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Sharing an essay I wrote a few years ago on the American revolution on this July 4th. "O, let America be America again — The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the land where every man is free." - Langston Hughes buffsoldier-96.medium.com/the-birth-day-…

New article with Filipe Carreira da Silva in the British Journal of Sociology on how black anticolonial thinkers in 1930s-60s Paris advocated a more robust conception of common humanity to base a universal humanism that opposed oppression without resort to particularism! doi.org/10.1111/1468-4…

Trade unions are essential as centers for organization of the working class, but they are inherently limited. Unions can only at most retard the general downward pressure of capital upon the conditions of labor; they cannot reverse its direction. In merely economic struggles

Oh God, I really wasn’t expecting to find out this way that a major name in my field’s just died in an accident! I mainly knew him from the debates about public sociology and from his writings on the labour process. RIP Michael Burawoy

Just because the present is an "inescapable totalising capitalist hellscape" doesn't mean the USSR was the solution or represented some alternative blissful future never taken. It collapsed for a reason. This is such a conservative, even reactionary, way of thinking.

Matthew Legatt, Senior Lecturer in English & American Literature University of Winchester is back with series two of his Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. It starts with an interview with Diletta De Cristofaro, an expert on post apocalyptic novels. Find it here tinyurl.com/4vecf3b9

Having a fab evening watching the Royal Opera’s Turandot broadcast from Leatherhead Theatre in Surrey, England! #RBOTurandot

Happy Star Wars Day! #MayThe4th

Yeah, and that's a problem for socialism if it's just the expression of the discontents of the déclassé middle class/petit-bourgeois within capitalism, really aspiring for a more 'progressive' capitalism than the movement of the working class to overcome capitalism.

Not only am I not excited by Mamdani, the excitement of others leaves me feeling mildly disappointed in humanity as a whole

Marx in the 18th Brumaire makes a remark that even simple bourgeois reformist demands get stigmatised as 'socialist'. Nationalisation has been a tool of capitalist political economy for ages. One can argue over the efficacy of state run supermarkets. But it ain't communism.

"Today, even the talk of a “dirty break,” which — despite its regressed character and questionable premises — registered at least some awareness of the need to organize a politically independent force for socialism, seems to have vanished."

In my first piece for Sublation Magazine, I discuss my deja vu watching leftists pour out enthusiasm for Zohran Mamdani, the conflation of socialism and progressivism, and how the left has apparently learned nothing from the failures of the Millennial Left! sublationmag.com/post/stuck-in-…

A brilliant article, HIGHLY recommended! > In a degraded echo of the Popular Front, the Millennial Left liquidated itself in the name of anti-fascism. Faced with the threat of Trump, it became little more than the “radical” wing of the Democrats. In the end, it failed even to

"In a society that is continually disintegrating...one moment, left-wing identity politics has the upper hand; when fatigue sets in, right-wing identity politics takes over; and when people have had enough of that, the baton is passed back to the left. And so it goes on."

Ana T. Fabbri There is already immensely common confusion of socialism with capitalist statism, or of socialism in general (and hence of Marxism, that is, revolutionary proletarian socialism) with conservative-reactionary state socialism. That is common among avowed "socialists" and "leftists"

This is a great critique of the Left's reaction to the Zohran Mamdani moment by Dan Davison via Sublation Magazine sublationmag.com/post/stuck-in-…

If you haven’t yet read my article in Sublation Magazine this week, which critiques the left’s response to the Mamdani Moment, it’s available here! sublationmag.com/post/stuck-in-…