Matt McManus

The best and truest thing that has ever been said about me

Nice. Honored to be reviewed alongside the great @brunoleipold.com

Loki standing on guard

Heading out tonight and I was told to make myself presentable

Coalition Socialism - Dissent Magazine The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

This is no longer paywalled. cc @mattpolprof.bsky.social

dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

Doing a twin review for @liberalcurrents.com

The Trouble With Fascism Analogies In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling i...

Good essay in @jacobinmag.bsky.social

jacobin.com/2025/11/fasc...

Patience famously pays the bills

From Hearts, Minds, and the Power of Emotion by Matt McManus

Glad I checked to see whether this had lapsed...

Let the golden age begin...

Time to start writing

Continental versions of conservatism are eye rolling; there's something cloying-cute even-about being asked to revere the magic monarchy rock.

But American conservatism is basically a grasping dude looking around the world paranoid those he regards as his inferiors are trying to fuck him

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

Just finished a 4,600 word article on the history and ideology of fascist anti-socialism for @currentaffairs.bsky.social. Tired

If only anyone had seen before

Cheers

Hope you cause plenty of beautiful trouble Matt. 👍🌹

Nice catch

Ill be heading to Brazil next week to speak about liberal socialism in a few places.

I read the news today. Oh boy.

Thank you

Like Yanir, I’m also a queer POC leftist who’s highly suspicious of *any* white man who expends reams of paper citing any deep admiration for liberalism, especially through the lens of western philosophy

But to me your work is like a dark lantern against a pale backdrop—easy to see, easy to follow

While I admire the length brother Yanis has gone through to read into your work, I think his writeup is being uncharitable and he’s ascribing beliefs to you that you clearly do not state, nor are even implicitly supported in your work—those being a softness towards imperialism, slavery, and violence

Ha!

The arc of history proving Im right would be pretty weird.

You see, I would just make my socialism *irreversible.* <dusts hands>

Sorry that's as far as I got before it started sounding like gobbledygook and I stopped.

Update. The magazine agreed to let me write a little response. So ill do that and have it out soon