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Paul Parry
@paulparry.bsky.social
Works in education, based in the Peaks. PhD candidate in educational research looking at play, value, critical theory and class.
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great bedtime story!
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/products/337...
The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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In less than a week in Turin, presentation of the 1972-73 Lectures on Marx's Theories of Surplus Value by Claudio Napoleoni, previously unpublished, edited and introduced by me.

#Marx
#Smith
#Ricardo
#Bailey
#Physiocrats
#valuetheory
#money
#abstractlabour
#dialectic
#Hegel
#Colletti
#absolutevalue
June 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I don't know if the left needs a Joe Rogan exactly but I do know that an hour from now me and the @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social crew are gonna record an episode about Hanna Pitkin's classic study on the concept of representation. that will probably cinch the 2028 election so you're welcome
May 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
December 5, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'.

The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Out today: the 50th anniversary edition of The Dispossessed, with foreword by Karen Joy Fowler!

This edition is available in hardcover and paperback from Harper Perennial. Cover art by Muhammad Fatchurofi.
November 19, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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📢Online Event:

Wednesday 20th of November (12.30-2pm), @sallywelsh2003.bsky.social will be talking about recognising mature students’ unpaid care work as a form of work-based learning, as part of the our seminar series for 2025.

For details and registration:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Recognising mature students’ unpaid care work as a form of work-based learning, Wednesday 20 November, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
This webinar explores how unpaid care work was positioned on mature students’ degrees in English further education colleges.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
November 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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all right, with bsky blowing up and twitter breaking down, the time seems right to start an account here. hi! we are What's Left of Philosophy, a podcast about contemporary critical theory and the history of political thought from a Marxist perspective. find us on all major streaming platforms!
November 19, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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I made it to 1000 followers. I said when I did I would introduce everyone to my great work. That was obviously a joke. But here are two general audienish overviews of my works in progress in relation to Marxism and Critical Theory:

www.ppesydney.net/ten-question...
Ten Questions on Negative Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Past & Present Reading Group recently held a workshop on ‘negative totality,’ read through the work of Chris O’Kane, who has developed and defended that concept within contemporary critical theory...
www.ppesydney.net
November 14, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Nothing beats spending the evening in a room full of passionate, knowledgable early years practitioners who want to share the power of play with the world . Thanks to @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social for pulling it all together.
November 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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I'm just learning that the wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an immense collection of commodities... is this true??
November 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM