx's Ethical Vision is available at @academic.oup.com .

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@karenkyng.bsky.social reviewing @vcwills.bsky.social 's Marx's Ethical Vision ( @academic.oup.com ) for Constellations.

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@journalspectre.bsky.social, an interdisciplinary publication of the revolutionary left, has partnered with Exact Editions to offer institutional subscriptions worldwide.

The Exact Editions platform offers cross-device, IP-authenticated and remote access. 📰

Now out from beyond our paywall: read Hector Rivera's analysis of the settler colonial roots of the ICE occupation of LA and call for Chicano Internationalism.

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Our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social writing for @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social .

US Imperialism: Projecting strength to cover up weakness - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung As US hegemony crumbles, Trump lashes out at countries such as Iran or Venezuela in order to hit his true target - an every strengthening China

From Iran to Venezuela, US aggression reveals a crisis of hegemony. As China rises, what McNally calls the “Trumpian model of capitalism” revolves around military invasions, tariff wars, and manic deal-making.

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We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...

Jonathan Rosenblum's We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System is available from @orbooks.bsky.social .

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“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...

@johncke.bsky.social reviews @jonathan4212.bsky.social 's "We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System" ( @orbooks.bsky.social ), reflecting on the wins, losses, and lessons from Kshama Sawant's tenure as a Seattle Council Member.

Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination (with Chris O'Kane, Sam Fisher, and Rob Knox) YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

video of my book launch is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhv...

Managing Contradictions at the Border Outsourcing Coercion Between Bangladesh and India

You can also find this piece, and more from Elaine, on their substack.

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ICYMI: Elaine Wik's analysis of Indo-Bangladeshi border conflict is still live on our website.

Spectre editor Camila Valle writing for The Latinx Project.

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Tomorrow (4/16)!

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Register 👇🏽

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The Generosity of Fredric Jameson – Spectre Journal Robert T. Tally pays tribute to Fredric Jameson's tremendous generosity, that is, the late theorist's drive to both know the world and change it for the better.

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Happy Birthday to Fred Jameson, who would have turned 92 today.

Read @roberttally.bsky.social 's 2024 memorial to Fred.

Toward an Iranian Socialism – Spectre Journal Robab Vaziri traces the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of imperial intervention, arguing for a democratic and socialist Iran.

Read Robab Vaziri trace the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of foreign intervention into Iran, arguing that that prospects of Iranian democracy and Iranian socialism are deeply intertwined.

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X post from Wendy Wang of the Institute of Family Studies: The real U.S. fertility story is the massive drop in fertility among women in their 20s. The birth rate for women in their 20s has fallen nearly 40% over the past two decades. This is the group that has carried the most weight in determining the direction of the overall fertility rate. As we all know, women's prime fertility window is in their 20s, not 30s or 40s. Relying on women to catch up their fertility in their 40s is not going to help much. @FamStudies [plot showing childless women's odds of ever having a child, based on NSFG surveys of 46-50-year-old women in 2015-2023. The curve declines with age, accelerating at age 30.

It really gets my goat that these people are all in on promoting the idea that your fertility (or fecundability, if you're a demographer) plummets after your 20s. Listen. Plots of birth rates by age that show the highest rates in the 20s *are not* evidence of "prime fertility" being in your 20s.

America, War, and Imperial Decline in the Gulf The US–Israeli war on Iran is the latest phase of the United States’ long-war in the Persian Gulf, a fifty-year project to secure imperial power in a region defined as a “vital interest” since the 197...

Toby C. Jones writing for @jadaliyya.bsky.social .

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