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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3h

Today is David Harvey's 90th birthday! To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works

October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. Be sure to check out David Harvey at...

David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 10h

Agadoo doo doo, vast and trunkless legs of stone
Agadoo doo doo, desert pedestal alone
Antique land, on the sand, shattered visage, cold command
Look on works and despair, Ozymandias must moan

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19h

The name on the plinth is Ozymandias
Christopher Robin despaired with Alice
Two trunkless legs are all that stand
Except for a face and lots of sand
Says Alice

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𝙰 𝚂𝚄𝙽𝙽𝚈 𝙳𝙰𝚈 @ajsunnyday.bsky.social · 1d

Cool offering from @versobooks.bsky.social: "October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works."
"His works are essential to understanding Marx's Capital, and the carnage of capitalism."

October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. For fifty years David Harvey has wri...

Ahead of the budget, Rachel Reeves should be out making her arguments. Instead, there is silence – and a huge opportunity for Labour’s opponents, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 1d

I want one, where did you get it?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 1d

It's a classic example of "you're trying to get to B? Well I wouldn't start from here!" Starmer and Reeves had loaded their failure before they even started.

With living standards falling and the far right on the rise, the chancellor has the power to make decisions, not simply accept diktats from the markets, says lecturer in political economy Sahil Dutta

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Anyway. Mad about capitalism again

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 2d

And so it begins.

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 2d

💯 this. The economic policy of this govt is a political choice about who bears to gain or lose, not some force of nature driven by the bond markets.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The UK bond markets have become a political trap that strangles public spending. But there’s a way out | Sahil Dutta

With living standards falling and the far right on the rise, the chancellor has the power to make decisions, not simply accept diktats from the markets, says lecturer in political economy Sahil Dutta

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The UK bond markets have become a political trap that strangles public spending. But there’s a way out | Sahil Dutta

Racist party in racism shocker. Reform MP Sarah Pochin has been forced to apologise after saying "it drives me mad when I see adverts full ...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Why are the right embracing open racism? It has something to do with the collapse of hegemony-oriented politics.

Racism and the Right

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 3d

This begins with Labour understanding who their electorate are. Something the party has shown no curiosity about whatsoever.

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3d

I fully accept that things are Not Good at the moment for the Labour Party, and I personally find some of the more Blue Labour stuff a bit grim, but I'd like to hear someone explain what the strategy should be that results in the government retaining a majority.

🎃🕷️Will Jennings 🦇🎃 @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 3d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (26-27 Oct) has Labour on their lowest figure ever recorded by YouGov, with the Greens on their highest

Reform UK: 27% (+1 from 19-20 Oct)
Labour: 17% (-3)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Greens: 16% (+1)
Lib Dems: 15% (=)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found. Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested. Continue reading...

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 3d

This country has gone mad.

Hip Priest @hippriest.bsky.social · 3d

We will fight them on the quiches

Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up.

Regurgitated from my Twitter account

Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 6d

Weekend read?

In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.

Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social

There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 5d

A return to an old favourite with sweet potato falafel (squidgy 🤢) and harissa mayonnaise (but not for me). I miss you #KeithFloyd

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🎃🕷️Will Jennings 🦇🎃 @drjennings.bsky.social · 5d

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 5d

"Legitimate concerns" 🙄

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine how much more money companies could make if they stopped ruthlessly framing their adverts to shift as much product as possible to as many people as possible and just pandered to weirdo racists instead!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 5d

Human existence has only been about wage labor for ~0.1% of our history. Having a job isn’t the same as having a purpose, and there’s nothing bad about losing jobs. The only way that could ever be a problem is if a bunch of assholes had tied all of our basic needs to our usefulness to rich people.

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 5d

Watching #bbcpnw and wondering why they're all so afraid to say Pochin's comments are racist.

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Peter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly this. He was allowed free rein to sound "tough" without any of the implications being explored.