marshall pierce

No More Peace Note on class struggle, fascism, and primitive accumulation

Check out this excellent blog post review of my book No More Peace by @marshallpierce.bsky.social

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The Social Forces Behind the MAGA Coalition The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance. Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’s successes and its weaknesses.

The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance.

Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’s successes and its weaknesses.

The Social Forces Behind the MAGA Coalition The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance. Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’s s...

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I interviewed John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social for Jacobin last week.

Excited to see my article on Italian municipal socialism in print in the latest edition of Jacobin. Check out the whole issue on municipal socialism here:

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When Fascism Destroyed Italy’s Socialist City Halls After World War I, city hall Socialists around Italy built an impressive array of welfare programs, schools, and libraries. The Fascist backlash soon showed the limits of their strength and the impossibility of relying on urban citadels of power alone.

After World War I, city hall Socialists around Italy built an impressive array of welfare programs, schools, and libraries.

The Fascist backlash soon showed the limits of their strength and the impossibility of relying on urban citadels of power alone.

Thank you for the kind words!

New article on Jacobin discussing Zohran, fascism, the limits of socialist municipal power: jacobin.com/2025/10/fasc...