Sam Menefee-Libey

Wayward grad student. Dogs. Decolonize historical materialism, abolish police/prisons/courts, local mvmts, pop ed, Am Studies, LA. now mostly @sml47.bsky.social

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

The point of a course of study is not just to familiarize oneself with a set of facts, but to cultivate a way of thinking, a habit of mind, a set of concerns and ways of seeing the world that demand attention to certain phenomena and concepts and aspects of experience

[world commune @sean_obee]

Our Intro, "Reading Marx," available here: https://t.co/Vz8jpJECXT

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@hoosteen This is not a great documentary, but it’s going to serve as a hell of a counterweight to whatever the fuck this is https://t.co/oOy0YsDZua

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@browndogstales @Gibboanxious https://t.co/LM6r9ULnJ8

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Bolivia and the Philippines in Revolt. The US is the new conflict-ridden Bourbon Spanish Empire, spanning oceans, trying to hold it all together.

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@chrisokane_nyc Hopefully with less cocaine?

[alex @steven_lebron]

visiting the shaolin monks then losing the wu tang game in historical fashion is crazy storytelling

[Edilson J. Silva 🇨🇦🏀🇦🇴 @edilsonbuzz]

Wu-Tang Clan sparking up the Knicks crowd.

[Kris Hermes @kris_hermes]

Check out the latest episode from the podcast Outlaw on using media and collective defense to challenge the criminal legal system. Most cases brought by the state in order to crush political movements are fought outside the courtroom. We can fight back!

https://t.co/2ok5xs6FQ5

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@matthiasellis If you’re interested in thinking more about the issues raised here, I’d recommend these three texts as next steps:

Class Consciousness or Class Composition? by Salar Mohandesi https://t.co/Mb1ZueNdjf

https://t.co/DvVAWcapq6

https://t.co/gRKywoQf46

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

Fuera ICE! Fuera FIFA!
Football belongs to the people!

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@n_hold Major name in 90s/00s Anthropology, one of the co-editors of the incredible “Culture, Power, History” series from Princeton University Press, and also has a terrible tenure as chancellor of UC Berkeley from 2013-2017 where he called the cops on students and generally sucked

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@chrisokane_nyc ☹️

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

I mean to say this on here but forgot - I think this chapter by Jacob Blumenfeld is fantastic, I just happened to read it too late in the process to incorporate it into my article. imo everyone should read the chapter: https://t.co/hZXghY8kij

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@matthiasellis His stuff gets less interesting to me following that book. Like, he went off in some weird directions. I wish he’d had a community of historical materialists around him to keep him focused!

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@n_hold I’m a little younger than you and I envy how /social/ that all sounds! So much of my early music experience was swapping tapes with a few friends, often recorded off of the radio, that we listened to on our walkmen. I went to see Less Than Jake at a record store when I was 10 :)

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@n_hold That’s amazing. Was it significant in the development of your musical tastes?

[A. J. A. Woods @adubwoods]

i really appreciated the opportunity to discuss my book with Quinn Slobodian, Jaleh Mansoor, Samir Gandesha, and Philip Wolhstetter at @redmayseattle !

https://t.co/CyExHKfawD

[Sam Menefee-Libey @sml4747]

@sorenmau @grundrza Relevant links here https://t.co/7McQRJnGoV