Critical Social, Political, & Economic Theory
The theorists & activists here all do work that denaturalizes relations of power and points the way to alternatives that promote human and ecological flourishing. Themes: capitalism, democracy, environment, social difference, solidarity, emancipation.
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@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
@eidlin.bsky.social
Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
@ntaylor.bsky.social
Lecturer at Queen Mary Uni of London | History of welfare, unemployment; history of economics; finance & climate change 🚲🌳
@chukker.bsky.social
Sociologist. Socialist. UCU Branch Rep. Decent at bike polo. Local croquet champ www.mattvidal.com
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social
Political Economist | Dravidian Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
@danielbin.org
Associate professor at unb.br | Author https://t.ly/zE5R1 & https://t.ly/uomQ-
@rohanadvani.bsky.social
Studying the political economy of the GCC and Singapore. PhD sociology at UCLA. Fellow @centuryintl #coys
@cerasellachis.bsky.social
doing some stuff, sometimes | she/comrade (Marxism & Disability Network | BSA Theory Study Group | Society for Disability Studies | Politics of Disablement & Precarious Work project | precarious teacher, UoBirmingham - what next? no idea)
@cihantugal.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley Working on a book on right-wing populism https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
@roberthockett.bsky.social
Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital, New Consensus. Formerly Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Monetary Fund. Law, Philosophy & Finance Devotee. Cf. my Forbes & SSRN Pages as well as my 'Capital Futures' Website.
@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
@cedricdurand.bsky.social
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Rock over London, rock on Chicago WRITING check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame MUSIC youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi bandcamp page (all originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
@pashukanist.bsky.social
https://liverpool.academia.edu/RobertKnox (He/him) No one took 'Pashukanis' , but the 'T' is my brand. SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor @ @histmat.bsky.social, London Review of International Law and https://legalform.blog. Opinions mine. Marxist
@matthikaru.bsky.social
Prime Professor of Sociology at Prime University (formerly CU Boulder). Franklin School Marxism (not really).
@lslothuus.bsky.social
Climate, energy, political theory, social movements | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com
@materialistjew.bsky.social
Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR. my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
@kevanharris.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists
@williammparis.bsky.social
Critical theorist and philosopher of utopia. Author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. Co-host of What’s Left of Philosophy.
@jeromeroos.bsky.social
Political economist at LSE. Author of 'Why Not Default?'. Writing a history of global crises for Knopf and Vintage. Newsletter: therift.blog.
@mathewlawrence.bsky.social
Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social https://www.common-wealth.org/ Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/lawrence-mathew
@julietschor.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
@fakerobhunter.bsky.social
Watching, always. Writing, often. Letterboxd: @FakeRobHunter Email: rob.hunter.movies@gmail.com Authory: https://authory.com/RobHunter?collection=Movies-cf02b3c51030a4e5da587000f56d3ca66
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Political Economist at Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University | Sustainable Finance | Financialization | Politics of Investment | Pensions | http://nataschavanderzwan.com
@kaikodden.bsky.social
Political economist and attempts at internationalism l Prof @Bard College Berlin. Between Cologne and Berlin.
@maxkrahe.bsky.social
Co-founder & director Dezernat Zukunft. Democracy/capitalism, 1970s, now finding my way into geoeconomics. Previously postdoc at The New Institute (Hamburg), PhD (Political Science) Yale. Website: www.maxkrahe.com
@mikejbeggs.bsky.social
Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
@routhier.bsky.social
Starter pack marxist https://www.versobooks.com/products/2954-with-and-against
@selfactingmule.bsky.social
member, https://legalform.blog/ editorial collective rhunter.org
@morton.bsky.social
Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
@blmckean.bsky.social
associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
@monicaclua.bsky.social
Professor Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Editor-in-chief Global Political Economy journal @gpejournal.bsky.social Opinions my own
@mkonings.bsky.social
Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
@keeanga.bsky.social
historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire https://www.keeangataylor.com/
@mflohr.bsky.social
I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and lecturer at Roskilde Uni. He/him. Tweets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸Research profile: https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/mflohrc
@budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social
Middle aged punk from a Quaker family. Aspiring Danish Marxist Working on finishing a book on A Critical Theory of Capitalist Social Domination while I train to be a clinical social worker. Full Communism Now
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Political economy, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
@camilavergara.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy. Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
@kaiheron.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
@runestahl.bsky.social
Analyst at Oxfam Denmark - working on global economic inequality
@nrduford.bsky.social
archaeologist of the deranged. writing about the frankfurt school. interested in heterosexuality, psychoanalysis, and politics. wrote Solidarity in Conflict (SUP 2022) assistant professor doing political theory at smith college.
@sarahquinn.bsky.social
Sociologist who studies finance, housing, and the history of American political institutions. Broadly interested in cultural categories and power.
