Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fantastic book launch last night in LA. Really fun doing this with Mike and Meagan, we got great questions, and best of all we sold all the copies in the box they sent us so Mike and I don't have to find room in our luggage when we fly to NY in a couple of hours for Stop #2. 041
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bhaskar and Mike and I are in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today with an article previewing one of the core arguments of The Blueprint:jacobin.comEconomic Democracy Is at the Heart of SocialismDemocracy should not end when the workday begins. Workers deserve a say over how their workplaces are run — and a claim on the wealth they create. 020
Reposted by Ben BurgisMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you're in Atlanta on Sunday, October 11th Ill be discussing The Blueprint by Mike Beggs and @sunraysunray.bsky.social with co-author @benburgis.bsky.social At Acapella Books. www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...acappellabooks.comBen Burgis in conversation with Matt McManus – The Blueprint | Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 4:00 PM“Nothing is more urgently needed in our troubled world than a blueprint for socializing capital, democratizing workplaces, restoring the commons, decommodifying basic goods and harnessing markets to s... 052
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a great review of The Blueprint--sympathetic, clear, gets what we're doing, and really thoughtful where he disagrees.compactmag.comWhat Democratic Socialists WantThe surprising electoral success of avowedly socialist candidates in big-city mayoral campaigns and some congressional races has raised the profile of the Democratic Socialists of America, forcing peo... 071
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I regret to inform you that you can no longer pre-order The Blueprint. You have to just...order it. 171
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Los Angeles friends! The book launch for The Blueprint is TOMORROW. Come see me and Mike Beggs at 512 N. Hoover Street in Silver Lake at 7 PM on Tuesday, moderated by the great Meagan Day:eventbrite.comThe Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldA book launch with authors Mike Beggs and Ben Burgis, moderated by Meagan Day 041
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026About to go live to chat a bit about the book that's dominated the last six years of my life and is finally coming out TOMORROW.youtube.comWhy We Wrote "The Blueprint" (Which Comes Out TOMORROW)YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis 030
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Two days!eventbrite.comThe Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldA book launch with authors Mike Beggs and Ben Burgis, moderated by Meagan Day 140
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This week's Philosophy for the People essay:benburgis.substack.comWhy We Wrote “The Blueprint”: Some Reflections on the Book That’s Dominated the Last Six Years of My LifeWe want to restore the Left’s confidence that a post-capitalist horizon is even possible. 020
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Amazon box that came tonight. He barely fits in it, but he's not going to let a minor detail like that stop him. 080
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This week's Friday Pick at my Substack is @ryanzickgraf.bsky.social's article on the Socialism conference at @damagemag.bsky.social, "The Victims of Socialism." This is just the right way to write about this stuff in 2026--neither wagon-circling defensiveness nor feeding into the Right's narrative.benburgis.substack.comFriday Pick: “Victims of Socialism” by Ryan ZickgrafThis is exactly the right way to write about Left stupidities in 2026 000
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The mini-book tour for The Blueprint starts next Tuesday in Los Angeles! 1130
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not, mind you, that I suspect that we have particularly fierce competition among new releases in "Labor & Industrial Economic Relations" this week, but whatever. WE'RE NUMBER ONE. 020
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026About to go live to play a presentation I made at UC-Irvine about the problem of the middle class for Marxist class analysis + chat a bit about how to apply the point to thinking about some very bad recent criticisms of the DSA.youtube.comMarxist Analysis of "the PMC" (+ Defending DSA)YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis 021
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This week's Philosophy for the People essay is a reprint of my tribute to my grad school professor Quentin Smith, originally written shortly after he died in 2020. If I were writing it today, there are things I'd do differently, but it seemed best to keep this one as a time capsule.benburgis.substack.comRemembering Quentin SmithA reprint of my tribute from 2020 011
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lack of imagination on my part, I guess, but I'm trying to imagine a way of styling hair that would "frighten their enemies" and I'm coming up short. 320
Reposted by Ben BurgisJ. Andrew World should be drawing @rightaboutnow2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@carlos.how just finished this. 151
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just clicked on a Substack article about Marxist stuff on Google Chrome and got a little auto-notification asking if I wanted Gemini to "summarize the philosophical ideas" for me. Honestly made me feel slightly physically nauseated. This is a godawful path for society to go down. 051
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New York friends, come see me and @mikejbeggs.bsky.social and @sunraysunray.bsky.social talk about our new book two weeks from Thursday! 042
