Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social
Political Economist | Dravidian Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
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Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction.
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Just got the new issue of BreakDown. I’ve got an essay in it on the strategic vulnerabilities and liabilities of fossil capital.
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just got the new issue of BreakDown. I’ve got an essay in it on the strategic vulnerabilities and liabilities of fossil capital.
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction.
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction.
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
To mark David Harvey’s 90th, Verso is releasing a collection of reflections on his remarkable body of work. They invited me to write about The Condition of Postmodernity, a book that reshaped how we think about capitalism and culture.
Harvey and Postmodernity
When The Condition of Postmodernity appeared in 1989, the intellectual climate was saturated with discussions of postmodernism. Across philosophy, architecture, literature and cultural theory, postmod...
www.versobooks.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
To mark David Harvey’s 90th, Verso is releasing a collection of reflections on his remarkable body of work. They invited me to write about The Condition of Postmodernity, a book that reshaped how we think about capitalism and culture.
I’m presenting some new work on factory machinery, gender, and social reproduction, how the rhythms of the machine rewire the rhythms of life.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m presenting some new work on factory machinery, gender, and social reproduction, how the rhythms of the machine rewire the rhythms of life.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
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My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
Petrol For the People
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
www.break-down.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
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"The more disruption occurs, the more financial models adapt to expect it. This means that every disruption is effective, whether or not it stops a project outright. Even when it looks like we’re losing, we’re shifting the risk landscape"
I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters.
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"The more disruption occurs, the more financial models adapt to expect it. This means that every disruption is effective, whether or not it stops a project outright. Even when it looks like we’re losing, we’re shifting the risk landscape"
My dad on South Indian TV, tore into the criminal Zionist state, shredding the US empire’s lies, and hailing Iran and Yemen as the last ones with a spine for Palestine.
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My dad on South Indian TV, tore into the criminal Zionist state, shredding the US empire’s lies, and hailing Iran and Yemen as the last ones with a spine for Palestine.
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
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Great talk, great moves, 10/10, Danish marxism recommend @brosef-stalin.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great talk, great moves, 10/10, Danish marxism recommend @brosef-stalin.bsky.social
Had an incredible time in Aarhus. Huge thanks to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies (@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social) organizing committee for the kind invitation
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Had an incredible time in Aarhus. Huge thanks to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies (@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social) organizing committee for the kind invitation
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Our second keynote is underway!
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social is speaking on changing trends of factory capital, fossil capital, war capital, and maritime capital - and possibilities for disruption 👊💥
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social is speaking on changing trends of factory capital, fossil capital, war capital, and maritime capital - and possibilities for disruption 👊💥
October 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Our second keynote is underway!
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social is speaking on changing trends of factory capital, fossil capital, war capital, and maritime capital - and possibilities for disruption 👊💥
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social is speaking on changing trends of factory capital, fossil capital, war capital, and maritime capital - and possibilities for disruption 👊💥
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My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!
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A wonderful and wild ride of a keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social at this year’s conference by @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social, it’s 10th anniversary!
October 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A wonderful and wild ride of a keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social at this year’s conference by @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social, it’s 10th anniversary!
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@brosef-stalin.bsky.social implicating Denmark at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social . Great talk.
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social implicating Denmark at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social . Great talk.
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A superb essay by Ashok Kumar from the latest issue of the BREAK–DOWN – a brilliant tour of the political economic terrain of fossil capital, from which springs essential strategic advice for activists. A must read!
October 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A superb essay by Ashok Kumar from the latest issue of the BREAK–DOWN – a brilliant tour of the political economic terrain of fossil capital, from which springs essential strategic advice for activists. A must read!
I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters.
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters.
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
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“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
Merging to Survive
As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.
www.break-down.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
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Brilliant.
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Brilliant.
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People broke out of their concentration camp.
It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷♀️
I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.
It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷♀️
I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
People broke out of their concentration camp.
It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷♀️
I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.
It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷♀️
I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along!
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
September 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along!
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:
Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then”
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then”
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough
Pre-orders are now up for the newest issue of The Break-Down. I have an essay in there on fossil fuel infrastructure and disruption www.break-down.org
The BREAK—DOWN
New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate.
www.break-down.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pre-orders are now up for the newest issue of The Break-Down. I have an essay in there on fossil fuel infrastructure and disruption www.break-down.org