I'm just writing to think

I thought I’d write up some thoughts I have periodically about Marx and morality. I’ve occasionally gotten into arguments with friends...

I’ve started a blog/newsletter thing, no frills and low standards, just trying to get myself to think more, specifically about the...

I gave a talk on social murder at the Socialism conference. The text I used as the basis for the talk is below. The talk is informed by...

My last post was something I submitted to the Des Moines Register that they didn't take. I've got another they didn't run which I may...

The point of this blog is for me to write to think new thoughts. This doesn't really fit with that but whatever. This is an op-ed I wrote...

Tying together a few threads, the results are knot promising. [awkward pause, licks lips, eye contact held for too long] I was in a...

A shitty first draft, as per. I was talking to - well, tweeting at - an online friend the other day (remember non-online friends? me...

For a while now I’ve been trying to focus my reading time on writers associated with Open Marxism. (Just now I don’t want to get into who...

I’ve had this thought kicking around for a while. In The Arcane of Reproduction as I recall it anyway there’s a discussion of different...

I just finished Simon Clarke’s book Marx, Marginalism, and Modern Sociology. (Clarke passed away recently unfortunately, Jack Copley...

I recently read two books by Werner Bonefeld, his Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy and his The Strong State and the...

In v3 of Capital, Marx writes that “Capitalist production seeks continually to overcome [capitalism’s] immanent barriers, but overcomes...

Going from memory, I’m inclined to say the concept of class in Marx’s writing, at least in his later work that most fully develops his...

I ended up down a rabbit hole - hell, a warren - of the British New Left and as part of that I wanted to write my way to some thoughts on...

I was talking with a friend today who said they had not stopped being thrown, stunned, by how much the brutality of the pandemic doesn’t...

Some quick notes while reading Health Communism right after having read Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion. Going from memory, Mau makes a...

For the past while now I’ve periodically thought to myself that I’d like to revisit Goran Therborn’s great and short book The Power of...

I thought I’d type a few words in response to Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Sea of Tranquility (might be a missing “the” at the start...

Found this in a folder, wrote it some time in the winter it to get clearer on something by Erik Olin Wright then forgot about it. In...

Last month I started going through volume 2 of Capital again in preparation for a reading group some people I admire are doing. I’m...