Reposted by Ben BurgisAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology 121096240
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up--it's a lightly edited transcript of my talk last week at the Western Michigan University Philosophy Department about Rawls, Cohen, and "The Blueprint."benburgis.substack.comMoral Egalitarianism and Viable SocialismSome points about Rawls’s theory of justice, G.A. Cohen’s critique of it, and the kind of socialism that Bhaskar Sunkara and Mike Beggs and I advocate in “The Blueprint.” 041
Reposted by Ben BurgisJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good.jacobin.comThe GOP’s Enemy #1 for the Midterms: SocialismDonald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good. 42510
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026On air right now with @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Florian Maiwald!youtube.comDon't RETVRN: Liberal Modernity as the Basis for Socialism (ft. Matt McManus and Florian Maiwald)YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis 022
Reposted by Ben BurgisMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Tommorow Florian Maiwald and I discuss our book "What is Liberal Socialism?" with @benburgis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZC...youtube.comDon't RETVRN: Liberal Modernity as the Basis for Socialism (ft. Matt McManus and Florian Maiwald)YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis 171
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just saw this and it's got to be one of my all-time favorite sentences I've ever read in a non-satirical news article: 150
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This really feels like the kind of thing that should stay between Magdi and her doctor: 040
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extremely dumb philosophy joke I amused myself way too much by putting into today's slides for the Substack philosophy class (where we're currently a few weeks into slowly reading through Cohen's "Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality"): 010
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Going live at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST to play the video from my lecture at Western Michigan University ("Is Capitalism the Best We Can Do?") and talk about it a bit. This was the very first public event I did for The Blueprint (which doesn't technically come out until September 29th). Many more to come!youtube.comIs Capitalism REALLY the Best We Can Do? (Ben Burgis Lecture in Michigan)YouTube video by Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis 010
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A long day of many, many flight delays yesterday, but a great trip, and great to be, as the immortal BB King once sang, "back in LA." And my author copies from Verso were waiting for me when I got back! Guys, the book looks so good. 081
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I know the name is one that people here are less likely to recognize than some of the other blurbs I've posted for The Blueprint, but Cosma is a significant figure in the twenty-first century edition of the Socialist Calculation Debate and we were truly excited to get this one. 130
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Getting in one last one at the airport bar before I once again fly into exile from my historic homeland (Michigan): 140
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One of the all-time "doesn't happen much but it makes me happy when it does" things is when I'm somewhere to talk about the stuff I spent 99% of my time these days talking about and someone asks me about "Logic Without Gaps or Gluts" (my academic monograph about the Liar Paradox). 150
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Happy to see Zohran doing the lord's work keeping AI out of elementary + middle schools. But also a little depressing that doing even doing that much is controversial. With the narrowest exceptions, it doesn't belong in high school, college, or postgraduate education either. 1110
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The book launch for The Blueprint will be September 29th in Los Angeles. (NYC will be two days later--info for that imminent!) 040
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A lot is going on right now, in the country and the world, that seems Not Great--from stubbornly persistent inflation to a wildly unpopular war in Iran. But Congress found time this week to pass a symbolic resolution condemning the DSA. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:jacobin.comWith Anti-DSA Bill, Congress Is Red-Baiting Like It’s 1955The House just passed a resolution condemning the Democratic Socialists of America and socialism broadly. While it rehearses opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism, the bill’s real preoccupation is ... 061
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Listen to @astra.bsky.social and pre-order The Blueprint! 041
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Tomorrow, in Kalamazoo, MI--free and open to the public. 070
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026With any luck we'll have a poster very soon but the book launch for The Blueprint is going to be in Los Angeles--from 7 to 9 PM on September 29th at In The Meantime LA at 512 N Hoover St. in Silver Lake, with Meagan Day moderating. Free and open to the public! 130
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Another blurb for The Blueprint that makes me happy: 040
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026letterboxd.comA review of Buddy (2026)Equal parts Backrooms, Cabin in the Woods, Camp Miasma and, obviously, Barney & Friends. Great stuff. Also, spoiler warning I guess--and an apology in advance since I know this is me at my most annoyi... 000
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Blueprint has a bunch of blurbs that make me happy but this is personally the one that makes me the happiest: 160
