Adam David Morton

YouTube video by CSSGJ Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism.

The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!

Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...

Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...

What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Found in one of my volumes of the Collected Works of V.I. Lenin - a packet label from the Kalinin Printing Works (now the city of Tver) of Progress Publishers, with my collected set

What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?

This blog post originally featured on my personal blog For the Desk Drawer, which now no longer exists. I thought it was transferred to @ppesydney.bsky.social but this was not so. Here it is for for the first time on PPE.

Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...

Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development
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Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
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The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

Now that’s what I call some Pashukanis — For the student members of the @ppesydney.bsky.social Past & Present Reading Group @rikiscanlan.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitic...

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The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...

There’s a crafted version and then a dollar shop version. This is the crafted version of Großraum and today’s geopolitics

Thank you Aida and hope you are well!

Spaces of Capital and Rosa Luxemburg - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) The article mentioned in this post ‘The Enduring Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital‘, is finally confirmed for publication in hard copy in the Journal of International Relations...

From the archive, published in @jird-jour.bsky.social

The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...

From October on the geopolitics of Venezuela by @armandovanrankinir.bsky.social

“Venezuela appears in the equation as a more feasible and less geopolitically risky target, and one more profitable in the political calculations of MAGA’s interlocutors”.

Been Undone - Dark-Side Mix

Wow a New Year and more new @itspetergabriel.bsky.social - the track Been Undone is stunning. Thank you!

Review of Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

To commence 2026 on @ppesydney.bsky.social we start the year with Kevin Gray reviewing @alfnilsen.bsky.social *Southern Interregnum* published with @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, online first (open access).
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Novel Reading in 2025 - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “nov...

My "novel" reading in 2025 - always loosely defined - with a nod here in the list to @criveragarza.bsky.social who's literary archive was acquired this year as part of the fabulous Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at University of Texas, Austin
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) All the details on the next text selected by the Past & Present Reading Group, commencing in 2026.

The next text to start 2026 in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social has been announced @plutopress.bsky.social

Money in the 21st Century - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) With an eye on Stablecoin, what struggles are currently underway to shape the future of money issuance, banking and finance?

Jamie Morgan on Money in the 21st Century

Mainstreaming Marxism: on the anarchic structure of world economy This article argues that issues of class and race have been excluded from considerations of the anarchic structure of world economy. By studying together s

More on the “mainstreaming of Marxism” here with International Affairs
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What another “mainstreaming” of Marxist critique!? Mark Carney proves he’s environmentally-friendly by recycling Giovanni Arrighi - on the variable geometry (of imperialism) 1/2
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Revolutions Are Back! The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion. By Mark R. Beissinger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xx+566. $110.00 (clot...

Revolutions are Back! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades.

Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇

Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself
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Clearly not dancing the dialectic with Bertell Ollman - Dialectic investments in The Economist (15-21 November 2025)

Mapping the World of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and ...

My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland*
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Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary fro...

Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com