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Jeffery R Webber

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Professor of Politics, York University, Toronto Editor, Historical Materialism

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jul 24

A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access.
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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 11

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Trump and #fascism.
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hey y'all! This Tuesday we've got @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social writing on Trumpism as a specific variety of authoritarianism and it's connection to a liberalism in crisis.

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jun 24

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jun 14

Important piece by @nhold.bsky.social at @journalspectre.bsky.social
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Hands Off! – Spectre Journal

Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · May 29

Catch @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social talking with David Camfield about capitalism and the far right on Victor's Children ( @harbingermedia.bsky.social )

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · May 20

Todd Gordon and I talk with David Camfield on David's podcast, Victor's Children. We cover Trump, liberalism, fascism and much else besides.

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#53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney

Play #53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney by Victor's Children on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

Daniel Noboa was just re-elected in Ecuador on a platform emulating the Bukele model in El Salvador. The second half of my HM piece is the long historical backdrop to Noboa's rise.

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

New piece in Historical Materialism on Latin American populism.

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Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism

This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

I have a new piece on Latin American populism in Historical Materialism. Open access at the moment.

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Apr 4

Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.

Historical Materialism 2025 Annual Conference poster, designed by David Mabb.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 1

Adam Hanieh on imperialism, global capitalism and the unstable world order.

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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 20

I have a new piece, “Democracy, Left-Populism and Participatory Budgets in Latin America," on Gabriel Hetland's book on Venezuela, in Critical Sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 19

An important intervention by Stefan Kipfer for a robustly internationalist politics on the Canadian left. Another antidote to the rising tide of dead-end 'left nationalism' in this country socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...

<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?

In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 12

I offer a critical appraisal of twenty first century populism in Latin America, with special attention to Bolivia, in the latest Socialist Register. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/opening...

You can access my piece here www.academia.edu/127278968/TH...

Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads: The Socialist Register 2025

Socialists are at a crossroads, pressed by the urgent need to find new directions amid mounting crises. Is the “new socialist” left starting over or moving on?

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 4

Todd Gordon with an antidote to the flag waving of the last few weeks www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...

We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs

Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 4

Alan Sears and I talk about Alan's new book Eros and Alienation yorku.zoom.us/rec/play/hiV...

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