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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 1d

Going live in a few minutes (at 11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 AM West Coast)!

Debunking Pro-Israel Talking Points on Gaza

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 2d

This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

My Preferred Solution to the Liar Paradox

I wrote my dissertation on the Liar Paradox and the philosophy of logic. In broad outlines, here's the approach I advocated there.

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 2d

Going live in about 10 minutes (11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 West Coast):

Democrats are Screwing Up the Shutdown

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 11d

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 11d

A few more pictures from the Partido de Trabjo conference + the written version of my intro for @profwolff.bsky.social. The 2nd pic is the most meaningful to me--I got to meet one of my heroes (Ofer Cassif, who was almost expelled from the Knesset for speaking out against the genocide).

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 11d

A bit of the opening of the conference yesterday.

The beginnings of DSA meetings are never as good as this!

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 12d

So, this was pretty cool:

Yesterday I got to introduce @profwolff.bsky.social at a conference of socialist, communist and labor parties from all around Latin America (and several outside of it) hosted in Mexico City by the Partido del Trabajo:

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 13d

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers Kamala Harris coming out of whatever hole she crawled into after catastrophically fumbling the 2024 election & babbling some gibberish about Donald Trump being a "communist" (+ how that gibberish manages to precisely reverse the message that could work).

Kamala Harris Thinks Trump Is a “Communist.” That’s Insane.

Centrist Democrats like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom seem to think the best way to disparage Donald Trump is to highlight his departures from free-market orthodoxy. Good luck with that.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to be attending Historical Materialism this fall in London. Will be discussing G.A Cohen and liberal socialism, while previewing our forthcoming collection on analytical Marxism with @benburgis.bsky.social

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century

This book offers generational perspectives on the work of G.A. Cohen and its contemporary implications, situating his work in contemporary debates.

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 14d

Logging some Rosarito Beach time.

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 15d

My co-written article w/@drkuba.bsky.social on how bad a second Trump term might get came out exactly a year ago today. Sadly, I think we nailed it.

Trump Wants to Purge the Deep State So He Can Weaponize It

How bad could a second Donald Trump term get? That depends on how serious he is about replacing the career bureaucrats who staff the security state with MAGA loyalists ready to carry out his most deme...

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 21d

Also, I'm about to go on KPFA (in line two minutes) to talk about both articles.

I think they're planning to open the phone lines if anyone reading this feels like calling in!

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 21d

Meagan Day and I are back in Jacobin magazine today with a followup, now that (as we predicted in the first article) the Right is using Kirk's murder as a pretext for crackdowns on free speech:

The Right Is Using Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Attack Free Speech

Over the past week since the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve watched conservatives unabashedly take ownership of “cancel culture” and crack down on free speech right before our eyes.

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J. Andrew World should be drawing @rightaboutnow2.bsky.social · 21d

I forgot to post this picture from the weekend.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 21d

My piece on American democratic socialism for @unherd.com

unherd.com/2025/09/soci...

Socialism is as American as apple pie

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 22d

Had a lot of fun chatting w/ @atldemsoc.bsky.social yesterday about Marxism, even if it did make me feel very old to hear a couple of these comrades in their 20s say they'd been watching me on TMBS "in high school."

They had a Zoom link, so we should have the recording soon for GTAA:

Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 22d

@benburgis.bsky.social with @atldemsoc.bsky.social

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 22d

@benburgis.bsky.social with @atldemsoc.bsky.social

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 23d

Tonight at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St. in Atlanta, I'm speaking to @atldemsoc.bsky.social on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us."

If you apply stern pressure, you might be able to twist my arm (and perhaps even twist @mattpolprof.bsky.social's arm) into getting a beer after:

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 23d

Come get a beer with @atldemsoc.bsky.social and @benburgis.bsky.social today.

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 24d

Tomorrow (Monday the 15th), I'm doing a talk for @atldemsoc on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us" at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St SW in Atlanta.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 25d

Good job @benburgis.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Speaking a lot of moral and strategic sense

jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster

The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a ...

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 27d

The level of dehumanization on the internet today, from people cheering on assassination to cynically chomping at the bit for ideological retaliation before we even know the facts of the case, makes me glad ill be offline most of the day

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 26d

Meagan Day and I are in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today, explaining why celebrations of political violence are so misguided—*especially* if you care about defeating the right and building a more equal society:

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster

The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a ...

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 26d

I've been profoundly depressed seeing so many leftists either joke about or celebrate the murder of someone for political speech. Glad to see this political clarity from @benburgis.bsky.social and Meagan Day in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.

jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

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