On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story – Spectre Journal Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism's, and in particular Vivek Chibber's, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.

By reducing capitalism’s origins to the English countryside, this piece argues that Vivek Chibber ignores how colonial violence, exploitation, and diverse labor forms were intrinsic to capitalism’s global emergence.

By Bilal Zahoor in @journalspectre.bsky.social

ICYMI: Nazanin Shahrokni's reflection on international solidarity and Iran is still live on our website.

My mom's new book on organizing is available for pre-order! It's a profound source of wisdom, insight, and inspiration, Bernie knows what's up:

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Revolutionary Abolitionism Against Cops & Capitalism Join authors and organizers brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward ...

Revolutionary Abolitionism: Against Cops & Capitalism

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“Gender Ideology,” Bodily Mutilation, and End of the Masculine West – Spectre Journal Taking Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies as a starting point, Tiffany Berruti looks at the reactionary right's fixation on trans persecution.

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The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China – Spectre Journal Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women's agency

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“Things That Are Survival for Us” – Spectre Journal Carol Jean Crooks was a Black dyke. Born October 12, 1946, she grew up on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and died alone in early 2022. She worked and fought all her life in relative obsc...

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“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…” – Spectre Journal Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.

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Against Left Pronatalism – Spectre Journal Robin Peterson takes on pronotalist arguments put forward by social democrats like Dustin Guastella.

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Nos tenemos entre nosotres – Spectre Journal Camila Valle details the history of self-managed abortion, showing that we have always healed collectively and that communities of care are where our power lies.

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Happy International Women's Day!

Here's some of our more recent pieces on feminism and women's struggle. Links in thread 👇🏽🧵

We'll be posting a case against pronatalism and birth-rate doomerism by @lesja.bsky.social this Tuesday (3/10) .

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”

My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Fascism, Trump, and Trumpism – Spectre Journal Justin Reed challenges Tood Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber's mechanical application of Trotskyist analysis to describe Trumpism, arguing that it should be understood as a part of an international neofas...

Justin Reed's essay is the latest in an ongoing discussion in the pages of Spectre concerning the relationship between Trumpism and fascism.

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both interested to read these and also feel this gives Chibber's analysis more credit than it deserves

Organizing in the Heart of Empire The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...

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Salar Mohandesi writing for @versobooks.bsky.social .

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure."

We're abundant spirits.

ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism.

Link to @hcampsm.bsky.social 's challenge to Chibber's narrow conception of materialism in the quoted post.

ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism.

You can find Bilal Zahoor's response to Chibber's separation of capitalist and colonialism history in the quoted post.

Promo Graphic for Resistant Communiqués (RC) for the first episode of season two. There is an image of Anna Lekas Miller on the left. The text above her reads, "Journalism, Social Media, and the Age of Disinformation with Anna Lekas Miller" Below that is the RC logo, and below that it reads "ResistantCommuniques.com @ResitantCommPod"

Resistant Communiqués is proud to return with the 1st episode of our 2nd season, featuring journalist & author @annalekasmiller.bsky.social. She discusses misinformation, the state of 21st-century journalism, & the role of content creators in the spread of information. bit.ly/rc2026annalekasmiller

It’s been one year since the Assad regime fell, prompting a sequence of events that culminated in a new government leading Damascus under Mohammed al-Jolani, an ex-militant in al-Qaeda's Syrian wing. Here, Têkoşîna Anarşîst evaluates the previous year and the existential threat facing Rojava today.

Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Deeply informative piece by Nazanin Shahrokni

'Who speaks for Iran?—and from where?'

via @journalspectre.bsky.social
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What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

Aaron Boehmer writing for @thenation.com .

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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

trying again:

"We may choose to foreground specific voices, but that choice should be explicit: these are the voices *we* amplify, not *the* voice of the Iranian people."

Nazanin Shahrokni for @journalspectre.bsky.social

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The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular c...

"The liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes are bound together. In order to resist their ruler’s divide and conquer strategy, the region’s working classes must oppose Kurdish oppression."

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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Unless you are in echo chamber, yr movement spaces (like mine) are likely imploding

"Solidarity is not grounded in identical analysis, synchronized outrage, or emotional unanimity. Solidarity is disciplined commitment to remain in relation under conditions that continually threaten relation itself"

Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

The brilliant Nazanin Shahrokni on who speaks for Iran:

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On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story – Spectre Journal Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism's, and in particular Vivek Chibber's, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.

spectrejournal.com/on-vivek-chi...