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Kieran Durkin
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Marxism, critical humanism(s), and value struggles…

…working on a book on Human (Anti-)Capital…

…and dreaming of the liminality of mountains
I wrote an article on 'Living Life as an Art: Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault on the Art of Existence in Late Capitalism' - focusing critically on their respective accounts of an art of living/existence and their attendant 'practices of freedom.' psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I reviewed Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism jacobin.com/2025/09/marx...
Karl Marx Looked Forward to Revolt Against Europe’s Empires
Some critics have accused Karl Marx of forcing world history into a narrow framework that presented European capitalism as a universal development model. A closer look at Marx’s late writings show how...
jacobin.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Kieran Durkin
Suddenly, something is shifting.

Israel's apologists have realised that a reckoning is coming.

They understand that they're not going to get away with this abomination.

And they are absolutely right 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A moment of judgment has come at last: not just for Netanyahu but for his enablers | Owen Jones
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza has prompted international condemnation, but many of those critics will face their own reckoning, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
100% need a materialist defense of Utopian thinking. Have been similarly arguing that historical conditions should determine our attitude to Utopianism
February 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My review of Werner Bonefeld's A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion in the European Journal of Social Theory journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DAX2H...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
More caffeine than subject!
December 6, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Shaking, crying, exploding with rage at the poetic justice ringing through this address youtu.be/nW5U_ZqGmZU?...
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December 6, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Had the pleasure of recommending jhs.press.gonzaga.edu/articles/10.... by @joanbraune.bsky.social to a student today!
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December 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM