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Mike Watson
@mikerwatson.bsky.social
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Media and art theorist. PhD Goldsmiths College. Texts for Jacobin, Guardian, Radical Philosophy Writer/co-founder: revolpress.com
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 1d
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 2d
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 2d
A new text by me on Revol Press substack:

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Neologisms such as Micro-retirement are Gaslighting the Public: We need to take Workplace Mental Health Seriously
Mike Watson examines the phenomenon of the workplace neologism and argues that terms such as "micro-retirement" obscure the origins of worker discontent.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 4d
This, but you are trying to write about a mix of Hegel, Adorno, and something darkly political.

RIP Diane Keaton
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 4d
Sums up how I feel about losing Diane Keaton.
Something's Gotta Give - Diane Keaton Crying - Typical Writer!!
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 6d
Video version of our review of Ben Shapiro's new book is out with @currentaffairs.bsky.social

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Ben Shapiro's New Book Is a Total Embarrassment
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 7d
WIRED spoke with Mark Bray, the Rutgers historian trying to flee to Spain with his family after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back from the airport on his first attempt.

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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 8d
They don't write books or design covers like this anymore:
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Eric @astroeric12.bsky.social · 14d
I know it's popular to say if Stephen Miller got laid and/or wasn't picked on in school he wouldn't be like he is. As someone who didn't get laid and got picked on in school I'm pretty sure there is something more deeply wrong with him than tough school days.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 15d
Marx saw the issue of censorship as central to his critique of the economic system.

Read more here on Revol Press's substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 15d
Yeah so the Nordic model is not at all what people think it, is (it's not even a model really) and it's now come so far from its original potential that it looks outside. Perhaps little sense grounding so much of the western left's discussion on it then. 🤷‍♂️
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Natalie Davis @nataliedavis.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Anglophone Liberal Socialism Meets Its Nordic Counterpart https://jacobin.com/2025/09/liberalism-socialism-scandinavia-anglosphere-mill-meidner/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Anglophone Liberal Socialism Meets Its Nordic Counterpart
While the Nordic countries have long proved capable of reconciling the best aspects of liberalism with socialism, the relationship in the Anglosphere has always been troubled. A new book, and recent events in the world, suggest this may be changing.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 16d
The book I'm currently working on for Anthem Press:
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 16d
See below is an excerpt from Daniel Tutt’s Foreword to the book Flowers for Marx (Revol Press), which examines the tendency towards censorship currently seen in the US and links it to Marx’s thought.

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Marx and Censorship: Countering the Liberal and Trumpian Threat
An excerpt from Daniel Tutt's Foreword for Flowers for Marx
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 17d
*often!
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 17d
And I have written in Jacobin itself about the rate at which the vestiges of social welfarism are collapsing here! (better... have all but collpased).
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 17d
Generally however, the waxing lyrical over the superior systems of Nordic/Scandavian states is laughable, and leftists here oftee do literally laugh at it. What's bizzare is people who don't know these countries persist with the myth regardless.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 17d
The only comment that is really off there on Scandavia/the Nordics is the one about them only managing what they do as they have small populations...
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 17d
Hmm, not sure on the full context but always interesting how wrong western leftists get it wrong when it comes to the Nordics. Living there myself some of these comments seem accurate. Have you spent much time in the Nordics, and in the last few years?
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 18d
Great podcast on Megadeth and the end of their path:

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Pop Life: Last Rites: The End of Megadeth
YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 20d
The Trump administration conflates centrists and the 'radical left' on a regular basis in its attacks. There may soon be nothing to be gained for anyone in playing it cautiously. The entire left may as well be radical, given the risks of being even a moderate.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 22d
A transcript of a talk by Fisher on education and capitalism. On the Revol Press Substack.

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 23d
See on the Revol Press substack a transcript of a talk by Mark Fisher on education and capitalism, given at the MACRO museum, Rome, in 2013.

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Towards a Free Education: Conference Speech Transcript – Mark Fisher (2013)
The late Mark Fisher on neoliberalism, education, and the task of rebuilding the left to counteract capitalist realism.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24d
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 24d
Farage will use immigration to gain power, like he used it to bring the UK out of Europe. The facts are not important to him.
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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 24d
yeah and the same goes if you live the other side of the atlantic...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25d
More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.