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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The USA is currently having a ‘socialist summer’, with centrist AIPAC-dependent Democrats panicking over recent electoral successes by DSA supporters. The question is, what can socialists do when elected if they are to avoid becoming ineffective? blackd.substack.com/p/why-rosa-l...

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

blackd.substack.com/p/radcliffe-... Our next stop was Brussels, markedly less exciting, but where a key Situationist, Raoul Vaneigem lived. We spent only a day with Raoul in his house outside Brussels; apart from a visit to a bar that had been a resistance meeting place during World War II....

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Monday June 22 saw the onset of a heatwave nasty enough to concentrate minds on physical survival rather than the political news of the day, but by teatime three of the UK’s most powerful political figures had, in various way, fallen with a resounding crunch. blackd.substack.com/p/hubris-uk

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

...one might think that - apart from the Winns - Penguin Books, its editors, SLAPP lawyers (and fact-checkers if they employ any) should be held responsible. But according to the Penguin press office, ‘due diligence’ was applied to the manuscript and it came out as sound as Moth’s medical tests.

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'The Beatles were semi-literate in music, barely knew how to play guitar. It was Theodor Adorno who composed their songs.' (OlavoCarvalho)'The Beatles offer something retarded in terms of its own objective content.. traditional techniques in degraded form'(Adorno) blackd.substack.com/p/lsd-made-m...

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Tripping Over History

LSD Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

1) Athens is universities purged of “wokeness"2) Jerusalem the Knights Templar (pending purging of the Vatican & the destruction of the EU by Christian nationalists, 3) “Silicon Valley” is a global network of data bases for building Thiel and Co’s Tower of Babel. blackd.substack.com/p/kants-cosm...

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Cosmopolis and Apocalypse

Perpetual Peace and Forever War

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

'more than a feast for academics, it is necessary fuel for revolution... Should the coming socialist revolution begin to turn into its opposite, this is the work that we will need to read—again and again—to get back on track.’ Peter McLaren blackd.substack.com/p/the-philos...

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The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism

Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical Thought - Ten Years On

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

blackd.substack.com/p/history-ne... Fukuyama knows that History didn't end in Berlin in 1989. He says the USA - for centuries the beacon of liberty - has taken a decidedly illiberal turn. Fukuyama hopes the neoliberal centrism of European Union leaders will prevail and overcome ethnonationalism.

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History Never Ended

Fukuyama's Reckoning

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Lundi Matin proposes that the problem is not that Bolloré owns Hachette but that something like Hachette exists blackd.substack.com/p/lempire-bo...

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Eleven BPC titles published since 2022 are available from Amazon as paperback and ebook. BPC has now purchased ISBNs and made arrangements with PublishDrive to get our ebook titles into the library network. blackd.substack.com/p/escaping-a...

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

blackd.substack.com/p/the-sinews... #Machiavelli “Welcome to a strange paradise. But where are you? Is this a new Margaret Atwood novel, Philip K Dick’s unpublished sequel to Blade Runner or Donald Trump on acid? No. It is the Persian Gulf city-state of Dubai.."

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'Sinews of War' - Machiavelli, MAGA and the Gulf Mercenaries

On 'rulers whose prudence is not up to the mark'

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Mark Fisher extends H.P. Lovecraft’s “steady dethronement of anthropocentric models… where things escape routine imprisonment inside the implicit hierarchy of the subject/object binary.” blackd.substack.com/p/capitalism...

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Eerie Capitalism

Into the Woods

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Red Chartist: Complete Annotated Writings, and her Translation of the Communist Manifesto, by Helen Macfarlane thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk/wp/

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Revelations of Peter Mandelson’s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein have drawn attention to Palantir’s employment of Mandelson’s lobbying company, Global Counsel. Palantir currently holds UK government contracts worth £670m blackd.substack.com/p/the-machin...

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The Machine Doesn't Stop

How 'woke' is AI?

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Just finished @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought - easily one of the best books I’ve read in recent years. Well-researched but also super timely and generative (see: No Kings). Read it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Citizen Marx

The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

1851 novel by Ernst Jones, Chartist lead and friend of Marx and Engels.Today, with the British left in Your Party making the latest attempt to regroup and unify its forces, Ernst Jones’ satire of a drunken evening serves as a sobering reminder: plus ça change. blackd.substack.com/p/as-soon-as...

Membership card of the Fraternal Democrats

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hy...

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The Don of Détournement

Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

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The Don of Détournement

Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

(In the Amazon Twilight Zone no one can hear you scream)

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

4 November is anniversary of the Newport Rising blackd.substack.com/p/the-newpor...

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This year’s Anarchists of London Bookfair takes place on Saturday 20 September at the Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel under Waterloo Station starting 10 a.m. B.P.C. Books will be sharing a table with Chronos Press.

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

‘Listen, dear brothers, you have embittered the hearts of your lords so greatly with an excess of gall that they will never be sweetened again’. The current rebellion was so far advanced any turning back would end in mass slaughter and a new stage of 'slavery'. blackd.substack.com/p/1525-the-g...

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1525 - The German Peasant War Re-assessed

Did Marx and Engels get it right?

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Lyndal Roper’s book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War 1525 aims ‘to understand the world the peasants inhabited through uncovering the rich details of their daily lives, and to reconstruct their beliefs…’ Reviewed at thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk/wp/the-1525-...

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David Black @pure-culture.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The last couple of years have seen Operation Julie: the Musical; The Microdot Gang: The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World by James Wyllie; new edition of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts. And there's this blackd.substack.com/p/lsd-alchem...