Barnaby Raine
@BarnabyRaine
History PhD @Columbia, asking why it became so hard to imagine the end of capitalism. Faculty @BklynInstitute, editor @Salvagedotzone. Waiting for Moshiach.
I am so grateful to this wonderful podcast for giving me 40 minutes to set out my thoughts on the stakes of this moment. Please give it a listen, I got to explain where I'm coming from as a Jewish Marxist: open.spotify.com/episode/3BksCE…
If you think calling for the death of soldiers who shoot starving people as they run towards food targets me as a Jew, you really show what you think Jews are and it's not pretty
“The end goal is seizing the means of production” Best of luck, NYC
How is this happening simultaneously, I feel like I’m going more insane every day
How is this happening simultaneously, I feel like I’m going more insane every day
them: so what kind of mayor does nyc need right now? me:
Comrade Arya Rajendran, age 21 new Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala. She will be the youngest mayor of a major city in the world. Here she leads a detachment of Red Volunteers in @CPIMKerala. #CPIM #LeftAlternative #Communist
Alexandra Kollontai on needing a feeling of love or "warm emotions" to bring true solidarity and as a trait of good organizing character.
Merz on Fox News blames “imported antisemitism” on the “large numbers of migrants”
Book jacket for True Materialism, out September 16 and available for pre-order now!
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85: Assessing the Aftermath | BISR faculty @materialist_jew, @HHamayel2, @BarnabyRaine and K. Soraya Batmanghelichi place the Gaza War ceasefire in the context of the conflict’s broader development | buff.ly/4hzJXV7
"Gaza, nothing's impossible." Yaqeen Hammad was killed today. Here, she describes how she made this contraption to cook despite Israel's cutting off of gas. May you be a bird in paradise, Yaqeen.
"The value-form is Marx’s most significant contribution to critical social theory." Read the introduction to Absolute Ethical Life: sup.org/books/politics…
Nah Jewish American food is delicioooooous. A hot turkey Reuben on marbled rye with no cheese and extra sauerkraut and dressing and a black cherry soda??? With some dill potato salad and pickles and mustard??? Honeeeyyyyy stopp , what do you order ?? You don’t like gefilte…
Jews suck at food, not surprising they didn’t support their Delis as much as they should have
Actually, those of us from different cultures have taught the Brits new ways to eat, drink and make music together, to sing and dance and cry together. You know this is true because you live in London but you pretend otherwise and so you feed racism
'We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.' Sir Keir Starmer announces measures which he says will help control the number of immigrants coming into the country to live and work.
Love to live in a world where these are the only two options
Important new book from a leading genocide scholar, @martinshawx, highlighting the shift from a Western-run order presenting genocide as the savage property of its minor challengers back to the old norm of genocide as the instrument of that order agendapub.com/page/detail/th…