Zachary Levenson
@grundrza.bsky.social
Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
Just signed a contract for my next book, written with Josh Seim and coming out in 2027 on @ucpress.bsky.social: 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵
August 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just signed a contract for my next book, written with Josh Seim and coming out in 2027 on @ucpress.bsky.social: 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵
I wrote this op/ed on Israel’s attempt to murder Palestinian national culture for the Telegraph
July 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I wrote this op/ed on Israel’s attempt to murder Palestinian national culture for the Telegraph
Well, now that I'm officially tenured, I suppose it's finally okay for me to openly edit a Marxist journal and speak my mind on Palestine?
June 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Well, now that I'm officially tenured, I suppose it's finally okay for me to openly edit a Marxist journal and speak my mind on Palestine?
I interviewed @samklug.bsky.social about his new book The Internal Colony for @journalspectre.bsky.social — just published:
June 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I interviewed @samklug.bsky.social about his new book The Internal Colony for @journalspectre.bsky.social — just published:
April 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
.@criticalsoc.bsky.social just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me.
Free PDF version in the thread.
Free PDF version in the thread.
April 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
.@criticalsoc.bsky.social just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me.
Free PDF version in the thread.
Free PDF version in the thread.
...to ensure that ideologically driven sectarianism does not undermine the potential of radical groups to work in tandem; and to develop strategies that address the specific linkages between racism and capitalism in their particular context.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
...to ensure that ideologically driven sectarianism does not undermine the potential of radical groups to work in tandem; and to develop strategies that address the specific linkages between racism and capitalism in their particular context.
Movements are not only 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 of struggle, but equally 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 of struggle upon which consequential political battles unfold. The story of South Africa’s radicals pushes activists to incorporate radical critiques rather than settle for broad-tent reformism; ...
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Movements are not only 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 of struggle, but equally 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 of struggle upon which consequential political battles unfold. The story of South Africa’s radicals pushes activists to incorporate radical critiques rather than settle for broad-tent reformism; ...
South Africa’s status as the most unequal country on the planet is therefore not a paradox, given the ascension of a liberation movement to power. The ANC’s reluctance to challenge capital helps to explain the lack of substantial redistribution in the democratic period.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
South Africa’s status as the most unequal country on the planet is therefore not a paradox, given the ascension of a liberation movement to power. The ANC’s reluctance to challenge capital helps to explain the lack of substantial redistribution in the democratic period.
More broadly, the movement’s radical wing linked anti-racist struggle to socialist transformation, insisting that the elimination of apartheid without the abolition of capitalism was both conceptually and practicably impossible.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
More broadly, the movement’s radical wing linked anti-racist struggle to socialist transformation, insisting that the elimination of apartheid without the abolition of capitalism was both conceptually and practicably impossible.
The paper explores how these groups challenged both the apartheid regime and mainstream liberation movements. This included non-collaborationists, who refused to work in Congress structures, and entryists, who moved in both popular formations and the labor movement.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The paper explores how these groups challenged both the apartheid regime and mainstream liberation movements. This included non-collaborationists, who refused to work in Congress structures, and entryists, who moved in both popular formations and the labor movement.
The prevailing narrative of the anti-apartheid movement tends to highlight the African National Congress and its allies. But a number of radical groups, disillusioned with the ANC's reformist politics, sought to tie anti-racist struggle to the struggle against capitalism.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The prevailing narrative of the anti-apartheid movement tends to highlight the African National Congress and its allies. But a number of radical groups, disillusioned with the ANC's reformist politics, sought to tie anti-racist struggle to the struggle against capitalism.
Coming soon from me and Marcel in a special issue of @criticalsoc.bsky.social on passive rev I'm co-editing w/ Simeon Newman
March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Coming soon from me and Marcel in a special issue of @criticalsoc.bsky.social on passive rev I'm co-editing w/ Simeon Newman
Coming soon in Souls 👀
January 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Coming soon in Souls 👀
Second NYT piece in two months on the state meddling with our curriculum here at FIU.
Special shout to @marthaschoolman.bsky.social for a great response!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Special shout to @marthaschoolman.bsky.social for a great response!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Second NYT piece in two months on the state meddling with our curriculum here at FIU.
Special shout to @marthaschoolman.bsky.social for a great response!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Special shout to @marthaschoolman.bsky.social for a great response!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Love working at a public university in Florida
January 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Love working at a public university in Florida
Coming soon in @sfjournal.bsky.social 👀
January 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Coming soon in @sfjournal.bsky.social 👀
December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Pretty sure that’s who got us into this mess
November 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Pretty sure that’s who got us into this mess
It’s been wild to behold just about every major Zionist getting red pilled over the last year. It’s almost as if hardline ethnonationalism with an obsessive focus on the border is indistinguishable from Trumpism.
November 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM
It’s been wild to behold just about every major Zionist getting red pilled over the last year. It’s almost as if hardline ethnonationalism with an obsessive focus on the border is indistinguishable from Trumpism.
Florida’s Chancellor of the Board of Governors on the law that forces us to add “Western canon” to our course descriptions:
November 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Florida’s Chancellor of the Board of Governors on the law that forces us to add “Western canon” to our course descriptions: