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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 20h

The conspiracy theory that grabbed Karl Marx.

@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how Marx went down a loophole with a very specific Russian spy conspiracy.

Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #originstory

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h

I had a great time reading it but I'm used to much more boring research tbf

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god I know I totally fucked that up

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

I am extremely proud of the special offers I provide on the newsletter, they're a bargain

russiprocal.bsky.social @russiprocal.bsky.social · 2d

@iandunt.bsky.social Thank you for the generous offer! 😂

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 2d

@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social read Karl Marx's hilarious self evaluation 🤣

"A machine condemned to devour books and throw them in a changed form on the dunghill of history."

Listen to the full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #funny #originstory

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 3d

My son, doing politics A-level, uses @originstorypodcast.bsky.social as research. I have however advised him not to describe Marx as a ‘messy bitch’ in his coursework, regardless of how accurate it plainly is.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Welcome back to Season Eight: The Story of Socialism as @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of Karl Marx and the birth of Marxism. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #marxism #socialism #podcast #new #episode #originstory

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Oh you're in for a treat. I really loved that era. They fumble the ending but there's some great stuff on the way there.

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OliverCorlett @olivercorlett.bsky.social · 2d

I feel there is a difference between stock market crashes, which is what this is shaping up to be, and financial crises, which are usually the result of leverage (debt), particularly leverage that is not readily visible beforehand. The former --> recession. The latter --> banking collapse

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 2d

Sort of but the major difference here is the institutions in question aren’t banks and the risky assets don’t eventually drill down to real people’s homes

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Yes good point. In other words the difference is that these guys can be allowed to fail

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure financial journalists can correct me if I'm wrong, but it also seems reminiscent of how very large risky assets were concentrated in the balance sheet of a handful of too-big-to-fail institutions.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Yes good point. But god, imagine if I'd had to show my face, I'd have been fucked.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Part Two of Karl Marx: in which Karl goes wild in Soho, Bakunin acts like a godforesaken fucking maniac and we do a crash course in Marxist economics. Everything you need to know about one if the most important ideas in history.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Welcome back to Season Eight: The Story of Socialism as @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of Karl Marx and the birth of Marxism. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #marxism #socialism #podcast #new #episode #originstory

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

I was lucky to be there at the best moment for it, when it was full of potential. I dunno how someone starting a career now would find their audience, particularly on the liberal left.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

I now find myself willing the death of social media and using it myself far less. But there is actually a kind of privilege in that.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Met my partner, got a book contract, found an audience, built a career, made countless friends, been endlessly delighted and educated by people smarter than myself. I'm not sure it makes up for the corrosion of democracy exactly, but I've personally had a pretty good time.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, I am asking where on earth the Short money *goes* and what they are spending it on. They are not doing meaningful parliamentary scrutiny. They are somehow less credible, spending-wise, than Reform, who are are a shoestring operation!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

The cast list for Celebrity Traitors is ridiculously impressive. I never know who the fuck anyone is on celebrity things, but I know almost all these people. It's making me feel quite young.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Xxx

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 3d

Opinion | Starmer has not prioritised growth, not really. He has done what British governments have been doing for over a decade: prioritising anti-immigration policy and focusing on growth only where it does not interfere with it

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Read more: trib.al/HHn51XN

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