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@beerandfreedom.bsky.social
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I write introductory essays on Marx, Marxism, and Marxist Ecology. In Muskoka ML beerandfreedom.substack.com/?utm_ca…

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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reading Capital... Slowly substack.com/@beerandfree...
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Reading Capital... Slowly
Chapter 1: The Commodity, Section 1: The Two Factors of the Commodity: Use-Value and Value (substance of value, magnitude of value)
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great to see the Narwhal do the kind of journalism that literally all Canadian pubs should be doing right now.
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the climate struggle isn't an environmental struggle. it's a class struggle. it's a struggle against capitalism and towards communism, the highest stage of ecology
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look what arrived @therewasnosound.bsky.social
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"This shameful and cowardly act is but another sign that the Carney government, despite its lip service to Canadian sovereignty and independence from the United States, is in fact in lock step with U.S. foreign policy." canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2026/07/07/c...
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CNC Statement on Canada’s Abstention at the United Nations – Canadian network on cuba
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“ #Reification, the habit we’re about to walk through, doesn’t just misdescribe the world; it forecloses it, so that seeing what’s really there instead of what merely looks like it’s there is where movement becomes thinkable again” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Moments 08 - Marx's Ontology
or why nothing you own is quite as independent as it looks
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mark Carney says the war with Iran was "worth it." But worth it for whom? Thousands are dead, civilian infrastructure is destroyed, and the international order the prime minister says need upholding is left in tatters. Diplomacy, not war, offered the better path.
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Carney says the war against Iran was ‘worth it.’ He’s wrong
Prime Minister Mark Carney argues the war against Iran was justified because it halted Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The evidence, Ted Snider writes, suggests otherwise. Iran was not building a...
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Marx in Moments 07 — Commodity Fetishism
or how a social relation learns to wear the body of a thing
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 01/06/2026
When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is. The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away. An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“In actual history, it is a notorious fact that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, in short, force, play the greatest part. In the tender annals of political economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial.” — Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, p. 874. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Moments 06 — "So-Called" Primitive Accumulation
Or how every deed begins with violence
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struggle-la-lucha.bsky.social @struggle-la-lucha.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Bolivia strike grows as government hits labor leader with terrorism charge – Struggle – La Lucha
Bolivian police seize a protester during the crackdown on the general strike against President Rodrigo Paz. TeleSUR reported May 19 that more than 127 people ha
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Sandi Martin @sandifp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Every time it seems that Mark Carney uses the word 'sovereign,' what he actually means is 'Canadian corporate profits.' I am compelled to share more from @nolore.bsky.social's post this morning: noraloreto.substack.com/p/carneys-ai...
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Carney's AI promise that no one asked for
Mark Carney announced on Bluesky yesterday, “it’s time to build.” This was on the heels of an announcement in Vancouver where MPs, mayor Ken Sim and employees from Telus announced that Telus would bui...
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/05/2026
But if I read Marx I have to google what things mean that’s called learning. I understand it’s scary but you can do it. It’s a process but adding new things to your brain can be fun
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In such moments, Karl writes, we are compelled to “view the past and the present with the eagle eye of thought in order to become conscious of our real position.” #Marx open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Surplus 05 - Marx's Letter to His Father (1837)
Philosophy at 4 a.m.
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“ #Thought must locate itself within the real, not above or beyond it. The #rationalstructure is #immanent to the object's own movement, not imposed on it from outside.”
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New from me just in time for Marx's birthday. Exploring the letter Marx wrote to his father from Berlin University in 1837. beerandfreedom.substack.com/p/marx-in-su...
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Marx in Surplus 05 - Marx's Letter to His Father (1837)
Philosophy at 4 a.m.
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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
EARTH IN 2050: A STARK VISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/04/e...
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Earth in 2050: A stark vision of environmental decline | Climate & Capitalism
UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions…
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Comrade workers! May Day is coming, the day when the workers of all lands celebrate Their awakening to a class- conscious life, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 28/04/2026
The world’s largest oil trader, Vitol Group, reported making profits about of about $2 billion in one quarter on the back of volatility induced by the Iran war. Households have effectively been taxed to subsidise the profits of big finance. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/households...
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Households Paid for the Iran War. Speculators Got Rich.
Deregulated financial markets transmitted the cost of war straight to households - and the profits straight to Wall Street.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
from @criticofpolecon.bsky.social Mark Carney announced a Canadian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and it will probably suck. open.substack.com/pub/criticof...
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Mark Carney announced a Canadian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and it will probably suck.
Canadian PM Mark Carney just announced the creation of the “Canada Strong” sovereign wealth fund (SWF).
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The ecological thread running through Marx's work is very clear when you actually read him. Crazy how misread he is on this issue. mronline.org/2026/04/23/m...
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Marx in Moments 04 – Metabolic Rift - MR Online
This is the fourth entry in the Marx in Moments series.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Exploring why the social brain of humanity is capitalism's next enclosure. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Moments 05 — The General Intellect
Why the social brain of humanity is capitalism's next enclosure
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Very helpful episode with a lot of useful and practical advice. Thanks for this, Blueprints/ARC.
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“ #Capitalist #production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all #wealth - the soil and the worker.” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Moments 04 – Metabolic Rift
Why the system consumes its own foundation
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Quick hit on an underappreciated aspect of Marx's work. Exploring why capitalism is structurally incapable of maintaining a sustainable relationship with the earth. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
More audacity, comrades! More confidence in the strength of the revolutionary classes, especially the proletariat, enriched as they now are by new experience; more independent initiative! All the signs indicate that we are on the eve of a great struggle.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Suggesting that we use Nestle's infrastructure for social good is a logical and realistic position. Allowing a private company to wreak havoc with the product of our collective labour is the radical one Our common sense has been inverted beerandfreedom.substack.com/p/it-was-alw...
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It Was Always Ours
Marx and the Case for Taking Back the Means of Production
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“The #societies that most of us find ourselves living in are very effective at limiting our ability to think beyond the existing social architecture. This is not an accident; it is constant and deliberate, working at such a level that makes it difficult to notice.” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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It Was Always Ours
Marx and the Case for Taking Back the Means of Production
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I started a new series on Muskoka. Marx in Muskoka 01 - Consumed by a Reflection open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Muskoka 01 – Consumed by a Reflection
The Myth of Narcissus and the Group of Seven
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"The NDP recently proposed a bill to close the U.S. loophole, but a majority of Liberal MPs voted it down over concerns that such regulations might incur the wrath of the American government and harm Canada economically." www.readthemaple.com/did-global-a...
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Did Global Affairs Try To Scrub Record Of Israel Arms Transfer?
“I think that the changes they are making now is actually just pushing for less transparency.”
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My short piece on Marx's concept of Species-Being and the ecological implications can be found on Monthly Review Online. mronline.org/2026/03/31/m...
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Marx in Moments 03 – Species-Being - MR Online
Why We Are Not Separate from the Earth.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NDP, Liberals, and Conservatives currently fighting over a sliver of the spectrum so small it could fit through a needle's eye. Even the compatible left is working overtime today
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No one is protesting Palantir in Canada, even though the OPP has been using it for years, and the federal government is using it too. The Prez of Palantir Canada is our former ambassador to the US, and he chairs the company building the "spa" at Ontario Place. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
there's a new issue of New Feeling out in the world!
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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Michael Löwy: Neo-fascism is the best term to describe both the continuity and the novelty of the 21st-century far right. climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/28/t...
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The far right as a global phenomenon: the ecosocialist alternative | Climate & Capitalism
Mass movements are needed to block the rise of authoritarian and ecocidal governments…
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Spudley Boo-Right 👻 @spudleydo-right.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spox Baqaei on Canada's new sanctions: "Appeasing bullies & fascists does not stop them؛ it only whets their appetite." The Canadian government will happily follow along with the US because we have leaders who never developed spines and love money.
Quote Tweet from Esmaeil Baqaei, Iranian FM spokesperson. 

