Barnaby Pepin

@ESRC Phd candidate @UniofExeter Guest Teacher @LSEGovernment | Political Economy of the Welfare State

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I had a fantastic time in Valencia this week. I presented on Negative Unity and SRT - a prospective synthesis between ideas found in Hegel’s Logic and the question of reductionism in Marxism-Feminism. Thank you to @emaraguat @Bertamperez, and all the organisers!

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This morning, to close the conference, we discussed the actualisation of philosophy, concrete universality, and Adorno’s critique of Hegelian totality. It's been three exciting days!

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I'm going to be speaking in Cluj this Saturday on how to re-think Conjunctural Analysis bearing in mind the critique of relative autonomy promulgated by Open Marxism and the Conference of Socialist Economists. Hope to see some friends there! 🇷🇴

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Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár Conference, 16-18 April 2026
Interregnum here & now: post-communist collapse, planetary crisis, and emancipatory resolve
Programme: https://t.co/2WGfOKz2TB

[Panagiotis Sotiris @panagsotiris]

Heide Gerstenberger delivering this year's Deutscher Memorial Prize lecture at this year's Historical Materialism London Conference @histmat

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The Edinburgh Common Sense website seems to be down with seemingly no access to any of the journals anywhere. Does anyone know anything about this?

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@MattPolProf I think Marx is a particular example in that to grasp the nuances of his critique you have to take not only his most famous works into account, but also Grundrisse, 1844 manuscripts, 18th Brumaire, etc. This is a shortfall of Marx's if anyone's...

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@elonmusk @elonmusk Someone needs to spend more time with Simon Clarke.

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@Nigel_Farage The fact you mock the idea of a 'work/life balance' says it all. You are the enemy of the working class!

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@Nigel_Farage That was the zeitgeist in France before the Left alliance took it.

The young and the progressive are going to keep the fascists out of power in 2024.

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@YTAdventurePlan @MattWalshBlog @JoeBiden Inflation is a bi-product of economic growth. Countries usually aim for around 3% stable. 1% is usually an indicator that you have over supply.

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@MattWalshBlog @JoeBiden Lower unemployment, higher wages, regenerated manufacturing sector, low and stable inflation, higher economic growth... any other 'disastrous' impacts I missed?

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@_Dan_Austin Whilst the election is unbelievably good news, and having the RN anywhere near political authority would be totally devastating, personifying working class people as the enemies of progressivism is a failure of the Left, and part of the reason the far right is rising.

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@implausibleblog We live in a paradigm of fiscal austerity, started by Thatcher, that continues to this day. The fact that 'tax' is so universally considered a dirty word just shows how entrenching neoliberalism can be, and how impossible social democracy is without a movement of the centre.

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@campbellclaret Wasn’t Rupert Murdoch New Labour’s biggest ally?

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@RestIsPolitics Not very many suprises. Particularly that there was no discussion of Brexit and the Gaza war was treated almost technocratically with no emotion, urgency or zeal.

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Thank you, London. It's the honour of my life to serve the city I love. 🙏🏿

Today is not about making history, it’s about shaping our future.

And I'll work relentlessly to shape a fairer, safer, greener city for every Londoner.

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https://t.co/kg8XBbPOOO

Another profound and simply eye-opening piece by @Andreas_Bieler and @AdamDavidMorton. They sublate the very best and worst of intersectionality. A must-read and a much needed reminder of the imperative of dialectical thinking.

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@CrowtherSim they're not.

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@MattPolProf I like to think of welfare states as the Katechon of capitalism... Holding it back from disaster and crisis... re-mediating it... upholding it. And there's certainly nothing 'Marxist' about the upholding of capitalism.

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@lea_ypi @DarwinCollege @spectator what the hell