Robert Chapman
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher.
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism
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I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
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Important to emphasize: while the realities depicted in this article are grim, the trans political prisoners are also building community. They do have real support both behind bars and outside. This is part of a long history of U.S. political prisoners organizing.
People resist. Always.
People resist. Always.
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Important to emphasize: while the realities depicted in this article are grim, the trans political prisoners are also building community. They do have real support both behind bars and outside. This is part of a long history of U.S. political prisoners organizing.
People resist. Always.
People resist. Always.
I think one of the most important things to do as a researcher is to continually read very widely, far outside your core areas. This will make you better understand the areas you do actually work on.
January 14, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I think one of the most important things to do as a researcher is to continually read very widely, far outside your core areas. This will make you better understand the areas you do actually work on.
"“totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination of society, which operates through the manipulation of needs [in ways] compatible with a “pluralism” of parties, newspapers, “countervailing powers”" - Marcuse 1964
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 AM
"“totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination of society, which operates through the manipulation of needs [in ways] compatible with a “pluralism” of parties, newspapers, “countervailing powers”" - Marcuse 1964
One of the statistics Reform recently used to claim that London isn't safe under Sadiq Khan is that "over 100 phones" are stolen a year there lol.
January 12, 2026 at 7:52 AM
One of the statistics Reform recently used to claim that London isn't safe under Sadiq Khan is that "over 100 phones" are stolen a year there lol.
A really nuanced, helpful discussion. Good for understanding the SWP but also just for understanding how horrifically purportedly radical or
progressive orgs can and do still react to complaint: the mental gymnastics involved, the abuses of power over job roles, cult-like dynamics, etc.
progressive orgs can and do still react to complaint: the mental gymnastics involved, the abuses of power over job roles, cult-like dynamics, etc.
Our latest episode spotlights the 'Comrade Delta' scandal, which led to the decline of the Socialist Workers' Party in Britain. Free to listen on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/comrad...
January 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A really nuanced, helpful discussion. Good for understanding the SWP but also just for understanding how horrifically purportedly radical or
progressive orgs can and do still react to complaint: the mental gymnastics involved, the abuses of power over job roles, cult-like dynamics, etc.
progressive orgs can and do still react to complaint: the mental gymnastics involved, the abuses of power over job roles, cult-like dynamics, etc.
Probably the most important thing about the increasingly reliance on AI owned by fascist billionaires, is that this reliance will help those owners by causing mass unemployment, in turn leading to further support for the fascist politics and parties that those same billionaires fund and support.
January 9, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Probably the most important thing about the increasingly reliance on AI owned by fascist billionaires, is that this reliance will help those owners by causing mass unemployment, in turn leading to further support for the fascist politics and parties that those same billionaires fund and support.
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📚FREE EBOOK📚
Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
This book exposes how a system governed by capitalist logic starves, exploits, and endangers lives as a matter of routine operation.
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Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
This book exposes how a system governed by capitalist logic starves, exploits, and endangers lives as a matter of routine operation.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
📚FREE EBOOK📚
Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
This book exposes how a system governed by capitalist logic starves, exploits, and endangers lives as a matter of routine operation.
plutobooks.com/product/immi...
Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
This book exposes how a system governed by capitalist logic starves, exploits, and endangers lives as a matter of routine operation.
plutobooks.com/product/immi...
Not just where you live but also wherever you visit imo.
My partner and I have different views about the ethics of accents (in England). I think that you should *actively* adjust your accent to where you currently live, she thinks that you should keep your accent about where it was when you left school.
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Not just where you live but also wherever you visit imo.
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an eyewitness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting told me the victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave" before an ICE agent fired multiple shots "right into, it seemed like, her face" www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...
Witness Says Victim Was ‘Obviously Scared’ Before Fatal ICE Shooting
The victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave," Emily Heller told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM
an eyewitness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting told me the victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave" before an ICE agent fired multiple shots "right into, it seemed like, her face" www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...
"[U.S.] Fascism...feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and doors will be kicked down in the night and machine-gun fire and buckshot become the medium of exchange...We must rip away its mask." - George Jackson, 1971
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
"[U.S.] Fascism...feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and doors will be kicked down in the night and machine-gun fire and buckshot become the medium of exchange...We must rip away its mask." - George Jackson, 1971
The shift from Venezuala to threatening Greenland despite it being part of NATO is reminiscient of Césaire's 1950 analysis fascism as an imperial boomerang effect, where colonial practices of domination return to be used near the imperial core. This could happen with what's being done in Gaza, too.
