Richard Seymour
@leninology.bsky.social
Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
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"A further irony is that, of course, the whole point of Labour adopting the ‘Danish model’ is that it doesn’t want to do anything even remotely left-wing." (...) "How could it be otherwise? The core premise of welfare is universality". 🎯 @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/143802...
It's supposed to sound a bit fascist | Richard Seymour
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November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"A further irony is that, of course, the whole point of Labour adopting the ‘Danish model’ is that it doesn’t want to do anything even remotely left-wing." (...) "How could it be otherwise? The core premise of welfare is universality". 🎯 @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/143802...
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"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
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It's supposed to sound a bit fascist
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It's supposed to sound a bit fascist | Richard Seymour
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November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
It's supposed to sound a bit fascist
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@leninology.bsky.social on Labour's new, racist migration policy. "If it sounds like Nazi shit, the prudent assumption is that’s how it’s supposed to sound. Even with a certain ambiguity retained for deniability and equivocation, hitting those notes is a strategy and not a slip."
It's supposed to sound a bit fascist | Richard Seymour
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November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
@leninology.bsky.social on Labour's new, racist migration policy. "If it sounds like Nazi shit, the prudent assumption is that’s how it’s supposed to sound. Even with a certain ambiguity retained for deniability and equivocation, hitting those notes is a strategy and not a slip."
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NEW ON PATREON!
Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle.
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Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle.
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NEW PATREON POD! 'Disaster Capitalism and a 2005 Talk with Earth First! Co-founder Mike Roselle | This Is Hell!
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
NEW ON PATREON!
Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle.
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Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle.
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Richard Seymour writes about Your Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @leninology.bsky.social
Your Party is fumbling a historic opportunity
If Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana fail, the left will not forgive them
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Richard Seymour writes about Your Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @leninology.bsky.social
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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Book - #DisasterNationalism by @leninology.bsky.social
The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization
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The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization
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November 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Book - #DisasterNationalism by @leninology.bsky.social
The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization
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The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization
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I signed this, obviously.
1/ Was proud to be among 300 former NYT opinion contributors who pledge to boycott writing for the New York Times opinion section until our demands about Palestine are met www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I signed this, obviously.
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If investors all know AI is a bubble just waiting to burst, why put so much money into it? @leninology.bsky.social concludes that even the bursting will allow them more control.
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The age of plausible hallucination | Richard Seymour
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October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If investors all know AI is a bubble just waiting to burst, why put so much money into it? @leninology.bsky.social concludes that even the bursting will allow them more control.
www.patreon.com/posts/age-of-plausible-141629688?post_id=141629688
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Please join us Sunday, Nov 9, 12 pm at SOAS for this roundtable on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Please join us Sunday, Nov 9, 12 pm at SOAS for this roundtable on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at @histmat.bsky.social-London conference.
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“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust.
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
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We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators - Salvage
The automation of death has been a goal of the US military since 2004. The aim has been to progress from ‘man-in-the-loop’ technology, where a human decides what the technology does, to ‘man-on-the-lo...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust.
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
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It's time for a new patron reading group, and we've chosen 'Disaster Nationalism' by @leninology.bsky.social The gang gets started with the introduction, which means there is still time to become part of the group. If so, go to the Discord to join in.
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Regrettable Book Club- Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (Part I) | The Regrettable Century
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October 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's time for a new patron reading group, and we've chosen 'Disaster Nationalism' by @leninology.bsky.social The gang gets started with the introduction, which means there is still time to become part of the group. If so, go to the Discord to join in.
www.patreon.com/posts/140789...
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Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Daniel Trilling and Thomas Jones · Is this fascism?
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October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.
Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition
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September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.
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BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
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“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇
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Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇
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They Want Their Country Back, but It Was Never Theirs
This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just to install Nigel Farage in government but to build a mass street mo...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇
jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇
jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...
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The social industry 'rewards drama, hyperbole, losing one's temper, spontaneous rashness, asperity ... It's the opposite of a political meeting, where such behaviour is, not infrequent, but frowned on and shut down by a good chair.' (@leninology.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
You have exceeded your hope ration | Richard Seymour
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September 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The social industry 'rewards drama, hyperbole, losing one's temper, spontaneous rashness, asperity ... It's the opposite of a political meeting, where such behaviour is, not infrequent, but frowned on and shut down by a good chair.' (@leninology.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
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On days like today, I’m reminded bleakly of this by @leninology.bsky.social from 2019: Farage’s appeal stems in part from his claim that you can do the very things that liberals say are impossible www.patreon.com/posts/287922...
The confidence men | Richard Seymour
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September 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
On days like today, I’m reminded bleakly of this by @leninology.bsky.social from 2019: Farage’s appeal stems in part from his claim that you can do the very things that liberals say are impossible www.patreon.com/posts/287922...
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4/ @leninology.bsky.social in @newarab.com.web.brid.gy is probably the most thorough and incisive analysis of Saturday’s march and its context I’ve seen
www.newarab.com/opinion/brit...
www.newarab.com/opinion/brit...
Britain’s far-right march was years in the making
Britain’s largest far-right march was no fringe event—it was fuelled by years of Tory & Labour support for anti-immigration policies, argues Richard Seymour.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
4/ @leninology.bsky.social in @newarab.com.web.brid.gy is probably the most thorough and incisive analysis of Saturday’s march and its context I’ve seen
www.newarab.com/opinion/brit...
www.newarab.com/opinion/brit...
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"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social
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2/ This by @trillingual.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk from June (ostensibly a review of @leninology.bsky.social’s important book, but much more than that) is a brilliant account of the new global and UK far right.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...
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September 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
2/ This by @trillingual.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk from June (ostensibly a review of @leninology.bsky.social’s important book, but much more than that) is a brilliant account of the new global and UK far right.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Vous pouvez à présent visionner la plénière "Conjurer le fascisme" de notre conférence Historical Materialism Paris, qui s'est tenue le 26 juin dernier, avec Veronica Gago, Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) et Salvatore Prinzi 👇
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Conjurer le fascisme - HM Paris 2025
YouTube video by Historical Materialism Paris
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September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Vous pouvez à présent visionner la plénière "Conjurer le fascisme" de notre conférence Historical Materialism Paris, qui s'est tenue le 26 juin dernier, avec Veronica Gago, Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) et Salvatore Prinzi 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmz...
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‘The lack of urgency on all manner of organising questions has been excruciating, and if there doesn’t issue from this a new debate, a new coalition, a new strategy, and a new set of tactics — then we deserve what we get’.
Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social
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Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social
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I heard you want your country back | Richard Seymour
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September 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
‘The lack of urgency on all manner of organising questions has been excruciating, and if there doesn’t issue from this a new debate, a new coalition, a new strategy, and a new set of tactics — then we deserve what we get’.
Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social
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Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social
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