Marxist Twitter has been fighting about Vivek Chibber lately. Ben Burgis takes the opportunity to address the immediate controversy but also the much broader value of Chibber's work.

Read the Jacobin Chibber interview on the origins of capitalism that everyone is freaking out about:

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy

Read Ben's essay "Taking the Red Pill: William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix":

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/taking-the-red-pill-william-clare

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Ben Burgis talks about why he doesn't buy Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's defense of identity politics in Táíwò's book "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)."

Check out the book:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

Read Ben's review:

https://damagemag.com/2025/06/11/uncaptured-identity-politics-is-no-substitute-for-a-politics-of-class/

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Are service workers part of the "productive" part of the working class? And what does that mean? How about public sector employees--if they're not productive workers, does that mean that their interests don't align with productive workers and socialists shouldn't support the welfare state after all?

Ben Burgis talks about what the Trotskyist leader and Marxist economist Ernest Mandel gets right and wrong in his introduction to Capital Vol. 2.

Read Ben's essay:

benburgis.substack.com/p/are-service-workers-and-public-sector

Watch the Erik Olin Wright "Understanding Class" lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmiiSSMZPnE

Read his review of Jodi Dean's book:

https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-marx/

Read Dean's response to Ben:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies-a-response-to-ben-burgis

Read Ben's response to Dean's response:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-servants-a-response-to-jodi-dean

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Many-time GTAA guest Ana Kasparian went on Bill Maher's podcast Club Random. Ben Burgis watches the part where they argue about Gaza and breaks it down.

Read Ben's article "The “Human Shields” Defense of Bombing Gaza’s Civilians Is Morally Bankrupt":

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/human-shields-bombing-gaza-palestine-israel-defense-forces-morally-bankrupt

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Nick Fuentes is comically vile.

So, why is it so hard to exile him to whatever dark corner of the discourse he deserves to go back to?

One problem is that, when the whole landscape is soaking in ethnic essentialism, it's hard to draw the line at one particular version.

Read Ben's essay:

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/fuentes-is-a-symptom

Link for Andy's show:

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/meat-for-tea-presents-le-cirqu/1201459995272451/

Link for the Tallywacker one:

https://brendanboogie.substack.com/p/tallywacker-the-band-live-in-la

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The new edition of "Capital" has been getting a lot of buzz.

But...guys...it's really bad.

Read Ben's essay:

benburgis.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-fowkes-translation

Read Matt Huber's thread:

https://x.com/Matthuber78/status/1962512243343385070

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Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's critics on the Left think he's a sell-out for not backing a primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries or firing Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Some of them are about ready to denounce him as a fascist collaborator for sitting down with Donald Trump. Do any of these arguments add up?

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Donald Trump, who we keep hearing is a peacemaker, said his speech for the 250th anniversary of the founding of Navy that the U.S. only lost the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan because we got too "woke" about war tactics. Ben Burgis breaks it down.

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https://www.barfreda.com/#/events/156966

Read Ben's article in Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-vietnam-afghanistan-war-woke

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Both supporters and opponents of the Labor Theory of Value often assume that the LTV and Marx's theory of capitalist exploitation are a package deal. Others, like G.A. Cohen, have questioned that link. Ben Burgis takes a look at the debate, arguing that these two ideas are related...but not in the way a lot of people assume.

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Last week, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti had an interesting mini-debate on whether states and cities that don't cooperate with ICE are doing something wrong on the grounds that it involves a "neo-Confederate" rejection of federal supreamcy. Ben Burgis breaks it down.

Watch the 32-hour workweek video previewed at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr35Wr0H9mM

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