Appeasing the bullies and aggressors, by pressuring, the victim will hardly keep you spared from (the consequences of) their lawlessness and bullying. Appeasing bullies and fascists does not stop them It only whets  thei appetite. 

Tweet from MP Anita Anand: Canada announces more sanctions against Iran.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Marx in Moments 03 - Species-Being. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Moments 03 – Species-Being
Why We Are Not Separate from the Earth
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Jon Thompson @jonthompson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
More from the Privacy Commissioner on FOI: “Taking away Ontarians’ access rights— retroactively and into the future— denies them the information they need to understand government decision-making at the highest levels & hold their governments to account.” www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...
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Updated statement on proposed changes to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
TORONTO, ON (March 25, 2026) – For nearly forty years, Ontarians have had the right to access government-related records at the highest levels.
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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“One of the world’s leading ecosocialists offers a sweeping journey through metabolic-rift theory, a powerful and highly readable account of Marxist ecological thought and the science of the Earth System." -Adam Hanieh climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/25/m...
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Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System | Climate & Capitalism
“A stunning investigation of our ecological crisis … an urgent and indispensable book.”…
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Someone just called me a democrat on Substack and it genuinely hurt my feelings.
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A spectre is haunting Canada 👹 @esunaproxy.solidarity.social · 23/03/2026
The fucking audacity of liberals to say that communism always fails while they see capitalist nations band together in an act of intentional starvation against Cuba is so bloody maddening.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"We’ve got to protect ourselves against the communist Chinese that are infiltrating our country…” – Doug Ford
Doug Ford's big dumb face.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
3 minute read on Ontario's FOI rollback and the role of the state. open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
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Marx in Motion 02 - Nothing to See Here
Ontario's FOI rollback and the state doing exactly what it's designed to do
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“The contradictions between the prevailing feudal order and a rising capitalist one are integral to Romeo and Juliet. Without this, the Montagues and Capulets would not have existed nor have entered a blood feud.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #philosophy #shakespeare #friday
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 20/03/2026
Marxism can still change the world mronline.org/2026/03/20/m...
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Marxism can still change the world - MR Online
I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative.
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a #contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity." - #Hegel h/t @beerandfreedom.bsky.social
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19/03/2026
The real comrades are steadily separating themselves from the mass of fake bitches
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On the Environment and Climate Change cuts. Remember when Carney ran partly on climate credibility - the whole sustainable finance framing? From @nolore.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
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Counting the cuts
Mark Carney's attacks on Canada's public service should concern all Canadians.
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Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Carney government's actions would certainly lead Trump to believe he can do anything he wants to Cuba, as they have refused to even condemn the oil blockade, let alone take meaningful action in solidarity. Canada must send oil to Cuba now!
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16/03/2026
Horrific. Death to US imperialism The condition of their electrical grid is inseparable from the decades long embargo and current blockade www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power
The blackout is the latest in a series of widespread outages that last for hours ​or days and that this weekend sparked a rare violent protest in ⁠the communist-run country.
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