Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism

Only the best for the end of exams

Finishing marking exams

Nothing makes me prouder than a student who remembers a core lesson years later lol

Zarathustra Matt McManus Twitter anon getting worked over a chance to be that mythic guy who dunks on an academic never gets old. Matt said, several years ago at this point, in a course of his that the Nazis began as a counter to Communists and Social Democrats. I was there and heard it with my own ears.

There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from

Looks very interesting. Saved for tomorrow (once exam mountain is diminished)

🧵1/🧵 Nicola Countouris and I have a NEW PAPER OUT on this Labour Day! We aim to explore the depths of work subordination and managerial prerogatives in modern democracies papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

If only...

It's almost as if there's this kind of reactionary strand in US libertarianism. If only there was a book out there to put all of this in historical context...

Good piece by Ben Burgis for Jacobin. I've been thinking for a long time about writing a piece on the worthwhile libertarian arguments about cooperatives , and Ben does a great job of stating some core responses.

jacobin.com/2024/05/social…

In my latest for Jacobin, I address Nozick’s argument that free market capitalism is a “framework for utopias” and anyone who cares about workplace democracy can just start a coop:

Its been a sad and really busy week; first time in a long time I've been really looking forward to the summer and some decompression.

My new piece for Commonweal Magazine

'When the troll is not just a provocateur, he is usually a counter-puncher. And this is perhaps one reason so many trolls are right-wingers.' — @mattpolprof

'Troll in Chief'
commonwealmagazine.org/troll-chief

Do!

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Exactly

Matt McManus Because they were never anti-authority. They were against people they didn't like having authority.