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Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that “Marxism is refuted.” But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not.
January 23, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that “Marxism is refuted.” But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not.
This explains why consumer boycotts are dubious. Such activities are good at shifting narratives but the bourgeoisie and labor aristocracy (mostly global north proletariat) are the only ones with enough income to be discerning about their spending habits. Material impact is too limited already
#WolffBites: The biggest threat to US capitalism is this inequality: 20% richest do 59% of total consumer spending that keeps economy going, but poorest 80% do only 41% of spending. Capitalism keeps producing the inequality that destroys it.
January 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM
This explains why consumer boycotts are dubious. Such activities are good at shifting narratives but the bourgeoisie and labor aristocracy (mostly global north proletariat) are the only ones with enough income to be discerning about their spending habits. Material impact is too limited already
There's a part here about how an old Marxist scholar wasn't impressed by him and honestly same lol. If you aren't applying historical materialism your analysis sucks, man. Just another Duhring.
My profile of the ubiquitous and indefatigable Adam Tooze is up at The Guardian Long Read today: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
There's a part here about how an old Marxist scholar wasn't impressed by him and honestly same lol. If you aren't applying historical materialism your analysis sucks, man. Just another Duhring.
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The masses have the right to speak up and shout but no power to change things. This is free speech of bourgeois society
Republican on CNN: You peacefully protest with a letter to the editor. You peacefully protest by starting a Substack or a podcast.
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 AM
The masses have the right to speak up and shout but no power to change things. This is free speech of bourgeois society
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A really good piece that connects a bunch of historical threads together to converge on the basic reality that if there is such a thing as a "narco-state" in the western hemisphere, it's the US
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
A really good piece that connects a bunch of historical threads together to converge on the basic reality that if there is such a thing as a "narco-state" in the western hemisphere, it's the US
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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⭕️ Axios reports that the CIA played a central role in enabling the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with U.S. intelligence officials saying a small CIA team was clandestinely deployed on the ground starting in August. According to a source, the team mapped Maduro’s “pattern of...
January 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
⭕️ Axios reports that the CIA played a central role in enabling the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with U.S. intelligence officials saying a small CIA team was clandestinely deployed on the ground starting in August. According to a source, the team mapped Maduro’s “pattern of...
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Venezuela’s gov't tonight has called on “all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
Drop Site News has recently reported how Venezuela’s communal and grassroots movements were...
Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-vene...
Drop Site News has recently reported how Venezuela’s communal and grassroots movements were...
Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-vene...
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Venezuela’s gov't tonight has called on “all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
Drop Site News has recently reported how Venezuela’s communal and grassroots movements were...
Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-vene...
Drop Site News has recently reported how Venezuela’s communal and grassroots movements were...
Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-vene...
Long live Venezuela! Long live Maduro! May America crumble away so all people can be free.
January 4, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Long live Venezuela! Long live Maduro! May America crumble away so all people can be free.
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biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
“South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
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NEW ARTICLE: Why Don't Western Workers Have Class Consciousness? READ NOW:
noncompetemedia.substack.com/p/why-do-wes...
noncompetemedia.substack.com/p/why-do-wes...
Why do Western Workers Lack Class Consciousness?
Understanding the Bourgeois Proletarian Mindset
noncompetemedia.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Why Don't Western Workers Have Class Consciousness? READ NOW:
noncompetemedia.substack.com/p/why-do-wes...
noncompetemedia.substack.com/p/why-do-wes...
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The art for this game was done by Hiroshi Nagai! An incredible artist who creates gorgeous art for city pop albums. With these being a few examples!
December 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The art for this game was done by Hiroshi Nagai! An incredible artist who creates gorgeous art for city pop albums. With these being a few examples!
Chomsky forever mogged by Parenti. He will join all the succdems in the dustbin of history
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Chomsky forever mogged by Parenti. He will join all the succdems in the dustbin of history
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US National Security Strategy in Asia - get the Asians to front up the cash to deter China
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
US National Security Strategy in Asia - get the Asians to front up the cash to deter China
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
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Shockwaves in Europe & in Asia. As Policytensor puts it "We have the W Hemisphere, Europe & the Middle East but no Asia. The only core, vital US interest in the Indo-Pacific is described as the security of sea-lanes,supply chains,&critical minerals. No mention of Japanese, Korean,Taiwanese security"
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shockwaves in Europe & in Asia. As Policytensor puts it "We have the W Hemisphere, Europe & the Middle East but no Asia. The only core, vital US interest in the Indo-Pacific is described as the security of sea-lanes,supply chains,&critical minerals. No mention of Japanese, Korean,Taiwanese security"
We use too many terms to describe what is really the natural social order under capitalism. These are all features of bourgeois rule.
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We use too many terms to describe what is really the natural social order under capitalism. These are all features of bourgeois rule.
One of the most evil Americans alive. Trump doesn't come even remotely close to her level of bloodthirst yet.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
One of the most evil Americans alive. Trump doesn't come even remotely close to her level of bloodthirst yet.
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Every time a socialist country falls there is another round of brutal primitive accumulation
I often think about how some of the first properties in Blackstone’s portfolio were public housing in eastern Germany that had been privatized
I often think about how some of the first properties in Blackstone’s portfolio were public housing in eastern Germany that had been privatized
The collapse of the Soviet Union coincided with the accumulation of capital into private hands. It isn’t that different from the effects of enclosure and industrialization had in England.
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Every time a socialist country falls there is another round of brutal primitive accumulation
I often think about how some of the first properties in Blackstone’s portfolio were public housing in eastern Germany that had been privatized
I often think about how some of the first properties in Blackstone’s portfolio were public housing in eastern Germany that had been privatized
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If you are one of the people with more advanced class consciousness in the United States and suddenly the masses are supporting social democrats- you know what you need to do? Push people further than that, agitate. Not mindlessly glaze those people. Come on. Grab the lib by the shoulders and push!
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you are one of the people with more advanced class consciousness in the United States and suddenly the masses are supporting social democrats- you know what you need to do? Push people further than that, agitate. Not mindlessly glaze those people. Come on. Grab the lib by the shoulders and push!
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The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran.
"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
Prolonged water cuts across Tehran have created widespread panic among the Iranian capital’s 10 million residents.
Tehran’s Residents Are Panicking as Taps Run Dry
Years of drought and neglect have left the city nearly unsustainable.
foreignpolicy.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran.
"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
The notion that ending USAID has killed 600,000 is questionable
Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The notion that ending USAID has killed 600,000 is questionable
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"There are more US naval assets in the Caribbean than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis" - @adamtooze.bsky.social
"Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
"Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"There are more US naval assets in the Caribbean than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis" - @adamtooze.bsky.social
"Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
"Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Funnily enough, this is the contradiction of democratic socialism. Within our current juridical framework you actually can’t abolish private property. You don’t have to worry about it cause it’s impossible without revolution
Kelly Loeffler: "This is gonna be a crisis in the city of New York, to have a communist in there talking about seizing the means of production ... this is the face of Democrat Party now, and you saw that with everyone coming and bowing to him."
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Funnily enough, this is the contradiction of democratic socialism. Within our current juridical framework you actually can’t abolish private property. You don’t have to worry about it cause it’s impossible without revolution