Gramscian Architectonics
@brantblogs.bsky.social
Living in self-imposed exile. Working on a book on Gramscian historiography and Mexican history. Published in: Africa is a Country; Marx & Philosophy Review of Books; Monthly Review; and Orinoco Tribune. https://gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/
Listened to Chapo Trap House while starting work today and they had on a guy who insisted on the strategy of confronting your representatives - as if they give a shit... I hate to be the one to say it, but they don't care. Calling, emailing, talking to them in person, none of it works.
April 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Listened to Chapo Trap House while starting work today and they had on a guy who insisted on the strategy of confronting your representatives - as if they give a shit... I hate to be the one to say it, but they don't care. Calling, emailing, talking to them in person, none of it works.
My review of Massimiliano Tomba's "Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/1712...
‘Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity’ by Massimiliano Tomba reviewed by Brant Roberts
When we look for new ideas and new forms of analysis, we often reach to the past for inspiration and…
marxandphilosophy.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My review of Massimiliano Tomba's "Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/1712...
I would have rather seen Marine Le Pen defeated at the ballot box than in a courtroom
March 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I would have rather seen Marine Le Pen defeated at the ballot box than in a courtroom
Of Opiates and Stimulants: The Thirteenth Week in Review (2025) gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2025/03/31/o...
Of Opiates and Stimulants: The Thirteenth Week in Review (2025)
William Clark, Slaves Fell the Ripe Sugar, 1823. “Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly. Coffee is the sound of taste, a so…
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March 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Of Opiates and Stimulants: The Thirteenth Week in Review (2025) gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2025/03/31/o...
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2143... My review of "Gramsci Contested: Interpretations, Debates and Polemics, 1922-2012"
‘Gramsci Contested: Interpretations, Debates and Polemics, 1922-2012’ by Guido Liguori reviewed by Brant Roberts
To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, to write the historiography of an individual means nothing less than to write the general history of their party and nation from a monographic viewpoint. Guido Liguori’s...
marxandphilosophy.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2143... My review of "Gramsci Contested: Interpretations, Debates and Polemics, 1922-2012"
The real question is why does Europe feel threatened by Russia? Yes, there was the invasion of Ukraine but no other countries have been directly threatened. Russia has been clear since 2014 that they want their border-states to remain neutral between NATO and Russia. Why potentially provoke war?
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The real question is why does Europe feel threatened by Russia? Yes, there was the invasion of Ukraine but no other countries have been directly threatened. Russia has been clear since 2014 that they want their border-states to remain neutral between NATO and Russia. Why potentially provoke war?
mronline.org/2024/05/23/i... My review of “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century”
Ianir Milevski (ed) “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century” | MR Online
Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed...
mronline.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
mronline.org/2024/05/23/i... My review of “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century”
Its really telling that the Dems are far more up-in-arms over the groupchat incident than the plane crashes, the Palestinian political prisoners being held by ICE, the cuts to key government agencies, and the potential rollback of social security.
March 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Its really telling that the Dems are far more up-in-arms over the groupchat incident than the plane crashes, the Palestinian political prisoners being held by ICE, the cuts to key government agencies, and the potential rollback of social security.
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2156... My review of Adolfo Gilly's "Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays"
‘Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays’ by Adolfo Gilly reviewed by Brant Roberts
The Trotskyist thinker Adolfo Gilly had many roles in his life, from prisoner and professor to historian and popular intellectual. Having passed away last year, Gilly, like fellow Argentine-Mexican En...
marxandphilosophy.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2156... My review of Adolfo Gilly's "Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays"
Pro-worker candidates are nice, but without any link to organization and mass movements it will probably mean nothing in the end.
Bernie Sanders says more pro-worker candidates should run for office as independents rather than as Democrats.
He’s right.
He’s right.
We Need More Independent, Working-Class Political Candidates
Bernie Sanders says more pro-worker candidates should run for office as independents rather than as Democrats. He’s right.
jacobin.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Pro-worker candidates are nice, but without any link to organization and mass movements it will probably mean nothing in the end.
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2151... My review of "Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century"
‘Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century’ by Ianir Milevski (ed) reviewed by Brant Roberts
Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed...
marxandphilosophy.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2151... My review of "Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century"
jacobin.com/2025/03/abun... Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s "Abundance" really is just another ridiculous rendition of FALC, but with a different C.
What the “Abundance Agenda” Leaves Out
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has plenty of merits, writes Matt Bruenig, but its emphasis on growth and innovation must be married to other egalitarian concerns.
jacobin.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
jacobin.com/2025/03/abun... Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s "Abundance" really is just another ridiculous rendition of FALC, but with a different C.
What year is this? Two politicians who have been bootlicking the Democratic Party, supporting both of the unpopular Biden and Harris campaigns - while each aided and abetted genocide, and have been ultimately useless "can become something bigger"? We all deserve so much better than this.
The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk: jacobin.com/2025/03/bern...
March 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What year is this? Two politicians who have been bootlicking the Democratic Party, supporting both of the unpopular Biden and Harris campaigns - while each aided and abetted genocide, and have been ultimately useless "can become something bigger"? We all deserve so much better than this.
