Jamie Merchant

coming August 2024 to bookstores near you! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

@n_hold @mutualcreation ah, you finally got the block too i see. drumm is just a thin-skinned loser who can’t handle any pushback at all on his goofy takes. once you see that there’s no point in interacting further

@mutualcreation Drumm blocked me after while and fair enough, people can choose who they do and don't talk with. Drumm just doesn't like me, and again fair enough but I also get the sense he misunderstood my point and since others may as well I want to clarify that what I said isn't a criticism

what are ppl’s thoughts on extra-academic institutions selling humanities courses like Acid Horizon, BISR, Mimbres, MSCP and The New Centre?

@TiltingatM3 x.com/pathtopraxis/s…

is Robert Brenner

The one man doing the most to carry the torch for Veblen’s Theory of Business Enterprise—intra-K conflict matters more than K-L conflict; new low-cost entrants depress capital; overcapacity persists longer than it should bc rent-seeking businessmen refuse to merge exit or die

@BigMeanInternet hey happy bday to us, fellow 12/16'er

Someone want to send me a PDF of this? It's literally my birthday jstor.org/stable/10.5749…

@NewLeftEViews come to bluesky, it's much less horrific and stupid than here

The sleep of reason and the general air of amorality and nihilism eventually ensnares you and everyone you ever loved and respected. Consuming any but the most carefully curated media feels like self-harm these days. Just might hang out on Substack more.

📝NUEVA TRADUCCIÓN En el punto álgido de las protestas No Kings en EEUU, publicamos este texto de @pathtopraxis en el que desgrana los diferentes aspectos de la crisis de los Estados en el orden del capital que encarna la segunda administración de Trump contracultura.cc/2025/10/21/est…

@Vh4zt awesome, and yes please!

@pathtopraxis Hi, we are translating your latest article published in Field Notes into Spanish. We loved it! When we have finished the translation, we can send it to you for proofreading, if you are interested.

my latest in Field Notes on the decay & demise of the modern state as we knew it brooklynrail.org/2025/09/field-…

@policytensor Sure but why are they sanguine? Capitalists that don't invest without massive state subsidies/derisking, don't trade without bailout guarantees, can't survive w/o plugging into the defense budget (e.g., Silicon Valley), does that look like a healthy, vigorous capitalism to you?

I must say, I found much of your essay quite compelling. But I don't think you quite understand how sanguine the capitalist class is. The state/imperial managers are in panic, not bc capital is hurting—it is not hurting at all!—but bc the working class is in revolt and Washington's years of dictating terms to the rest of the world is coming to an end. It's a class panic, but not of the capitalist class.

Finally finished this long piece by @pathtopraxis. Equal parts deep and lost in theory. The latter issue is simple: what makes you think the capitalists want, or are happy with Trump’s kleptostate? Why do you think they are the ones who put him there? What was the spending ratio in the election? Is it not, in fact, the working class that made him King and gave him the mandate to burn it all down? This is what happens to Brahmins who get too enamored with theory. You may think that capitalists are responsible for our present exit from bourgeois democracy if you eat too much Marxist lettuce. But look around. Read some fucking polls. Who really put Trump in the White House? brooklynrail.org/2025/09/field-…

@policytensor well to sanction or approve of sth is different than doing or carrying it out oneself, no? anyway i’m explicitly arguing against this notion you’re attributing to me of a unified capitalist interest that could be directly imposed in the first place, so i think you’ve misread

Towards the coda, around where you cite Draper with emphasis (yours or original?): “Whenever democratic forms become inconvenient for ruling-class hegemony, making the state institutions of the status quo precarious, there is a tendency for the ruling class to sanction a shift to more authoritarian and despotic forms….”

We're joined by author @pathtopraxis for a deep dive into Trump 2 economic policy: intra-elite class war at the heart of Tariffs, the legacy of Bidenomics, and the future of U.S. trade and manufacturing. PLUS, the e-girl influencer drama tearing apart the far right Link below⬇️

My thoughts about Jamie Merchant's great book, Endgame @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspi…

In his contribution to our dossier, @pathtopraxis argues that the latest iteration of Trump's economic policy represents a window into the global restructuring of class conflict, "a renewed ruling class offensive." Read Jamie's piece below 👇

also looking forward to this!

Join us! Thursday the 29th @THSEA 7:30pm PDT for Whatever Happened to Revolution? With @outsidadgitator , @colleenlye , @nikhil_palsingh , and Idris Robinson townhallseattle.org/event/red-may-…

very much looking forward to this at this years @redmayseattle

@IliasAlami any plans to come thru Chicago?

When in the US

The global significance of the protests in Turkey: 1) The world is shifting to the far right and Erdoğan is the only far-right leader in an electorally competitive context who has had an uninterrupted 23-year rule. 2) There were several electoral victories, uprisings and coup

spectrejournal.com/nationalism-an… Hey y'all. This week we have @WilsonSJake review essay, focusing on the different views on nationalism in Wolfgang Streeck's Taking Back Control (@VersoBooks ) and @pathtopraxis 's Endgame (@reaktionbooks, @UChicagoPress ).

nothing more contingent and random in capitalist society than a bunch of capitalists smashing up the state and handing it off to their cronies for privatization