Aaron Irion

I started a Substack! For now, it's housing some of my recent writing and presentations. But soon I'll be writing some new articles for the page. Subscribe if you like! My introductory post, explaining what I intend to do with the space, is linked in the post below this one.

I've just posted a new article on my Substack, a critical review and symptomatic reading of the French populist intellectual Jean-Claude Michéa. Give it a read! thefutureagain.substack.com/p/heresy-commo…

@RajuJDas Is this quote from the new book?

‘capital…is too necessary to us that we cannot allow it to fail… [A] revolutionary overthrow of this capitalist economic system is not anything that’s conceivable at the present time. It will not happen, … and we have to make sure that it does not happen’ (David Harvey).

Marx begins Capital Vol. 1 with a vision of a new society of associated producers (socialism) and ends it with the agenda of the expropriation of the expropriators. Yet many Marxists today (e.g. David Harvey) know a great deal about Marx and still oppose the idea of revolution.

@dai_alectic @VersoBooks @reformparty_uk I'll look forward to reading this!

Happy to have agreed to write a new book with @VersoBooks. My very talented mate Vlad Bortun & I will be writing an analysis of @reformparty_uk as a political movement. We’ll explore their social base, funders, rhetoric, policies & lots more. Due in late 2027

@besttrousers @AlcazarViala They are philosophical concepts, not literal invocations. Less charts, more Nietzsche, my friend!

@AlcazarViala @aaririon I mean, yeah, its the Odyssey. Apollo and Dionysius aren't key components?

Nolan est bloqué dans The Dark Knight depuis presque 20 ans. Ni Apollon ni Dionysos à l'image, c'est un culte d'Hadès, tout est mort. Le grandiose de la Grèce archaïque, c'est sa vitalité solaire, amorale, légère et pourtant tragique. Pas étonnant qu'une civilisation sénile comme la nôtre produise une réinterprétation digne d'un documentaire sur les EHPAD.

@thezachloeffler And this one lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/…

Time to revive that Dolar essay on smoking and communism from c. 2010

@PolitlcsUK @guardian Rube Goldberg machine ass coup

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has a plan to return to Westminster "within weeks" with several MPs prepared to resign to trigger a by-election for him He reportedly has the backing of over 80 Labour MPs, enough to trigger a leadership election [@guardian]

@LetovCCRU 🙏

@aaririon ^

i will be uploading this lecture tomorrow even though it has shitty audio quality and has about six minutes missing from the middle section

@LetovCCRU That would be great if it’s possible, but of course no worries if not. I’m tied up and can’t listen live but would love to later on

@aaririon i dont think so, but ill record it myself

you can listen to Reza's lecture here radio.cooper.edu starting at about an hour

@DavidGriscom Rest in peace. If That Ain’t Country is one of my favorites—absolutely wonderful all American songwriting that really gets to the heart of this country, I think

Hearing David Allan Coe has passed. A man who for better and for worse, lived his life like a country song. Rest easy youtu.be/MK2Bum5vepw?si…

@matthiasellis Congrats—so well deserved!

@SohrabAhmari The great @NicolasDVillar1 made a similar observation several years ago. I’ve thought of this passage from him every time something horrible like this happens palladiummag.com/2020/03/09/do-…

The most notable thing about Cole Allen Thomas (and other recent would-be assassins) is that their political project is divorced from any larger project of mass social change. He reflects the collapse of grand narratives. My essay. unherd.com/2026/04/cole-t…

Оригиналы фотографий (без колоризации). «И когда Франция стала подсчитывать своих героев и мучеников, она с удивлением обнаружила, что большинство их - коммунисты». — Луи Арагон

@souljagoyteller I’m a Marxist so I’m obviously not impartial but I honestly think part of that is that the other variants of socialism were really not fit for purpose in the age of industrial capitalism. Their theories seemed quaint by like the 1840s, totally of a bygone age

Really interesting how much Marxism subsumed all other variants of socialism, even by the 1910s. Non-Marxian socialism either died, became liberals, or became fascists

@JulianNHofmann @VeithSelk @npl_review I need to learn German asap so I can read this 😂

OUT NOW: Mit @VeithSelk habe ich in der @npl_review den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum »Aufstieg des Postliberalismus und der Zukunft des Liberalismus« aufgearbeitet. Unser Rezensionsaufsatz im Open Access: DOI: doi.org/10.48694/npl.5… 
Download (PDF): …-politische-literatur.tu-darmstadt.de/article/5472/g…

Pokorny on blistering form. jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strange-…

@SohrabAhmari If there is one thing we have learned about Trump, it is that we can trust him at his word on this

OK!

@GeoffPolHist 💯

@aaririon thanks so much of this commentariat style where every EE election is about Putin mirror of tankies saying Iranian politics must be about fighting Israel

Interesting on #bulgaria election background accepting agency of voters & avoiding Europhile obsessions newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

@DavidAstinWalsh I have high hopes for this one! upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/…

What forthcoming or recently published books are people excited about? I need reading recommendations!