Magnus Møller Ziegler
@magnusz.bsky.social
Communist etc. Intellectual history, philosophy, Young Hegelianism, Marx, Vormärz studies. Academic mercenary ⟶ magnusz.dk
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Now that folks seem to be emigrating for real to this LinkedIn version of Twitter, like a proper chronic online academic I want to do a ✨Thread🧵✨ about my work, so here is an example of a certified Hot Take on Marx based on my research:
Marx never had have a 'theory' of alienation 🥵
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Marx never had have a 'theory' of alienation 🥵
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This song is completely fucking bonkers www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzHX...
Run For Your Life (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This song is completely fucking bonkers www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzHX...
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what could possibly go wrong?
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
what could possibly go wrong?
Wait shit I’m a cultist???????
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wait shit I’m a cultist???????
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New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
Can anyone send me this PDF? Thanks! newleftreview.org/issues/i142/...
Chris Arthur, Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic and a Myth of Marxology, NLR I/142, November–December 1983
There is a widely held view that Marx was profoundly influenced by the Master–Servant (‘Herrschaft und Knechtschaft’) dialectic in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This view was first popularized by J...
newleftreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Can anyone send me this PDF? Thanks! newleftreview.org/issues/i142/...
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✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
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November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
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Weird Brown's introduction to the new Capital translation has drawn so much animosity + been negatively compared to Mandel's when her interpretation of capital is basically the same.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Weird Brown's introduction to the new Capital translation has drawn so much animosity + been negatively compared to Mandel's when her interpretation of capital is basically the same.
Deleted IG yesterday for screen time reasons but now I’m missing my daily fix of Mamdani hopecore videos :(
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Deleted IG yesterday for screen time reasons but now I’m missing my daily fix of Mamdani hopecore videos :(
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The first American edition of the Moore/Aveling translation of Capital is for sale for only $15k best thing is the prominent pull quote on the webpage
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The first American edition of the Moore/Aveling translation of Capital is for sale for only $15k best thing is the prominent pull quote on the webpage
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Ok this (arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...) is an amazing example of the kind of BS hype tech writing we see so much, because even I, a lowly historian, can see the Obvious Problems with 'space data centers' that the article by a journalist at a technical publication failed to ask.
Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”
“We could see another transformation of what’s done in space.”…
arstechnica.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ok this (arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...) is an amazing example of the kind of BS hype tech writing we see so much, because even I, a lowly historian, can see the Obvious Problems with 'space data centers' that the article by a journalist at a technical publication failed to ask.
it's such unhinged fanboy behaviour that both Fichte and Hegel named their sons Immanuel
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
it's such unhinged fanboy behaviour that both Fichte and Hegel named their sons Immanuel
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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Trying to register for @histmat.bsky.social 22nd Conference and it looks we've manage to abolish "Danish Marxism" completely... Hooray🎉💔🥲
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Trying to register for @histmat.bsky.social 22nd Conference and it looks we've manage to abolish "Danish Marxism" completely... Hooray🎉💔🥲
Rare w for Danish politicians cphpost.dk/2025-10-24/n...
Agreement bans TV commercials for gambling during sports events - The Copenhagen Post
A broad majority in the Danish Parliament has reached a new agreement to address gambling addiction and protect young people from exposure to betting. The deal introduces a “whistle-to-whistle” ban on...
cphpost.dk
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Rare w for Danish politicians cphpost.dk/2025-10-24/n...
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The freshest research is hitting the oldest university next week!
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The freshest research is hitting the oldest university next week!
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🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Still interested in this...
Who has written analytically about the concept of 'Marxolgy'? Has someone tried to define what Marxology is? What is its aims and practices? Its methods?
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Still interested in this...
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Periodic reminder I would be delighted to teach a class on Marx or critical theory broadly construed online or in person in the New York city area.
October 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Periodic reminder I would be delighted to teach a class on Marx or critical theory broadly construed online or in person in the New York city area.
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Really recommend reading the essays in here, including the very helpful reflections on how the organisers actively went about ensuring gender parity (no mean feat for a Marxism conference).
PDF available here:
marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
PDF available here:
marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Really recommend reading the essays in here, including the very helpful reflections on how the organisers actively went about ensuring gender parity (no mean feat for a Marxism conference).
PDF available here:
marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
PDF available here:
marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
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THANK YOU 💕💕
Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶
Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!
Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶
Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
THANK YOU 💕💕
Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶
Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!
Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶
Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!
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Leninism vs Lieninism
October 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Leninism vs Lieninism
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Hygge Marxism takes material form ❤️✊
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hygge Marxism takes material form ❤️✊