Mike Watson

Such a bad move from Academia.edu. Never much liked the platform, but putting illustrators out of business is a really shi**y idea.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

IN DEFENCE OF MARXIST HUMANISM (FLOWERS FOR MARX PT. 3) (w/ Matt McManus) YouTube video by Philosophy Portal

I discuss Marxist humanism and reformism with Cadell Last

youtube.com/watch?si=-oCbXHIyNu2igHUl&v=IF4rjrqA7lI&feature=youtu.be

😢

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Neologisms such as Micro-retirement are Gaslighting the Public:

revolpress.substack.com/p/neologisms...

Read the full text here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Revol Press Revol Press is an author-oriented publisher dedicated to producing incisive social and cultural critique.

Revol Press is an independent press dedicated to critique of political and cultural systems.

Help us to keep producing critical books by:

Checking out our website: revolpress.com

Following us on insta: revol_press

Following us on substack: revol_press

Buying our books.

Thanks — In Solidarity!

Neologisms such as Micro-retirement are Gaslighting the Public: We need to take Workplace Mental Health Seriously Mike Watson examines the phenomenon of the workplace neologism and argues that terms such as "micro-retirement" obscure the origins of worker discontent.

A new text by me on Revol Press substack:

revolpress.substack.com/p/neologisms...

This, but you are trying to write about a mix of Hegel, Adorno, and something darkly political.

RIP Diane Keaton

YouTube video by Current Affairs Ben Shapiro's New Book Is a Total Embarrassment

Video version of our review of Ben Shapiro's new book is out with @currentaffairs.bsky.social

youtu.be/_M7FcvSpv_I?...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

WIRED spoke with Mark Bray, the Rutgers historian trying to flee to Spain with his family after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back from the airport on his first attempt.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

They don't write books or design covers like this anymore:

I know it's popular to say if Stephen Miller got laid and/or wasn't picked on in school he wouldn't be like he is. As someone who didn't get laid and got picked on in school I'm pretty sure there is something more deeply wrong with him than tough school days.

Marx saw the issue of censorship as central to his critique of the economic system.

Read more here on Revol Press's substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...

Yeah so the Nordic model is not at all what people think it, is (it's not even a model really) and it's now come so far from its original potential that it looks outside. Perhaps little sense grounding so much of the western left's discussion on it then. 🤷‍♂️

The book I'm currently working on for Anthem Press:

Marx and Censorship: Countering the Liberal and Trumpian Threat An excerpt from Daniel Tutt's Foreword for Flowers for Marx

See below is an excerpt from Daniel Tutt’s Foreword to the book Flowers for Marx (Revol Press), which examines the tendency towards censorship currently seen in the US and links it to Marx’s thought.

revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...

*often!

And I have written in Jacobin itself about the rate at which the vestiges of social welfarism are collapsing here! (better... have all but collpased).

Generally however, the waxing lyrical over the superior systems of Nordic/Scandavian states is laughable, and leftists here oftee do literally laugh at it. What's bizzare is people who don't know these countries persist with the myth regardless.

The only comment that is really off there on Scandavia/the Nordics is the one about them only managing what they do as they have small populations...

Hmm, not sure on the full context but always interesting how wrong western leftists get it wrong when it comes to the Nordics. Living there myself some of these comments seem accurate. Have you spent much time in the Nordics, and in the last few years?

YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast Pop Life: Last Rites: The End of Megadeth

Great podcast on Megadeth and the end of their path:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hG...

The Trump administration conflates centrists and the 'radical left' on a regular basis in its attacks. There may soon be nothing to be gained for anyone in playing it cautiously. The entire left may as well be radical, given the risks of being even a moderate.

A transcript of a talk by Fisher on education and capitalism. On the Revol Press Substack.

revolpress.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

Towards a Free Education: Conference Speech Transcript – Mark Fisher (2013) The late Mark Fisher on neoliberalism, education, and the task of rebuilding the left to counteract capitalist realism.

See on the Revol Press substack a transcript of a talk by Mark Fisher on education and capitalism, given at the MACRO museum, Rome, in 2013.

revolpress.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

Farage will use immigration to gain power, like he used it to bring the UK out of Europe. The facts are not important to him.