This piece revisits Marx’s core ideas, breaking them down to reveal how individual capitalist pursuits exacerbate systemic instability, as competition drives labor productivity up while profitability falls.
By @davidharvey.org in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
buff.ly/qIwZ1v8
Fair enough!
This is bad but no singer level. Singer is this plus islamophobia and genocide apologism.
Recently read that the gas chamber was not a Nazi technology but a U.S. one developed in 1924 to execute a gang member named Gee Jon. They made other prisoners build a makeshift chamber, and several socialist prisoners were put in solitary confinement for refusing to help. That's where it came from.
Just under a year ago, I provocatively asked in a title whether Starmer's Labour could be considered far right
Recent events, between Mahmood's appalling asylum seeker policy and Starmer's own appalling comments against Mothin Ali make it sound ever less provocative...
reacpol.net/starmer-far-...
On Tuesday 17th March from 4.00 to 5.15pm, I'll be having a virtual book launch
We are keeping the event small so that it can feel more intimate and conversational, which means there will be a limited number of tickets available.
Register below
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Reading Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social has helped me appreciate that the field of eugenics was developed by Francis Galton (a wealthy son of bankers) very much as a way to justify emerging class divisions as resulting from a natural order.
I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before
Labour is a far right party
Stand up. You aren't dreaming.
Last night's storm should wake you.
What's your name?
Sorry to hear this and sending solidarity.
I’ll say it again: Matthew Goodwin is, to an extent, the product of an academic field that is dedicated to the study of racists but routinely refuses to seriously or deeply engage with other academic work on race.
Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!
My first substack post is live!
‘Neurocommunism refers to a political ontology in which forms of collective life are organised around neuroqueer sensory, communicative and relational practices rather than normative capitalist productivity and communicability’.
People are still emailing me assuming I work at the Institue for Medical Humanities. For the avoidance of any doubt: I do not and also do not attend the events there. Hope this saves some time!
I'm using a purely vibes based methodology but did think that was a fun album, better quality than most if totally ridiculous
Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words
I highly recommend giving this short article a read. By framing fascism as a psychological or cognitive aberration, not only do we uphold neuronormative structures, but we also fail to see how fascism is a response to challenges to ruling class power in a state of crisis and decay.
Out now - Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham
"Groundbreaking … One of feminism’s great chroniclers."
- Melissa Benn, Guardian
Hey ladies, hey fellas And the people that don't give a fuck All the lovers, all the haters And all the people that call themselves players Hot mommas, pimp daddies And the people rolling up in Caddies Hey rockers, hip hoppers And everybody all around the world
I did also enjoy this fully inclusive call out from Limp Bizkit covering every notable community as per Fred Durst's understanding
Good point! I think they are generally classified as such or at least proto, but they have their own sound.
Have spent several weeks doing a nonsystematic review of 2000s nu metal albums and have concluded that System of Down's Toxicity holds up really well as does most Rage Against the Machine. The rest is mainly terrible. You're welcome!
Addressing Islamophobia, Surveillance and Criminalisation of Neurodivergent Distress
Iman Hadya Niazi Khan
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/address...
like with the invention of dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and dryers: technology doesn’t save us labor, it only raises the standards by which our labor is judged. if AI makes you more productive, you will simply be expected to produce more!! with a smile!!
No workplace technology developed or utilised within capitalism has given us more free time outside of work, even if it allows genuine increases in productivity. Only organsied labour has achieved that. There is no reason, none whatsoever, to think AI will be any different.
I've published a new substack post on the ideological function of dismissing political opponents as 'mad' or 'insane'.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
This is a great opportunity and fwiw I was at this department for several years and found it to be a welcoming and supportive environment.
Yet to see an US war of imperial aggression that has actually been remotely good for the world, or even for the American people. And bombing the media focus away from the Epstein files may work temporarily but the underlying contradictions and decay they are trying to conceal will remain.
The earliest I've found is a 1971 Martin Baker essay. Interestingly he traces the shift to Enoch Powell's 1968 speech, which said nothing about biological hierarchies and instead used a cultural incompatibility frame. Insightful and worth reading today.
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/raci...
"I couldn’t forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy." 2/2
Osama bin Laden on his trajectory to 9/11: "The events that affected my soul started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced." 1/2
