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Richard Seymour
@leninology.bsky.social
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Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 4d
Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Daniel Trilling and Thomas Jones · Is this fascism?
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 8d
In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.
Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d
BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 13d
“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”

Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇

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They Want Their Country Back, but It Was Never Theirs
This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just to install Nigel Farage in government but to build a mass street mo...
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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 15d
The social industry 'rewards drama, hyperbole, losing one's temper, spontaneous rashness, asperity ... It's the opposite of a political meeting, where such behaviour is, not infrequent, but frowned on and shut down by a good chair.' (@leninology.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
You have exceeded your hope ration | Richard Seymour
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 15d
On days like today, I’m reminded bleakly of this by @leninology.bsky.social from 2019: Farage’s appeal stems in part from his claim that you can do the very things that liberals say are impossible www.patreon.com/posts/287922...
The confidence men | Richard Seymour
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 21d
4/ @leninology.bsky.social in @newarab.com.web.brid.gy is probably the most thorough and incisive analysis of Saturday’s march and its context I’ve seen

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Britain’s far-right march was years in the making
Britain’s largest far-right march was no fringe event—it was fuelled by years of Tory & Labour support for anti-immigration policies, argues Richard Seymour.
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 21d
"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 22d
2/ This by @trillingual.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk from June (ostensibly a review of @leninology.bsky.social’s important book, but much more than that) is a brilliant account of the new global and UK far right.

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Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...
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Historical Materialism Paris @hm-paris.bsky.social · 23d
Vous pouvez à présent visionner la plénière "Conjurer le fascisme" de notre conférence Historical Materialism Paris, qui s'est tenue le 26 juin dernier, avec Veronica Gago, Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) et Salvatore Prinzi 👇
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Conjurer le fascisme - HM Paris 2025
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Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann @benwwk.bsky.social · 22d
‘The lack of urgency on all manner of organising questions has been excruciating, and if there doesn’t issue from this a new debate, a new coalition, a new strategy, and a new set of tactics — then we deserve what we get’.

Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social

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I heard you want your country back | Richard Seymour
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Colin Wilson @colinwlondon.bsky.social · 22d
@leninology.bsky.social on how both Tories and Labour have for years conceded to and promoted the far right for their own ends.
Britain’s far-right march was years in the making
Britain’s largest far-right march was no fringe event—it was fuelled by years of Tory & Labour support for anti-immigration policies, argues Richard Seymour.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28d
Masked ICE agents pulled back from a raid in Rochester, N.Y. on Tuesday as about 100 protesters crowded the street outside the location shouting “shame” and “Gestapo." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...
ICE Agents Forced To Leave After Nearly 100 People Protest Attempted Arrest Of Rooftop Workers
The operation took one man into custody, according to local outlet WXXI.
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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 28d
this by @leninology.bsky.social may fit the bill
The Twittering Machine
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it res...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 6
‘If we can build among ourselves relations in which we mutually respect one another and treat one another equally, that's part of the work already.’

On the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets to discuss David Graeber’s life and work. Listen on our website: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Richard Seymour and Thomas Jones · The Debt to David Graeber
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 5
In the latest episode of the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss the life and work of anthropologist David Graeber.

Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Richard Seymour and Thomas Jones · The Debt to David Graeber
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · Sep 3
"The neoliberal revolution may have dismantled the planning capacity of the US state, but industrial policy lived on in the Pentagon."

Always glad to see @triofrancos.bsky.social's analysis. Stop reading unserious "is Trump a degrowther?" think pieces and read this instead.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 4
On the podcast: @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to survey David Graeber’s work, ranging from the theories of power Graeber developed from his early field research to the daring arguments of his co-written posthumous work ‘Dawn of Everything’. Listen: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Richard Seymour and Thomas Jones · The Debt to David Graeber
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 1
‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · Sep 1
being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Sep 1
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 30
‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’

@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 27
‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 29
‘“Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose,” he writes in one essay, “and when they deal with others who are equally free.” Just like your local bowling club or credit union.’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 26
‘Graeber is at his most speculative, and engaging, as a theorist-practitioner of fun.’

@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 22
‘Graeber does seem to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist militants, or sitting in on horizontalist spokescouncils, arguing and taking field notes.’

@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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