January 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The shift from Venezuala to threatening Greenland despite it being part of NATO is reminiscient of Césaire's 1950 analysis fascism as an imperial boomerang effect, where colonial practices of domination return to be used near the imperial core. This could happen with what's being done in Gaza, too.
Good to see some gay sorcerer representation in Stranger Things. There is not enough gay sorcerer representation on tv imo.
January 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Good to see some gay sorcerer representation in Stranger Things. There is not enough gay sorcerer representation on tv imo.
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I'm excited to share that our paper is published!
Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging
With @drstevenkapp.bsky.social and Charlotte Morris.
#AutResearch 🌈🎓 #Narratives #Trans #LGBTQIA #Belonging
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging
With @drstevenkapp.bsky.social and Charlotte Morris.
#AutResearch 🌈🎓 #Narratives #Trans #LGBTQIA #Belonging
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging
Introduction Clinical impressions suggest a significant overlap of autistic as well as transgender and gender diverse identities, implying a need for research that explores TGD autistic experiences in...
journals.plos.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I'm excited to share that our paper is published!
Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging
With @drstevenkapp.bsky.social and Charlotte Morris.
#AutResearch 🌈🎓 #Narratives #Trans #LGBTQIA #Belonging
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging
With @drstevenkapp.bsky.social and Charlotte Morris.
#AutResearch 🌈🎓 #Narratives #Trans #LGBTQIA #Belonging
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Trying to think through the regime's actions in Venezuela.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/crude-ideo...
Crude Ideology
Some Thoughts on Venezuela
www.unpopularfront.news
January 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The alan partridge of authoritarian centrism. He will be remembered mainly for crushing the labour left, bootlicking trump, and paving the way for fascism in Britain.
What an incredible coward... What more facts does he need to know these actions are pure and simply unacceptable?
Whether it's against the far right and authoritarianism here or abroad, Starmer has demonstrated he will not stand for what's right...
Whether it's against the far right and authoritarianism here or abroad, Starmer has demonstrated he will not stand for what's right...
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The alan partridge of authoritarian centrism. He will be remembered mainly for crushing the labour left, bootlicking trump, and paving the way for fascism in Britain.
Terrible situation other ways too. You increasingly get professional award winners who know the right people and the tricks for how to repeatedly get funding; they create feudal academic fifedoms that demand loyalty; they then produce dull research due to how totalitarian and nepotistic they are.
Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Terrible situation other ways too. You increasingly get professional award winners who know the right people and the tricks for how to repeatedly get funding; they create feudal academic fifedoms that demand loyalty; they then produce dull research due to how totalitarian and nepotistic they are.
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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The Imperialists will not stop until they're stopped. There is no norm or law which can tame total impunity. Impunity has no conscience. It has no need of one. The only way to stop them is ultimately for the apparatuses of impunity to be broken and their commanders' power nullified.
January 3, 2026 at 9:53 AM
The Imperialists will not stop until they're stopped. There is no norm or law which can tame total impunity. Impunity has no conscience. It has no need of one. The only way to stop them is ultimately for the apparatuses of impunity to be broken and their commanders' power nullified.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
Finally listening to @davidveevers.bsky.social's book The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire. Learning a lot and enjoying it immensely, would highly recommend.
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Finally listening to @davidveevers.bsky.social's book The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire. Learning a lot and enjoying it immensely, would highly recommend.
Signing my emails off "with the warmth of collectivism" from now on
January 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Signing my emails off "with the warmth of collectivism" from now on
Specifically this edition of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals.
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Specifically this edition of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals.
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Now Available for preorder - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods
The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory
The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
'Cultural Marxism' is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords – but what does this term mean and where did it come from? This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult leaders, right-wing intellec...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Now Available for preorder - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods
The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory
The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory
Our cats seem to think that the baby moniter is a tiny cat tv we've bought specifically for them to watch.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Our cats seem to think that the baby moniter is a tiny cat tv we've bought specifically for them to watch.
Watched an in depth interview with Gabriel Rockhill and his analysis seems far more nuanced than the impression I got from both critics and defenders. Will probably read his book at some point, it sounds interesting (although surely lots to disagree with).
January 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Watched an in depth interview with Gabriel Rockhill and his analysis seems far more nuanced than the impression I got from both critics and defenders. Will probably read his book at some point, it sounds interesting (although surely lots to disagree with).