David Black

Where IS Paul Mason Going? Marx, Marcuse and the Magic of Machines

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Citizen Marx The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought

Just finished @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought - easily one of the best books I’ve read in recent years.

Well-researched but also super timely and generative (see: No Kings). Read it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Art Enclosure: the Spectacle and the Gallery Museum System

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Membership card of the Fraternal Democrats

1851 novel by Ernst Jones, Chartist lead and friend of Marx and Engels.Today, with the British left in Your Party making the latest attempt to regroup and unify its forces, Ernst Jones’ satire of a drunken evening serves as a sobering reminder: plus ça change. blackd.substack.com/p/as-soon-as...

The Don of Détournement Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock

TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hy...

Degrowth Communism and Metabolism Kohei Saito on how we need to talk about Engels

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Degrowth Communism and Metabolism Kohei Saito on how we need to talk about Engels

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The Don of Détournement Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock

TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hy...

“You can’t spend five minutes with Miller and not understand there is something wrong with him, some point on the spectrum where he dwells, alone...“You see,” Bannon said, when I finished with my genuinely alarming twenty minutes with Miller and came out of his office, "Goebbels.”' - Michael Wolff

Membership card of the Fraternal Democrats

1851 novel by Ernst Jones, Chartist lead and friend of Marx and Engels.Today, with the British left in Your Party making the latest attempt to regroup and unify its forces, Ernst Jones’ satire of a drunken evening serves as a sobering reminder: plus ça change. blackd.substack.com/p/as-soon-as...

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(In the Amazon Twilight Zone no one can hear you scream)

1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising Buy 1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising by Black, David, Ford, Chris, McDonnell MP, John, Harney, George Julian, Aveling, Edward (ISBN: 9798270579333) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Memo to #ZarahSultana #JohnMcDonnell on the #Chartists:
'By challenging the prevailing hegemony relating to the events and significance of 1839, this book assists us greatly in understanding the potential for future challenges to the system.' New revised edition 2025
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4 November is anniversary of the Newport Rising
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'The secret is to say everything!' Gianfranco Sanguinetti 1948-2025. The Situationist who took on the Spectacle from below - and behind

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Bloquons Tout, Blocchiamo Tutto (steps towards Blocking Everything)

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#GlobalSumudFlotilla #Gaza #EndTheSiege #Bloquonstout #BlocchiamoTutto

The Empire Never Ended Pacôme Thiellement on Philip K Dick's Exegesis

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This year’s Anarchists of London Bookfair takes place on Saturday 20 September at the Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel under Waterloo Station starting 10 a.m.
B.P.C. Books will be sharing a table with Chronos Press.

YouTube video by Out Of The Blank Out Of The Blank #1800 - David Black

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1525 - The German Peasant War Re-assessed Did Marx and Engels get it right?

‘Listen, dear brothers, you have embittered the hearts of your lords so greatly with an excess of gall that they will never be sweetened again’. The current rebellion was so far advanced any turning back would end in mass slaughter and a new stage of 'slavery'.
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500 Years On: The German Peasant War of 1525 Review of Lyndal Roper's 'Summer of Fire and Blood'

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Scotland,the Slave-Trade and the Red Republicans On Helen Macfarlane

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1525 German Peasants

Lyndal Roper’s book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War 1525 aims ‘to understand the world the peasants inhabited through uncovering the rich details of their daily lives, and to reconstruct their beliefs…’ Reviewed at thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk/wp/the-1525-...

LSD Alchemy in Deepest Wales Below the Pavement the Beach Read

The last couple of years have seen Operation Julie: the Musical; The Microdot Gang: The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World by James Wyllie; new edition of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts. And there's this
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Book: LSD Underground

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The Expressionist and the Nazis GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director

The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
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The Expressionist and the Nazis GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director

The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
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1839: The Chartist Insurrection - re-issued as an ebook 'A revolutionary handbook’

1839: The Chartist Insurrection - re-issued as an ebook - @pure-culture.bsky.social
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Go Canny Go A Song for the Durham Miners Gala 2025

My contribution to this year’s #DurhamMinersGala held on 12 July 25, going since 1871, and - even though there is no longer mining stands to this day as a powerful voice of a North-East working class tradition that still refuses to lie down and die. blackd.substack.com/p/by-the-ban...