Bruno Leipold

It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Talked to @michaellazarus.bsky.social about his brilliant new book "Absolute Ethical Life" @stanfordpress.bsky.social for the Emancipations journal: On Marx's Aristotelianism, the "bad life" of capitalism, and the missing "ethics" of value-form theory scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

I’m very grateful to @lsepoltheory.bsky.social and the alternatives to capitalism project for organising this workshop on my book, which I enjoyed immensely. Many thanks to @brunoleipold.com for organising, and to the brilliant Anne Phillips and Kate Vredenburgh for excellent comments.

💥 Four POPGOV Principal Investigators in Girona exploring the possibilities of popular government. With @brunoleipold.com @uditbhatia.bsky.social and Pierre-Etienne Vandamme.

Now available in #paperback, @brunoleipold.com's Citizen Marx is the first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought. Learn more: buff.ly/mG8W61u #PoliSci

Paperback of Citizen Marx published today. Now available for the (slightly) more reasonable price of $29.95/£25.00 (+30% off with code PUP30) 🙂

Had loads of fun (as every year) at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law”

Will be talking at HM on 6 November about how socialists, from Marx to today, have thought about the appropriate “political terrain” for socialism

babe wake up, new HM plenaries just dropped

The Bristol Political Philosophers have a manuscript workshop! If you're a UK-based political philosopher, come and talk to us about your book in Bristol next year. The very easy form to fill in is below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Amelia Horgan on Steinem’s complex liberal and radical feminism tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/agen...

My article on Constituency Juries now out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Renate Reinsve as Wollstonecraft is inspired deadline.com/2026/09/hans...

It’s a genuine neck and neck race between Germany and the U.K. now

As always, Sophie Lewis has the most insightful take, this time on Sophie Lewis: www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

lol, these pieces are a day apart

The ideal 2026 APSA look

We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...

Just got a copy of my book in paperback. Available from 6 October! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📢 New preprint! 📖 Tl;dr - Too much talk of disobedience in the literature, hardly any of direct action. We define it, explain how it works, and show what difference it makes to how we understand social movements. Coming soon to an AJPS near you: philpapers.org/rec/RAETLO-4

Imagine a normal person, just, like, in your head right now - imagine a normal person, hanging out, being normal. Now, boom, ask yourself - are they Italian? They weren't, were they. Because you don't think Italian people are normal. Racist.

I hate reality, because I don't care about international criminal law, I don't want to care about international criminal law, but also I need to make something of the fact that ICC judges are under sanctions and ICJ judges are not, and this presses hard against my worldview, and I have that.

Really pleased that my department is doing an open rank political theory search. Happy to answer questions by DM or email as best I can! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

The Guardian bears some responsibility for whats happened. This for instance was published after he’d already resigned and there was just no need for it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

Unsere neuen Michel-Foucault-Badeschlappen (shrk.vg/Badeschlappe...) haben es in die FAZ geschafft!

on Watches and the Division of Labor in Marx and Adam Smith with a lot of Petty and Paley. digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-watches...

🗣️ JOB! Full-time, permanent Lecturer in Ethics and/or Politics at KCL (Dept of Philosophy) 📅 Deadline - 14 November 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX045/l...

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

There's a lot of bad stuff on the internet and social media, but there is also a lot of good, enriching stuff that kids can benefit from Have a read of this and see how great the online world can be: www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Our final ERC postdocs have now been advertised. These are with my co-PI @welpita.bsky.social at the University of Girona focusing on the empirical study of popular government

Appreciated this very thoughtful review from Amy Allen, including a critique that I now think is justified onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

In „Citizen Marx“ präsentiert @brunoleipold.com Karl Marx als kritischen Befürworter demokratischer Politik. Rezensent Timm Graßmann überzeugt die republikanische Lesart, vermisst jedoch eine Auseinandersetzung mit Marx’ entschiedenem Antiimperialismus: www.soziopolis.de/marx-als-bue...

'In "Citizen Marx," @brunoleipold.com presents Karl Marx as a critical supporter of democratic politics. Reviewer Timm Graßmann finds the republican interpretation convincing, but feels it lacks an engagement with Marx's staunch anti-imperialism:'

the world is stranger than you imagine the world is stranger than you *can* imagine www.ft.com/content/3b04...

Join us tonight for Chiara Cordelli's Brian Barry Lecture were she'll be arguing against the view defended by us radical republicans that capitalist is all about domination!

Many thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

What if capitalism’s deepest ill is not exploitation or domination, but #alienation? Chiara Cordelli explores capitalism as a "rule of none" at this year's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture. 📆 Wed 20 May | 6.30-8pm 📍 The Old Theatre, #LSE Tickets here👇🏾 www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

"Labour politicians are not terminally stupid. It should be puzzling, therefore, that so many of them were happy to accede to the government’s ‘hippie-punching’ strategy, in which socially liberal, left-wing voters – the core of their support – have been repeatedly castigated and rejected."

JK Rowling now being represented by a non-binary South Asian MSP named ‘Q’ is like something out of a movie. I can’t stop cackling about it.

"The current public discourse about antisemitism is defined by two claims. First, that Jews are victims of Muslims and the pro-Palestine left, and, second, that the proper response to racism is more aggressive policing." Typically sharp analysis from Barnaby Raine in @equatormag.bsky.social:

A double Marx day celebration (yesterday)! Highly recommend reading Jan's book that I was lucky enough to read in draft

Today learnt that the supposed Oscar Wilde quote about socialism taking too many evenings was just made up by Michael Walzer in 1968 quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/03/e...

The switch to in-person exams as a response to LLMs is apparently now being met with the countermove of using smart glasses to cheat on the exams. I'm eligible for early retirement in four days, and not a moment too soon.

Feels historically incongrous that Robert Michels has an APSR publication