Mike McCarthy
@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
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Mike McCarthy
@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Love to see that @jamellebouie.net engaged with my @hammerandhope.bsky.social essay on class, identity, black politics, labor and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in depth today at the @nytimes.com. I’m a bit blown away. Shared below as a thread:
Thoughts on governance and compromise
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thoughts on governance and compromise
This by @runestahl.bsky.social is great. Left populism's embrace of some culturally conservative positions like anti-immigration has been an utter failure. It's not just morally a dead end, its an electoral one as well -- see also Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This by @runestahl.bsky.social is great. Left populism's embrace of some culturally conservative positions like anti-immigration has been an utter failure. It's not just morally a dead end, its an electoral one as well -- see also Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
Thinking Alan Dershowitz is mainstream is beyond self parody.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Thinking Alan Dershowitz is mainstream is beyond self parody.
Nobody on the right goes: "OK, but is he really a communist? Here is a historical comparison suggesting otherwise."
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nobody on the right goes: "OK, but is he really a communist? Here is a historical comparison suggesting otherwise."
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
This outstanding essay by @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in Hammer and Hope captures a frustration that I have long felt with a certain strand of left opinion-makers. hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This outstanding essay by @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in Hammer and Hope captures a frustration that I have long felt with a certain strand of left opinion-makers. hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
I wrote up some thoughts on the place of class, identity, and left organization in NYC's election for the @hammerandhope.bsky.social newsletter:
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race overturns the destructive bipartisan consensus that identity politics are simply a dead end.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race overturns the destructive bipartisan consensus that identity politics are simply a dead end.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I wrote up some thoughts on the place of class, identity, and left organization in NYC's election for the @hammerandhope.bsky.social newsletter:
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race overturns the destructive bipartisan consensus that identity politics are simply a dead end.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race overturns the destructive bipartisan consensus that identity politics are simply a dead end.
OK, this is a funny typo in something I am writing: "fast and free city bud service"
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
OK, this is a funny typo in something I am writing: "fast and free city bud service"
A good reason why it is a bad idea to treat educational attainment as a proxy for economic class, even if it does generate important cultural distinctions and divisions.
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A good reason why it is a bad idea to treat educational attainment as a proxy for economic class, even if it does generate important cultural distinctions and divisions.
Even better, what if we have 100 year mortgages where our future progeny pay back the bank in labor hours.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Even better, what if we have 100 year mortgages where our future progeny pay back the bank in labor hours.
Same Saturday night Max Weber. We definitely live in an age of high political vanity. As Weber suggests, what comes of it is violence.
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Same Saturday night Max Weber. We definitely live in an age of high political vanity. As Weber suggests, what comes of it is violence.
There is no such thing as a coherent working-class ideology or culture that can said to be of that class, it's doesn't exist and never has.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There is no such thing as a coherent working-class ideology or culture that can said to be of that class, it's doesn't exist and never has.
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
The whole book is open access, and it includes new work on by Karen Ng, Jose Medina, Breno Santos, Hilkje Hänel and more! The topic is the intersection between recognition theory and epistemic injustice.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5...
Understanding Social Struggles
A shift of perspective on social struggles – bridging theories of epistemic injustice and recognition theories.
www.transcript-verlag.de
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The whole book is open access, and it includes new work on by Karen Ng, Jose Medina, Breno Santos, Hilkje Hänel and more! The topic is the intersection between recognition theory and epistemic injustice.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5...
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
now online! bsky.app/profile/comi...
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
now online! bsky.app/profile/comi...
Democratizing finance by turning everyone into a venture capitalist.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Democratizing finance by turning everyone into a venture capitalist.
Authors find increase in cultural protest (left: war, enviro, + right: anti-immigrant, anti-EU, and both: Covid pro and anti-containment measures) across Europe and diminishing economic protests, which are typically led by unions. Where is European labor these days?
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Authors find increase in cultural protest (left: war, enviro, + right: anti-immigrant, anti-EU, and both: Covid pro and anti-containment measures) across Europe and diminishing economic protests, which are typically led by unions. Where is European labor these days?
The Mamdani campaign, via its ties to DSA and working-class groups like taxi drivers, service workers, immigrants, knocked the last nail into the coffin of the economistic approach to politics. Now that the so-called anti-woke are more undead than alive, maybe we can finally understand the phenom.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Mamdani campaign, via its ties to DSA and working-class groups like taxi drivers, service workers, immigrants, knocked the last nail into the coffin of the economistic approach to politics. Now that the so-called anti-woke are more undead than alive, maybe we can finally understand the phenom.
Billionaires, so passé!
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Billionaires, so passé!
Let's see what happens after he makes a bunch of parents miss their kid's soccer game this weekend.
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Let's see what happens after he makes a bunch of parents miss their kid's soccer game this weekend.
It's amazing that the reactionary Silicon Valley right think that authoritarian forms of rule will be more efficient.
"With less than 24 hours to go...the Trump administration has not publicly shared a list.. or told many of the airports bracing for cuts how flights may be canceled."
"With less than 24 hours to go...the Trump administration has not publicly shared a list.. or told many of the airports bracing for cuts how flights may be canceled."
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's amazing that the reactionary Silicon Valley right think that authoritarian forms of rule will be more efficient.
"With less than 24 hours to go...the Trump administration has not publicly shared a list.. or told many of the airports bracing for cuts how flights may be canceled."
"With less than 24 hours to go...the Trump administration has not publicly shared a list.. or told many of the airports bracing for cuts how flights may be canceled."
I'll be teaching this whole debate in my grad seminar on class analysis next quarter. Genuinely excited to dig into this!
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'll be teaching this whole debate in my grad seminar on class analysis next quarter. Genuinely excited to dig into this!
How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with @shahinvallee.bsky.social to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with @shahinvallee.bsky.social to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!
Great piece by @schooldaves.bsky.social on the straightjacket the bond market imposes on municipal socialism.
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
Paying for It | David I. Backer
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
thebaffler.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Great piece by @schooldaves.bsky.social on the straightjacket the bond market imposes on municipal socialism.
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
Without the night shift, there is no morning.
Without the night shift, there is no morning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Without the night shift, there is no morning.
Reposted by Mike McCarthy
Coming up on Nov. 4 at 4pm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social &
@cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in NYC!
@cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in NYC!
attn NYC! We have a great event coming up at The New School on Nov. 4 at 4pm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social &
@cedricdurand.bsky.social in conversation about their new books from @versobooks.bsky.social & the future of capitalism. Open to to the public w registration: event.newschool.edu/economicssem...
@cedricdurand.bsky.social in conversation about their new books from @versobooks.bsky.social & the future of capitalism. Open to to the public w registration: event.newschool.edu/economicssem...
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Coming up on Nov. 4 at 4pm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social &
@cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in NYC!
@cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in NYC!