great bedtime story!

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...

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in Turin, presentation of the 1972-73 Lectures on Marx's Theories of Surplus Value by Claudio Napoleoni, previously unpublished, edited and introduced by me.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

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

Is it xmas yet?

#Santa
#RobinHood
#ActsOfRadicalGood

youtu.be/2-XH_X40CbM?...

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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

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.

📢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-...

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!

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...

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.

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??