Matt McManus
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
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Matt McManus
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
· Mar 21
The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills.
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www.routledge.com
Check out my latest book "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" at the link below.
www.routledge.com/The-Politica...
www.routledge.com/The-Politica...
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Provided an almost libidinal outlet for people who secretly thrill to the idea of Jim Crow as an ideal national order.
One thing future historians will study is how a bunch of rich people convinced us this was a very serious guy whose ideas were worth hearing.
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Provided an almost libidinal outlet for people who secretly thrill to the idea of Jim Crow as an ideal national order.
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Cognitive consistency is a hell of a drug
One thing future historians will study is how a bunch of rich people convinced us this was a very serious guy whose ideas were worth hearing.
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Cognitive consistency is a hell of a drug
One thing future historians will study is how a bunch of rich people convinced us this was a very serious guy whose ideas were worth hearing.
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 PM
One thing future historians will study is how a bunch of rich people convinced us this was a very serious guy whose ideas were worth hearing.
Miller's wife apparently thinks classical liberalism is "deeply leftist" and "woke"...
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Miller's wife apparently thinks classical liberalism is "deeply leftist" and "woke"...
Decades after the Cold War there is something irritating about centrist liberals continuing to give exceptionally lazy and stunningly inaccurate takes on Marx and Marxism that dont even seem aware of the basics of his thought.
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Decades after the Cold War there is something irritating about centrist liberals continuing to give exceptionally lazy and stunningly inaccurate takes on Marx and Marxism that dont even seem aware of the basics of his thought.
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Rauch se dio cuenta al fin. Sin tiempo no era.
"A través del pasado año de Trump, lo que originalmente parecía un esfuerzo para convertir el gobierno en su juego personal ha derivado claramente hacia el fascismo doctrinal y operacional."
"A través del pasado año de Trump, lo que originalmente parecía un esfuerzo para convertir el gobierno en su juego personal ha derivado claramente hacia el fascismo doctrinal y operacional."
In "The Anatomy of Fascism" Robert Paxton hypothesized that the first organization that could recognizbly be called fascist emerged in America: the KKK.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Rauch se dio cuenta al fin. Sin tiempo no era.
"A través del pasado año de Trump, lo que originalmente parecía un esfuerzo para convertir el gobierno en su juego personal ha derivado claramente hacia el fascismo doctrinal y operacional."
"A través del pasado año de Trump, lo que originalmente parecía un esfuerzo para convertir el gobierno en su juego personal ha derivado claramente hacia el fascismo doctrinal y operacional."
In "The Anatomy of Fascism" Robert Paxton hypothesized that the first organization that could recognizbly be called fascist emerged in America: the KKK.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
In "The Anatomy of Fascism" Robert Paxton hypothesized that the first organization that could recognizbly be called fascist emerged in America: the KKK.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Join us Jan 24–28 for back-to-back phone-a-thons to sign up new NDP members and build momentum for our campaign!
We’ll have special guests like Leah Gazan, Billy Bragg, Yanis Varoufakis & Gary Burrill — plus all the tools you need to make calls.
Register: https://avilewis.link/all-out-for-avi
We’ll have special guests like Leah Gazan, Billy Bragg, Yanis Varoufakis & Gary Burrill — plus all the tools you need to make calls.
Register: https://avilewis.link/all-out-for-avi
January 24, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Join us Jan 24–28 for back-to-back phone-a-thons to sign up new NDP members and build momentum for our campaign!
We’ll have special guests like Leah Gazan, Billy Bragg, Yanis Varoufakis & Gary Burrill — plus all the tools you need to make calls.
Register: https://avilewis.link/all-out-for-avi
We’ll have special guests like Leah Gazan, Billy Bragg, Yanis Varoufakis & Gary Burrill — plus all the tools you need to make calls.
Register: https://avilewis.link/all-out-for-avi
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We desperately need leadership that is going to fight against the vampiric system of capitalism. Even if a wealth tax temporarily masks the exploitative nature of capital accumulation, we still need a direct tax tool on capital right now in Canada that reduces the concentration of wealth and power.
Some great stuff here by @avilewis.ca. Far as I'm concerned his leadership campaign is one of the most exciting things to the @ndp.ca in years
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
Avi Lewis asks bankers on Bay Street if it’s time for a wealth tax
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
m.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
We desperately need leadership that is going to fight against the vampiric system of capitalism. Even if a wealth tax temporarily masks the exploitative nature of capital accumulation, we still need a direct tax tool on capital right now in Canada that reduces the concentration of wealth and power.
Some great stuff here by @avilewis.ca. Far as I'm concerned his leadership campaign is one of the most exciting things to the @ndp.ca in years
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
Avi Lewis asks bankers on Bay Street if it’s time for a wealth tax
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
m.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Some great stuff here by @avilewis.ca. Far as I'm concerned his leadership campaign is one of the most exciting things to the @ndp.ca in years
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNE...
"Libertarian" invoking inherently collectivist ideas about civilizational identity and the nation-state to justify policy brutality against migrants is very 2026....
January 25, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"Libertarian" invoking inherently collectivist ideas about civilizational identity and the nation-state to justify policy brutality against migrants is very 2026....
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Greg Bovino thrills to the murder of American citizens. He loves it. What other conclusion can we draw?
BASH: You said he wanted to 'massacre law enforcement.' It doesn't like like that
BOVINO: I believe the fantastic training our law enforcement partners have prevented any specific, ahhh, shootings of law enforcement. So good job by our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do it
BOVINO: I believe the fantastic training our law enforcement partners have prevented any specific, ahhh, shootings of law enforcement. So good job by our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do it
January 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Greg Bovino thrills to the murder of American citizens. He loves it. What other conclusion can we draw?
"I do not care" is basically their philosophy on every moral issue at this point...
January 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
"I do not care" is basically their philosophy on every moral issue at this point...
Time to dive in. Reviewing for @damagemag.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Time to dive in. Reviewing for @damagemag.bsky.social
Seems for a lot of people it was always just "dont tread on ME."
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Seems for a lot of people it was always just "dont tread on ME."
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The Trump administration reserved a majority of refugee slots for white South Africans based on debunked "genocide" claims. It's now U.S. policy to favor whites in refugee admissions, thanks to Stephen Miller.
@gregsargent.bsky.social
@gregsargent.bsky.social
Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families
www.theunpopulist.net
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The Trump administration reserved a majority of refugee slots for white South Africans based on debunked "genocide" claims. It's now U.S. policy to favor whites in refugee admissions, thanks to Stephen Miller.
@gregsargent.bsky.social
@gregsargent.bsky.social
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
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What is happening in the quoted post is also, very clearly, an assimilation of a political event to the friend-enemy mode of politics. In that mode, any political event can be interpreted as a 'win' for one side, or a 'loss' for the other, & indeed, that's what politics is ultimately about.
The eager willingness of right wing intellectuals to humiliate themselves in a brown nosing competition for Trump and MAGA's approval will be studied for decades.
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
What is happening in the quoted post is also, very clearly, an assimilation of a political event to the friend-enemy mode of politics. In that mode, any political event can be interpreted as a 'win' for one side, or a 'loss' for the other, & indeed, that's what politics is ultimately about.
The eager willingness of right wing intellectuals to humiliate themselves in a brown nosing competition for Trump and MAGA's approval will be studied for decades.
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The eager willingness of right wing intellectuals to humiliate themselves in a brown nosing competition for Trump and MAGA's approval will be studied for decades.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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And go.bsky.app/JtF6uD1 (we're going to need a third soon, we've grown so much as a community!)
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