Bruno Leipold
@brunoleipold.com
Political theorist @lsepoltheory.bsky.social. Author of Citizen Marx. www.brunoleipold.com
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A characteristically thought-provoking review by Nicholas Vrousalis focusing particularly on the coherence of the idea of impersonal domination www.ejpe.org/journal/arti...
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A characteristically thought-provoking review by Nicholas Vrousalis focusing particularly on the coherence of the idea of impersonal domination www.ejpe.org/journal/arti...
The great Avi Shlaim says that the original German publisher tried to add a question mark to the title of his book "Genocid in Gaza". He refused.
Der Historiker Avi Shlaim zögerte erst, von einem Völkermord in Gaza zu sprechen. Im Interview erklärt er, woran er den Genozid dann doch erkannte, und warum er wenig Hoffnung hat, dass die israelische Gesellschaft ihr Unrecht von selbst einsehen wird.
»Solange es Menschen in Gaza gibt, wird es Widerstand geben«
Der Historiker Avi Shlaim zögerte erst, von einem Völkermord in Gaza zu sprechen. Im Interview erklärt er, woran er den Genozid dann doch erkannte, und warum er wenig Hoffnung hat, dass die israelische Gesellschaft ihr Unrecht von selbst einsehen wird.
jacobin.de
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The great Avi Shlaim says that the original German publisher tried to add a question mark to the title of his book "Genocid in Gaza". He refused.
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University.
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University.
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
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"This is the disaster of the the Starmer administration so far - preemptively absorbing the most simplistic account of conventional economics, so as to endlessly signal their conformity to what they imagine the lowest common denominator of conservative financial opinion to be..." - Adam Tooze
February 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"This is the disaster of the the Starmer administration so far - preemptively absorbing the most simplistic account of conventional economics, so as to endlessly signal their conformity to what they imagine the lowest common denominator of conservative financial opinion to be..." - Adam Tooze
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Nice. Honored to be reviewed alongside the great @brunoleipold.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Nice. Honored to be reviewed alongside the great @brunoleipold.com
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
How Does an #Ideology Spread? #Archival #Evidence from an #Extreme #Case
By Johannes Gerschewski - @wzb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
How Does an #Ideology Spread? #Archival #Evidence from an #Extreme #Case
By Johannes Gerschewski - @wzb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
How Does an #Ideology Spread? #Archival #Evidence from an #Extreme #Case
By Johannes Gerschewski - @wzb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
How Does an #Ideology Spread? #Archival #Evidence from an #Extreme #Case
By Johannes Gerschewski - @wzb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
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"to get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy"
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"to get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy"
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
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A huge win for Danish Marxism by proxy
Truly and deeply honoured
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
x.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A huge win for Danish Marxism by proxy
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition".
www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
The Deutscher Memorial Prize
www.deutscherprize.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition".
www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
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Call for Papers for Early-Career Research Workshop „History of Political Thought, Cambridge Contextualism and Political Theory: Judgment, Normativity, and Crisis“ with Prof. John Dunn (Cambridge) and PD Dr. Martin Baesler (Freiburg) on Saturday, January... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30186
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Call for Papers for Early-Career Research Workshop „History of Political Thought, Cambridge Contextualism and Political Theory: Judgment, Normativity, and Crisis“ with Prof. John Dunn (Cambridge) and PD Dr. Martin Baesler (Freiburg) on Saturday, January... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30186
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You can find @sorenmau.bsky.social 's May review of Citizen Marx in our archive.
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Marx's Republican Communism – Spectre Journal
Søren Mau argues that Bruno Leipold's masterful contextualization of Marx in republicanism tradition could be enriched by an engagement with the labor theory of value.
spectrejournal.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You can find @sorenmau.bsky.social 's May review of Citizen Marx in our archive.
spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...
spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...
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Congrats to @brunoleipold.com for winning the 2025 Deutscher Prize for Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social )
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November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Congrats to @brunoleipold.com for winning the 2025 Deutscher Prize for Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social )
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
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Love this from @brunoleipold.com. In 1844-5 Engels was flirting w/ Fourierist/Owenist socialist communes.
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Love this from @brunoleipold.com. In 1844-5 Engels was flirting w/ Fourierist/Owenist socialist communes.
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
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This is something I have thought for a long time but I’m gonna say it:
African cartoonists are unmatched masters of their craft. They should have schools to teach everyone else.
African cartoonists are unmatched masters of their craft. They should have schools to teach everyone else.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is something I have thought for a long time but I’m gonna say it:
African cartoonists are unmatched masters of their craft. They should have schools to teach everyone else.
African cartoonists are unmatched masters of their craft. They should have schools to teach everyone else.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.