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Marx and morality and whatnot
I thought I’d write up some thoughts I have periodically about Marx and morality. I’ve occasionally gotten into arguments with friends...
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Sep 23, 20233 min read
some self-study plans
I’ve started a blog/newsletter thing, no frills and low standards, just trying to get myself to think more, specifically about the...
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Sep 5, 202311 min read
Socialism 2023 conference talk on social murder
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...
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Aug 7, 20236 min read
Registering my irritation
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...
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Jul 29, 20233 min read
"I get mad, I get mad, I get mad"
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...
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Jul 10, 20239 min read
Ideology and experience (Therborn and Thompson again, some Williams)
Tying together a few threads, the results are knot promising. [awkward pause, licks lips, eye contact held for too long] I was in a...
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Jul 8, 202312 min read
Talmbout condescension
A shitty first draft, as per. I was talking to - well, tweeting at - an online friend the other day (remember non-online friends? me...
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May 11, 20238 min read
Notes on some ideas in Open Marxism
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...
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May 5, 20232 min read
Where we feel the dissatisfaction vs where it comes from
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...
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Mar 15, 20238 min read
Notes on Simon Clarke’s Marx, Marginalism, and Modern Sociology
I just finished Simon Clarke’s book Marx, Marginalism, and Modern Sociology. (Clarke passed away recently unfortunately, Jack Copley...
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Feb 18, 20237 min read
Bonefeld notes and thoughts
I recently read two books by Werner Bonefeld, his Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy and his The Strong State and the...
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Feb 5, 20233 min read
hitting a wall - capital as barrier
In v3 of Capital, Marx writes that “Capitalist production seeks continually to overcome [capitalism’s] immanent barriers, but overcomes...
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Jan 29, 20232 min read
quick note on class
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...
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Jan 2, 202315 min read
Poor thoughts on The Poverty of Theory (get it?!)
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...
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writingtothink
Dec 30, 20226 min read
Stunned sad among pods
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...
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Dec 21, 202210 min read
some thoughts on Mute Compulsion and Health Communism, and disability by way of both
Some quick notes while reading Health Communism right after having read Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion. Going from memory, Mau makes a...
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Nov 28, 20223 min read
back to Therborn, eventually
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...
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Nov 26, 20226 min read
thinking about Sea of Tranquility
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...
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Aug 2, 202210 min read
Thoughts on Wright on class compromise
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...
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Jul 20, 20225 min read
Paused but unfinished thoughts on a bit of the second volume of Capital
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...
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