Jack Copley

Artistic image of an MST militant in traditional dress holding a scythe stood next to harvested crops with a slogan "MST 40 anos de luta e resistência". The art work is by Judy Duarte.

With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.

Yo Yale! WTF! So many under and un-employed academics and you’re doing this for someone who already has a job and is by any measure a vacuum inside an empty suit intellectually…

Germany’s Far Right Takes Its Fight to the Factory Floor The upstart Zentrum union is growing fast and makes no secret of its political leanings.

As decarbonization in Europe takes the form of brutal industrial restructuring (without even providing deep decarbonization), and as traditional unions are seen as participants in this process, the danger of such far-right labour organizing will only grow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Podcast Relaunch - We are relaunching our podcast Critical Theory In Context with regular episodes, alternating in German & English, with our new regular hosts @sabinenuss.bsky.social & Jacob Blumenfeld.

Unsere neue Episode über das Jahresthema des Centres:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

Looks fantastic - can't wait to read

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

1/5 Chinese industrial firms now operating at a loss, per www.uscc.gov/sites/defaul...

Important to recall that the Great Depression already started in the 1920s with significant deflation of agricultural commodity prices (in a world where 50% of trade was still raw materials and most people farmers/peasants). manufacturing is today's equivalent and China is of course the epicenter.

The Great Driving Right Show by The Zetkin Collective: 9781836740971 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books How the car become the battleground at the centre of the climate change culture wars. Since the pandemic, there has been a growth of conspiracies that centre on the so-called 'war on cars'. The far r...

another reason to anticipate the new one from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, out in May: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804528...

the second edition (1994)

This looks fantastic (and great cover design as always from Zone)

Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame During the climate endgame, our survival hinges on rebuilding the systems of interdependence that make life in the ruins possible.

"The struggle for a just transition is not simply about the sharp moments—confronting corporations, stopping pipelines. It is about building, in the ruins of the present, the infrastructure that will allow us to keep going when the fight stretches into months, years, lifetimes"

Extractivism, green and brown.
The podcast version of our conversation with political scientist and activist @triofrancos.bsky.social is now available on all your favorite platforms.

There's plenty of bad Marxist history that butchers the empirics to confirm strongly held theoretical priors. But that holds for lots of theoretical traditions, including liberalism - it's just bad history.

Also: I'm not a Marxist because he was just a guy in the nineteenth century - I'm a Keynesian because he was a guy in the early twentieth century which is better.

It's crazy that people think this is a profound critique of Marxism. We're still in the long 1990s I guess.

(it's equally weird as a response to Anderson, who really doesn't fit the mould of an overly theoretical Marxist historian)

you're giving up trade secrets here

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

neither Heinrich nor Kurz

on demographics and labour superfluity

on the dynamic connection between price and non-price competition

on the relationship between Baumolian and Marxian explanations

I've been rereading this excellent piece today - it sheds light on so many of the vital debates within Marxist and heterodox political economy in recent years. I really recommend checking it out.

Passage from a text discussing Peron's personal involvement in the 'ratlines' that brought Nazis to Latin America. Apparently two routes were used: Franco's Spain and Italy. In the latter case, Catholic clergy were instrumental.

(From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")

The Full Force of the Law: Protest and Repression on a Scorched Earth - Salvage The radical flank of the climate movement continues to court arrest with disruptive and spectacular actions, adhering to the logic that Suffragettes and civil rights activists were unpopular in their ...

salvage.zone/the-full-for...

Manchester are advertising a number of political economy (broadly conceived) fully funded 3 year Hallsworth & Simon post-docs www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... closing date - Jan 16 2026