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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · 1d

Super excited about this one ✊🏼

www.altrlab.org/latest/marx-...

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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · 16d

Looks super interesting!

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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 27d

The cool thing about teaching utilitarianism is that each time I do, I get a little closer to convincing myself it's correct

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 29d

Such a funny headline - don't they realise Starmer IS the mistake? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes

Prime minister faces criticism from Emily Thornberry, who highlights risk of ‘handing country to Farage’

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Sep 6

@leaypi.bsky.social in today’s @financialtimes.com

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Aug 22

Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎉 Congratulations @brunoleipold.com (@lsepoltheory.bsky.social) for winning our 2025 Political Theory Prize

⭐ Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

👉 More about the winner buff.ly/TweS2Bw #ECPRPrizes

The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold

European Consortium for Political Research

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Aug 12

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Jul 30

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Constituency Juries: #Holding #Elected #Representatives #Accountable through #Sortition

By @brunoleipold.com

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you’re around Munich in a couple of weeks and want to discuss oligarchy and corporatism with me please join us to this workshop! ✊🏼

collab.dvb.bayern/spaces/TUMhf...

Overcoming Oligarchy: Class-Specific Political Institutions in Democratic Theory - Hochschule für Politik - BayernCollab

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I know I speak for millions of people up and down this country:

We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Apr 24

It's a bit of a shame everyone decided to turn against the Enlightenment just when it's most needed, isn't it....

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · Apr 21

Saddened by the death of Pope Francis, who was a wonderful force for good. I hope the Catholic Church stays true to his vision of economic and environmental justice.

Here's a short essay I wrote a decade ago on Francis's radical economic vision in Laudato Si':

web.archive.org/web/20150626...

OPINION: Pope Francis’ radical economic vision | Al Jazeera America

His new encyclical on climate change urges wholesale transformation of our capitalist system

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social · Mar 31

Liberals who argue that fascists such as Trump and Le Pen should not be barred from running elections by legal means (and must instead be 'defeated democratically') seem to forget that fascists have no intent to win democratically (and break the law precisely to assure that they won't be defeated).

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Mar 31

Trump calls it Liberation Day. Expecting it to be a bit more like Liz Truss day.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ever forced to find cuts to welfare, never forced to raise taxes.

"Despite the last-minute scramble to find savings, the chancellor is nevertheless expected to strike a robust note when she addresses MPs, facing down growing speculation she will be forced to raise taxes – perhaps as soon as the autumn."

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Mar 17

Few things beat discussing socialism with such great comrades and friends. Huge thanks to @tatianallaguno.bsky.social @vharting.bsky.social and @jkandiyali.bsky.social

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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · Mar 14

What an honour to have been part of this wonderful book roundtable on @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx alongside @tatianallaguno.bsky.social ❤️✊🏼

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Mar 13

Limited government has in practice always been about limiting government services, while increasing government force and brutality. Exactly the wrong way round.

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Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social · Mar 5

The London Political Theory Network is organizing a panel on “Empire and Emancipation” on April 4, 3-5pm, at Senate House, involving Paul Apostolidis, Arturo Chang, Ulas Ince, Kimberly Hutchings, and Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí. For more details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...

Empire and Emancipation Panel

The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Feb 26

I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Feb 26

New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Feb 6

📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts

The study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · Jan 31

Wow this paper is fantastic. An economic explanation for Haslanger's theory of race, of DuBois on the psychological wage, and of the different racial stratifications of different societies.

Sometimes I read an econ paper that makes me wish I became an economist...

Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · Jan 31

A paper that would not have been published in a top 5 journal 20 years ago. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Exploitation Through Racialization*
Dan McGee
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjaf007, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf007
Published: 20 January 2025

Abstract
I develop a model of the social construction of race. Racial categories emerge from labour conflict when elites privilege intrinsically irrelevant traits to divide workers against each other and extract workers’ surplus. I show that elites use colour to grant unequal rights and track these rights across generations because it is heritable, observable, and relatively immutable. Depending on the demographic conditions the elites face, the system of racialization manifests either as ‘ancestry-based’ or ‘colour-based’ categories. This approach to the social construction of race provides a unified explanation of skin tone inequality, racial homophily in marriage, the social status of mixed-race people, the ‘psychological wage’ of Jim Crow, and legal restrictions on manumission. I test for historical variations in racial boundaries using census data from the United States and Brazil and for differential patterns of skin tone inequality between ancestry-based and colour-based systems using survey data from across the Americas.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · Jan 28

We're very exciting to host a book launch for @mirjam-m.bsky.social 's Global Sweathshops on 5 March, 4-6pm. Discussion will be chaired by @brunoleipold.com with comments by Paul Apostolidis, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and Sarah Goff. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/global-swe....

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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · Jan 21

Trump's inauguration marks a seismic political shift in Silicon Valley - a complete capitulation to the far right and the beginning of a new era of 'tech for evil': trashing the environment, military AI, misinformation and rampant cronyism.

open.substack.com/pub/doesnotc...

Big Tech Gives Us the ‘Roman Salute’: Welcome to the Era of ‘Tech for Evil’

When people show you who they are, believe them.

open.substack.com

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · Dec 18

And also huge congratulations to @vharting.bsky.social and Andreas Sorger who officially received their PhDs in political theory today! 🎓🎉

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Dec 12

I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...

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