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Future Histories LAB @futurehistories-lab.com · 03/10/2026

Excited to announce our media partnership with the 'Age of Planning?' conference at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social organized by @christophsorg.bsky.social, and with a Future Histories LIVE recording with @iliasalami.bsky.social and Dylan Riley. Find out more: buff.ly/ciCXIxB

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With governments buying stakes in AI and defense contractors, a new political economy is fueling imperialist scrambles abroad, while deepening illiberalism at home. Our essay of the week traces the rise of imperial state capitalism. By @iliasalami.bsky.social in @illsp.bsky.social buff.ly/fJRL9xn

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've got a new piece on imperial state capitalism and frontier tech! A prelude to the full lecture coming out soon in the pages of Antipode. @campolis.bsky.social

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remember when Anthropic were the good guys?

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure what people at the Anthropic Institute are smoking, but it must be good stuff. "GDP growth then rises to 15 percent per year, the labor share of income falls from 60 to 45 percent, and nearly one in five cognitive workers is unemployed." www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzov...

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Very excited to be delivering the 2026 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture next week, “Imperial State Capitalism and the Long Arc of History”!

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This stops in 2022. I imagine that we'll see a pretty much vertical line for the years 2022-2026, once these are included in the database.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 13/08/2026

I thought this piece from two days provided useful context regarding the on-the-ground situation. As @iliasalami.bsky.social recently explained to me, there's a question of how many good jobs this (impressive) late green industrialization path will generate.

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Why Morocco’s ‘forgotten’ young are fleeing to Europe

Failure to translate growth into better living standards has driven migration attempts into Spain’s Ceuta enclave

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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

1/9 I am very happy to share a new special issue of the Journal of Economic Policy Reform, which I co-edited with Merve Sancak and Andreas Nölke: “Industrial Policy beyond the Hegemons” which examines how non-hegemonic powers respond to geoeconomic competition.

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reading today Giovanni Arrighi's 2-part essay "Hegemony unravelling" (published in 2005), which is on the "the terminal crisis of US hegemony" precipitated by the Iraq invasion, is a surreal experience

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Literally cambridge prof lol, but...

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Is there a good soul out there willing to share a PDF of the 2026 issue of Socialist Register? socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...

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Vol. 62: Socialist Register 2026: Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins | Socialist Register

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What does a grain have to do with anti-fascist economics? Everything. Penguin put the whole argument on the UK cover of my book. A thread 🌾

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For a materialist analysis that outlines how state capitalism is already advancing 'nationalisation' within the AI and energy sectors and why we need a politics of internationalism and pacifism read @iliasalami.bsky.social in @transitionsec.bsky.social transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...

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Imperial State Capitalism

A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"The U.S. has long prospered because it has avoided the snares of state capitalism. It’s how the U.S. defeated the keiretsu model of Japanese business and the state ownership in Europe. China’s state-owned industries are the weakest part of its economy." www.wsj.com/opinion/open...

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Opinion | The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

OpenAI considers a Faustian bargain with the U.S. government.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

5/ @iliasalami.bsky.social: "Also funny that "industrial policy may be ok in some cases but you shouldn't do it because you don't have the fiscal/administrative capacity" is precisely what IMF/OECD/etc. tell developing countries. Now the FT tells the rich world: "China does it, but you shouldn't"

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Un ouvrage excellent de @romaricgodin.bsky.social Quelle fierté d'en avoir inspiré quelques arguments

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

👉 @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on Trump state capitalism contradictions: expands mineral supplies but undermines policy coherence; ending free trade opens Global South opportunities but reinforces subordination phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

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Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Also funny that "industrial policy may be ok in some cases but you shouldn't do it because you don't have the fiscal/administrative capacity" is precisely what IMF/OECD/etc. tell developing countries. Now the ft tells the rich world: "china does it, but you shouldn't". The irony!

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is *exactly* the kind of liberal anxieties that we wrote about in the penultimate chapter of The Spectre of State Capitalism. Could have written this edito myself. The risks of borrowing from China’s economic playbook - www.ft.com/content/b5d6...

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The risks of borrowing from China’s economic playbook

Western governments must ensure industrial policy does not turn into unchecked state expansion

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The UK must decarbonise. A state-led planning approach is key to this mission but requires increased capacity. Our current institutional architecture is fragmented, underpowered & built for a different era. 🧵This is how to fix it. Simone Gasperin 🖊️ www.common-wealth.org/publications...

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Mapping UK Green Planning Architecture

The UK's green planning institutions are fragmented and underpowered. To deliver decarbonisation, this institutional architecture must be reimagined.

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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“‘We should take stakes in companies when people need something,’” he recently declared. “‘Some people would say that doesn’t sound very American. I think it is very American.’” @iliasalami.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump the state capitalist. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

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Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Trumpian state capitalism is designed to benefit oligarchs and empire, not the public. CCI's @triofrancos.bsky.social examines this through the prism of critical minerals with @iliasalami.bsky.social for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In Phenomenal World, @iliasalami.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social examine the core features and fault lines of Trumpian state capitalism, as manifest in the United States’ quest to secure critical minerals.

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Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“The Trump administration is currently involved in an expansive project to reposition the US national economy and the US state within global critical minerals networks.” @iliasalami.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump’s state capitalist turn. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

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Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

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