Javier Moreno Zacarés

Sparta was an authoritarian state that suppressed all forms of cultural and political expression in order to brainwash its citizens into a life dedicated to war. Every year they carried out a murderous campaign against their slave population, the Helots, to keep them in place.

Now published: 'Alien Powers? Use-Value and Surplus-Profit in the Movement of Value' by Thomas J. Watson.

ICYMI: @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro , @beniuliano.bsky.social , and @alastairiles.bsky.social 's critique of land sparing and agricultural intensification is still live on our website.

Another 'it's all in vol.3, bro' bro

Genocide

some reasonable words from our tech overlords

This could be your walk to work

Just reposting in case of interest. Applications close next week. Come to work with @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Jack Copley, Eugenia Giraudo and me!

never gets old

nice labor is it surplus

Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025 In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Recién publicado en la REC el monográfico "Espacio y economía heterodoxa: un diálogo interdisciplinar sobre las geografías del capitalismo"
Con textos chulísimos para corroborar que no hemos asistido al fin de la historia. Seguimos pensando los espacios del capitalismo.
👉 www.upo.es/revistas/ind...

Economía Crítica en Acción III: Capitalismo, crisis y tendencias Uda Ikastaro hau hausnarketarako eta eztabaidarako gune gisa aurkezten da, kapitalismoa erreprodukzio sozialeko sistema gisa dituen kontraesanak ulertzeko. Ikuspegi kritiko eta osatuaren bidez, hiru d...

Economía Crítica en Acción III: Capitalismo, crisis y tendencias

Uztailak 21 eta 22
Bizkaia Aretoa (Bilbao)

@agarzon.substack.com @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @harveymurenow.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @earuze.bsky.social @tatianallaguno.bsky.social eta gehiago.

www.uik.eus/es/curso/eco...

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The political economy of housing: the case of Turkey Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2025)

🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP

📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
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💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...

“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social

Hola Julio, tienes algo de Andalucía antes de la república? Anarquismo en el campo andaluz en la crisis finisecular, trienio bolchevique, etc.?

On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

Next event from the Durham International Political Economy Group: Iker Jáuregui (Pompeu Frabra), Capitalism and Separation. Thursday May 29th. As ever, everybody welcome.

Some off-the-shelf anarchist literature. Two volumes on the right have primary material. Better ask @juliomtzcava.bsky.social

what are you cooking?

Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living.

Next event from the Durham International Political Economy Group: Iker Jáuregui (Pompeu Frabra), Capitalism and Separation. Thursday May 29th. As ever, everybody welcome.

¿China se está deshaciendo de la deuda de EE. UU.?

A simple vista, parece que sí: el Reino Unido ya es el segundo mayor tenedor.

Pero la historia real es más compleja.

Pekín se prepara para la guerra financiera.

Hilo🧵

Residential Capitalism reviewed by Alejandro Fernández Pérez

Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, ....

New paper on 🏠💥

"Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism"

With Timothy Blackwell in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy.

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