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This piece by @JackCopley6 works not only as a review of Timothy Mitchell's latest, but as a critique of fashionable theories of capitalism that dismiss production and surplus extraction in favor of novelties like rent-seeking. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/a…

Originally published in the New Left Review (@NewLeftReview), 'Costs of War' by Alameda Associate Lily Lynch is part of our After Order Project. Read it here: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I doubt anyone forgot, but just in case newleftreview.org/issues/ii152/a…

Lily Lynch: "Ukraine looks in a…similar situation to Russia: two countries hurtling toward demographic oblivion, in a conflict directed by a profiteering political elite and fought in part by the unwilling, the coerced, the foreign and the old." newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Good read. Really like Tim Mitchell's stuff & will def get to this soon. Glad to hear Capital as Power paradigm being acknowledged. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/a…

In NLR 159: Norm Smuggling? Katie Ebner-Landy evaluates Rahel Jaeggi’s reframing of progress as social problem-solving rather than development. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/a…

I wrote a critical review of Timothy Mitchell's fascinating and frustrating new book: The Alibi of Capital. There's no paywall, which I'm really pleased about!

I just finished an essay by Anton Jäger that may really change the way you look at the current political mess. The thing that stands out most is his concept of “hyperpolitics.” He charts we’ve moved past the “post-political” 90s where everything felt managed and ideologically++

Lily Lynch put it perfectly: by the very same criteria that part of the Western and "good Russian" public sphere uses to discuss "cracks in Putin's regime," Ukraine has long been in a state of deep and worsening political crisis. I disagree only that the political situations in the two countries are "remarkably similar." On the contrary, Russia has demonstrated far greater sociopolitical cohesiveness under intensifying pressure. The question is whether this difference is merely quantitative or qualitative: simply the result of a more effective authoritarian regime holding disintegrative tendencies in check, or the emergence of genuinely new sources of cohesion. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley assesses Timothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/a…

This is still one of my favorite papers, since it takes a stand against the intellectual shortcuts that have become so popular lately. It has been far too easy for people on both the left and the right to claim that capitalism is over and that we have somehow slipped back into++

Lily Lynch (@lilyslynch) at the NATO summit: 'Absent the propaganda of a youth-driven drone tech revolution in war, Ukraine looks in a remarkably similar situation to Russia: two countries hurtling toward demographic oblivion, in a conflict directed by a profiteering political elite and fought in part by the unwilling, the coerced, the foreign and the old.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Owen Hatherley on John Berger: ‘I have always found much of this subsequent work harder to take, caught between being moved by its hard humanity and irritated by its sententiousness.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

In NLR 159: Dynamics of American Capitalism. Javier Moreno Zacarés offers a critical appraisal of Jonathan Levy’s The Real Economy, the theoretical counterpart to his history of American capitalism. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/a…

Special issue of New Left Review on the Falkland Islands War newleftreview.org/issues/i134/ar…

Great discussion of the political economy of clean energy in China, the role of "China" in US climate politics, the trajectory of resource nationalism in the global south

Théo Bourgeron on the Le Pen verdict: 'Instead of awaiting a judicial deus ex machina, we should pay closer attention to tensions within the far-right bloc, between its working-class and petty-bourgeois electorate and its increasingly assertive business patrons.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

great read. a long and accessible history of Mongolia from the Qing Empire, socialism, and neoliberalism

Luke Roberts on Candace Hill-Montgomery: ‘Contradiction, paradox and ambiguity – so prominent in Hill-Montgomery’s titles – seem to form a strategy.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Rishi Agrawal on India’s strike wave: ‘Discontent has been accumulating for years. Yet unionizing is nearly impossible, thanks to the contract labour system and the fragmentation of supply chains.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…