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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 7d

Just saying, over on @techwontsave.us I discussed why this would be the case with @abenanav.bsky.social back in **March 2023**

Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...

Chatbots Won’t Take Many Jobs
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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks! :-D

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 14d

A strange feature of modern life is receiving birthday wishes from dentists, optometrists, and other assorted professionals and tradespeople in cities you haven't lived in for a decade.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...

New Left Review 154 Launch

Aaron Benanav will be discussing his framework for a post-capitalist social order with Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 17d

Reading the ultra wealthy complain about a French wealth tax proposal (“It’s collectivism, it’s communism . . . it’s a fundamental attack on my freedom and right to property.”) brings a little warmth and joy to my otherwise cold and sad heart.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27d

I really enjoyed reading @abenanav.bsky.social’s vision for a new kind of economic system — one where we have more authority over production and more freedom in our lives.

It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 27d

The technologies we have are shaped by our society and the economic incentives that drive their development.

This week @abenanav.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss his vision for a more democratic, equitable economy and what it means for tech.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/293_...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · Aug 14

fresh audio product:

• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Aug 17

I really feel like this—wartime level government spending—plus the continuation of out and out elite plunder, is the main thing going on in the US economy these days.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 8

On my way to Montreal for SASE 2025. We’ll have a running theme, throughout the conference, of new thinking about economics after the end of capitalism.

I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there!

newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025

In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...

newleftreview.org

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 3

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025

In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...

newleftreview.org

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025

In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...

newleftreview.org

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 3

You’re cited in one of the Keynes sections :)

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 3

If you have trouble accessing the file you can always go to www.aaronbenanav.com/papers

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jul 3

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025

In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...

newleftreview.org

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jun 12

“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...

www.versobooks.com

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Jun 10

@abenanav.bsky.social punctures the AI hype.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · Jun 10

Check out @abenanav.bsky.social on AI for @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...

www.versobooks.com

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · Jun 9

Liberate Los Angeles!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 27

800 UK legal experts, including former Supreme Court justices, demand the government sanction Israel and suspend it from UN to meet “fundamental international legal obligations.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said.

In a letter to the prime minister, they welcome Keir Starmer’s joint statement last week with the leaders of France and Canada warning that they were prepared to take “concrete actions” against Israel. But they urge him to act without delay as “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · May 26

What is happening in Gaza is horror. The killing of innocent children there should rip our hearts straight from our chests. I am deeply shameful that my government supports this and that my society has allowed our elites to use Palestinian lives like pawn pieces in domestic and foreign politics.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · May 20

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without social media. Me too.

I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · May 17

The taco trade is winning big: “Trump always chickens out.” What a loser! Sad.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · May 15

Great book!

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · May 15

Aaron Benanav’s (@abenanav.bsky.social) review of Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilizations, and Labor Reforms in Italy by Eloisa Betti (published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1215/1547...

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · May 14

The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.

@laramerling.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Real Constraints

The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.

www.break-down.org

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