It was already a hellhole, we didn't need to hear it from him
Trump’s tireless trash-talking of the country should be understood as priming the public:
He keeps telling his base that America is a hellhole because he understands instinctively that the more hellish people think it is, the more likely they are to give him license to do as he pleases.
He keeps telling his base that America is a hellhole because he understands instinctively that the more hellish people think it is, the more likely they are to give him license to do as he pleases.
Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies”
Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.
newrepublic.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It was already a hellhole, we didn't need to hear it from him
gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2025/03/24/t... The Necessity of Delinking in the Time of US Economic Rupture: The Twelfth Week in Review (2025)
The Necessity of Delinking in the Time of US Economic Rupture: The Twelfth Week in Review (2025)
“For us the basis of national liberation, whatever the formulas developed in international law, lies in the inalienable right of every people to have its own history, and the goal of national…
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March 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2025/03/24/t... The Necessity of Delinking in the Time of US Economic Rupture: The Twelfth Week in Review (2025)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... More proof that the US will go down in history as the world's largest and most repressive prison system in history.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... More proof that the US will go down in history as the world's largest and most repressive prison system in history.
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www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025... Crazy day yesterday...
Asfixian 20 manifestaciones a la CDMX
Trastornan el tránsito marchas y bloqueos. Cinco vialidades, las más afectadas.
www.jornada.com.mx
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025... Crazy day yesterday...
monthlyreview.org/press/rise-r... “Rise, recognize your strength” (The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh reviewed in ‘Orinoco Tribune’)
Monthly Review | “Rise, recognize your strength” (The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh reviewed in ‘Orinoco Tribune’)
Singh’s brilliance belies his young age and his essay “To Young Political Workers” shows a political maturity that any older revolutionary would have been proud to have written.
monthlyreview.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
monthlyreview.org/press/rise-r... “Rise, recognize your strength” (The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh reviewed in ‘Orinoco Tribune’)
orinocotribune.com/book-review-... Book Review: ‘The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean’ by Nick Nesbitt
Book Review: ‘The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean’ by Nick Nesbitt
By Brant Roberts - Oct 26, 2024Over the past fifteen years a new tradition of critical Antillean theory has been flowing in the veins of new analyses of the Haitian Revolution and its relation to poli...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
orinocotribune.com/book-review-... Book Review: ‘The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean’ by Nick Nesbitt
Yet liberals don't behave like it in the way they always imagined. Then again, liberals never did much to resist fascism historically anyways.
"We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship": Elie Mystal on Trump's Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary
“We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday criticizing attacks by President Trump and his allies on federal judges. “For more than two centuries, it has been established...
www.democracynow.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yet liberals don't behave like it in the way they always imagined. Then again, liberals never did much to resist fascism historically anyways.
www.theguardian.com/world/video/... Despite the fact that China is surely the strongest economy in the world right now, I really can't blame these folks for leaving for a better life. Might as well escape for a peaceful situation if its possible. I did the same in Mexico and it was well worth it.
The 'new China' in Thailand: ‘if you want hope, you have to leave’ – video
After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism, a new trend has emerged in China. The search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. The trend is so popula...
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/video/... Despite the fact that China is surely the strongest economy in the world right now, I really can't blame these folks for leaving for a better life. Might as well escape for a peaceful situation if its possible. I did the same in Mexico and it was well worth it.
misionverdad.com/globalistan/... "Desde la perspectiva de gran parte de la humanidad que desea el fin de la hegemonía estadounidense, seguramente Trump no es lo que queremos, pero tal vez es lo que necesitamos."
El Trump que necesitamos
Aunque el nuevo gobierno de Donald Trump no ha alcanzado todavía los 40 días de labor, debido a la cascada de eventos y decisiones generadas desde la Casa Blanca este periodo ha parecido de meses o añ...
misionverdad.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
misionverdad.com/globalistan/... "Desde la perspectiva de gran parte de la humanidad que desea el fin de la hegemonía estadounidense, seguramente Trump no es lo que queremos, pero tal vez es lo que necesitamos."
"Putin-style" maybe the US was always just a low-intensity police state (especially after 9/11) and describing an arrest as "Putin-style" doesn't actually capture the moment. After all, not everything bad is Russian...
‘This is not immigration enforcement intended to keep our country safe,’ said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston. ‘This is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents’
>>And Colorado Comments
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#JeanetteVizguerra #MassDeportations #COpolitics
>>And Colorado Comments
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#JeanetteVizguerra #MassDeportations #COpolitics
ICE arrest of immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra draws sharp rebukes from Colorado officials, activists - Sentinel Colorado
'This is not immigration enforcement intended to keep our country safe,' said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston. 'This is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents'
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March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Putin-style" maybe the US was always just a low-intensity police state (especially after 9/11) and describing an arrest as "Putin-style" doesn't actually capture the moment. After all, not everything bad is Russian...
gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2024/04/16/r... My review of Kristen Ghodsee’s “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism”
Review of Kristen Ghodsee’s “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism”
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition in Dense, Polychrome, Quadrangular Spots (1921) “If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.” –…
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March 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
gramscianarchitectonics.com.mx/2024/04/16/r... My review of Kristen Ghodsee’s “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism”