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Berkay Koçak

@qerqay.bsky.social
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PhD Political Science | fellow @otago & @waikato | | political economy | social history of political theory | Kant | Website: drqerqay.com X: x.com/drqerqay

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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a system, capitalism’s dynamism lies not in responding to demand, but in investing beyond existing demand into uncertain futures of profitability. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Dylan Riley, Blind Guesses — Sidecar
Capitalism and the markets.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The striking idea in Dylan Riley’s new essay: What if the defining feature of contemporary capitalism is that political power has itself become a mechanism of value expansion—not merely something that regulates accumulation? theideasletter.org/essay/the-th...
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The Thesis of Political Capitalism
The defining feature of our era is, for Riley, the rise of “political capitalism,” in which profits increasingly depend on political power to inflate asset values rather than on productivity-enhancing…
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
While reading the critique of E. M. Wood’s Empire of Capital in this piece, I noticed that the same problem is addressed much more systematically and theoretically by Heide Gerstenberger (2010). katmanportal.com/e-m-woodun-s...
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E. M. Wood’un “Sermaye İmparatorluğu”nun Çelişkileri ya da “Politik Marksizm”in Ekonomizmi - Katman Portal
Çağdaş emperyalizm tartışmaları üzerine eleştirel değerlendirmelere kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. Bu yazıda E.M. Wood’un Sermaye İmparatorluğu çalışmasında çağdaş emperyalizmi, soyut ve tarihötesi...
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🎓 Delighted to share that I’ve graduated from the IDEAs Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy. After my PhD, I undertook the programme to deepen my understanding the political economy of Global South. Grateful to the researchers from across the Global South. 🙏
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ten years after the death of Ellen Meiksins Wood, I wrote a short piece revisiting her method of social history of political theory — reading ideas under the historical pressures of social property relations and class struggle. @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/ten-...
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Ten Years After Ellen Meiksins Wood: Reading Political Theory Under Historical Pressure - Historical Materialism
Ten years on, what would it mean to read political thought as a record of struggle, not a museum of ideas?
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Security guarantees rest on supply and logistics. If the U.S. must pull munitions from Europe and Korea to sustain a ME war, what do its global bases really guarantee? A hegemon confronting how decades of de-risking its military-ind base eroded its own power. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought
European and Asian countries worry the Pentagon is burning through munitions so fast that it won’t have enough to send the weapons they have purchased.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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HILLARY CLINTON REMIX
YouTube video by placeboing
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Excellent piece! Below @steffenmurau.bsky.social 's four scenarios for the future of international monetary order:
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Political Marxism Community @politicalmarxism.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
⏰New interview📢 "Suzi Weissman speaks with historian Robert Brenner and sociologist Dylan Riley about the deeper meaning of Trump’s return to power." podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/j...
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Jacobin Radio: Trumpism as Counterrevolution w/ Robert Brenner and Dylan Riley
Podcast Bölümü · Jacobin Radio · 27.01.2026 · 56 dk.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢POLS310 (Türkiye and Its Neighbours) is back! Explore modern Türkiye through political history, political economy & IR—linking nation-building, regime change, crises, and geopolitics across Europe/Middle East, the EU, NATO & Eurasia. Syllabus & readings: drqerqay.com/teaching/
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
In the hours after a regime collapse in Iran, inevitable to expect Israel/US strikes on Iran's military infrastructure to eliminate Iran’s future self-defence—echoing Israel’s attacks after Assad’s fall. thecradle.co/articles/air...
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Air supremacy or war: Iran and the US in West Asia’s final countdown
The battle for control of West Asia’s skies has moved from contingency to reality. Tehran and Washington have activated the final pieces of their war architecture, fully weaponizing the airspace.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
1/3 My standout read of 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ is this working paper by @dsundal.bsky.social. It models worker cooperation as a statistical equilibrium problem across market socialist labour supply, occupational allocation in worker owned firms, and above target innovative effort. researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
📌In their new article, DylanRiley and Robert Brenner revisit the arguments first outlined in Seven Theses (2022) and extend them into a comprehensive explanation of capitalism’s long downturn. Here’s a breakdown🔽 newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
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Political Marxism Community @politicalmarxism.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚨New Article Alert🚨 The Long Downturn and Its Political Results By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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Çağla Ekin Güner @caglaekinguner.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
📣My article “Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey” is published in the Special Issue “Migration Crises with Adjectives” in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Open access link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🌍 In our new @textumdergi.bsky.social mini series, we discussed Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber. 📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle. textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
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Climate change as class war: Interview with Matt Huber
Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War (2022, Verso) has sparked significant debates in Anglo-American circles with its class-based approach to the climate crisis. Rejecting consumption-focused narr...
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Some more "material"context to support this great article: Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...
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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This lecture is now posted on YouTube - see below. Final lecture in the series, on "Reorienting our way of seeing nature as a path to solidarity," is tomorrow night, local time www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...
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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 16/04/2025
Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing & the US is imploding. Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?? Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some comments: 📍This article offers an insightful analysis of Marx’s materialism and its impact on the history of political thought. Grounding political thinkers within their material contexts is crucial, and the discussion of historical materialism’s premises is key to that effort. 🧵
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
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Toward a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilities
This essay contributes to the development of a Marxist approach to the history of ideas based on Marx’s historical materialism. It first outlines historical materialism and its relevance to the stu...
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the best decisions in this article was removing the literature review to focus entirely on the strata of relationships that structure the dynamics between capital and the state—explaining the ontology of inter-state systems.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🏓Behind the U.S. plan to leave NATO or the UN lies a scheme by military-industrial and tech oligarchs to turn these institutions into "privatized premium" security services, where other countries subscribe and pay to be included.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Political Marxism Community @politicalmarxism.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📢New Article🌟 Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity by Maïa Pal brill.com/view/journal...
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Political Marxism Community @politicalmarxism.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🔵Hello Bluesky!☁️ 🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍👇 bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Skinner, Wood, and the two-fold Problem of Context” by @magnusz.bsky.social and “Contradictions and Possibilities in Marxist History of Ideas” by me. Both chapters are from a recent anthology “Philosophy and the History of Ideas” edited by Mikkel Thorup for @baggrund.bsky.social
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Filosofi & idéhistorie — Baggrund
Klima er ikke bare summen af vejr. Det er også blevet et symptom og tidsbillede på vor tid. Klima er blevet et af de væsentligste sprog, hvor inden for vi samtaler om og med os selv om, hvem vi er, og...
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Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte in der DVPW @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We regularly update our Starter Pack of the German-speaking community in political theory and history of ideas as well as a number of international accounts, mostly from institutions. So take a look at who has been added here in the last 3 weeks. We welcome suggestions for further suitable accounts.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Jobs, jobs, jobs... 🇳🇿faces not just a recession but an unprecedented downturn, with data slowly revealing the full extent. In the post-pandemic era, a low/no-growth, low-profitability paradigm dominates. Job growth & employment are now keys shaping public perceptions of politics.
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
post a photo of you from a different era. mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)
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Ali Yalçın Göymen @goymenyalcin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here is the nucleus of the list of critical intellectuals on/from Turkey. The list will be updated. go.bsky.app/5KxbZUg
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The initial “Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, etc.” starter pack is now full, so I have created “Part II,” which is growing rapidly. Please share if you find them helpful and if you think I should add someone or missed you, please reach out. go.bsky.app/5GR8AAt
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
You know we had to 😎
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
While watching I was surprised by Harvey's turn to AI from Bangladesh, but it is a crucial topic that demands public discussion, free from the influence of Muskmaniac X trolls, fanatics, and bots.
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Sune Vork Steffensen @sunevork.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It is Easter Sunday on Blue Sky! So happy to see the community-building here. Resistance begins from the creation of communities that combine outward power and inward care and solidarity.
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I started putting together a starter pack on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, and more. Please share if you find it useful and respond to this post if you feel like you should be added to the list (or removed for that matter).
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Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Kia ora followers! I am a postgraduate political science doctoral researcher with a dual focus on political economy and political theory. I’ll be mostly sharing insights from my work in these two areas, discussions on global capitalism, the climate crisis, and Marxism political theory.
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