@brusselermel.bsky.social
US Programme Director @ https://www.common-wealth.org/ | a girl can dream
@iliasalami.bsky.social
Assistant prof political economy University of Cambridge Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020); The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!) Editor Economy and Society Member Second Cold War Observatory
@enzoreds.bsky.social
Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
@llchristyll.bsky.social
Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
@gilmorejon.bsky.social
philosophy PhD. historical materialist. free Palestine. trans rights. Chicago based. all takes my own. podcast @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social https://leftofphilosophy.com/ https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com
@danielagabor.bsky.social
@brunoleipold.com
Political theorist @lsepoltheory.bsky.social. Author of Citizen Marx. www.brunoleipold.com
@jessedamiani.bsky.social
🎙️Urgent Futures youtube.com/@UrgentFutures. Follow for big ideas in overshoot/climate, tech, philosophy, postgrowth ➡️ YT, Spotify, Apple Pods @urgentfutures.bsky.social 🧑🏫 Adjunct Assistant Prof, USC ✍️ realitystudies.co + NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
@leninology.bsky.social
Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
@samanthaculp.bsky.social
Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Prof Uni Flensburg • economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH • opinions my own
@stomarova.bsky.social
Law Professor teaching and writing on financial markets and regulation.
@mgmcquarrie.bsky.social
Sociologist at Arizona State University. Director of the Center for Work and Democracy: cwd.asu.edu. Writing on cities, politics, governance, labor, and liberation movements.
@stefeich.bsky.social
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023) https://stefaneich.com/
@ninaecon.bsky.social
Still working on a Mitski/Minsky pun and asking if it’s a crisis or a boring change https://ninaephd.org/
@martinoneill.bsky.social
Dad of four; London-Irish turned northerner; Arsenal fan; professor of political philosophy at the University of York; trustee at the Democracy Collaborative. Writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice.
@sandipto.bsky.social
Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social Currently, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @cambridgeup.bsky.social sandiptodasgupta.com
@graceblakeley.substack.com
Read Vulture Capitalism ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Grace.blakeley
@stevenklein.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Theory, King's College London. Writing a global history and philosophy of unions (Allen Lane/Oxford) and PI for DERISK https://www.derisk.org.uk/
@pmbigger.bsky.social
Research Director @cplusc.bsky.social. Political economy in the climate+ecological crisis. Anti fascist always. Terrible taste in music. climateandcommunity.org // https://bit.ly/pb_pubs
@genderhorizon.com
author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
@bhbradlow.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University. Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies. CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Climate change, urbanization, technology, democracy, the Global South.
@lenorepalladino.bsky.social
economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst https://www.lenorepalladino.com my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24
@davidstein.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
@rafkhach.bsky.social
Political theorist, educator, translator. Teaching at Penn and BISR. www.rafaelkhachaturian.com
@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
International law, historical materialism, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@benbraun.bsky.social
Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
@erinrpineda.bsky.social
“middle-brow theorist” aiming for low-brow, chicken enthusiast and author of Seeing Like an Activist (2021). tweets or whatever you call them here my own &c.
@cozyunoist.bsky.social
book on communism (+ value, mechanism, pol theory, naturalism) soon(ish). would love to hear from you @ cbelton-at-tuta.io. all tweets reports of present pathos https://writingpractice.substack.com
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
@jasonread.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
@stschrader1.bsky.social
cops, counterinsurgency, the cold war, & the color line | author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
@davidharvey.org
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@annpettifor.bsky.social
I write about the global financial system & its impact on the ecosystem. Books: The Production of Money, The Case for The GND (2018), The Coming First World Debt Crisis (2006). My newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
@atwilliams.bsky.social
macroeconomist and computer user at employamerica.org, editor at www.continuousvariation.com, guitars in Light Sweet Crude. if any posts look improper to you, they represent my personal views alone
@katforrester.bsky.social
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia immigrant writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
@marxinhell.bsky.social
Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
@corinneblalock.bsky.social
Executive Director of @lpeproject.bsky.social | lecturer in all the senses at YLS | also @lpenyc.bsky.social | JD, PhD | opinions are mine alone
@reallandsend.bsky.social
co-host Death Panel Podcast | co-author Health Communism with Artie Vierkant | blind/sick/surplus www.deathpanel.net www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod www.beatriceadlerbolton.com
@akapczynski.bsky.social
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
@abenanav.bsky.social
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso, currently: fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity • Race General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️
@jasonhickel.bsky.social
Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, and translator. Views do not represent those of my employer. Most recent book: www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919108/late-star-trek/ Star Trek Substack: akotsko.substack.com Academic blog: itself.blog Professional site: adamkotsko.com
@triofrancos.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Providence College Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020) Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019) Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)