I updated my website after letting it lie fallow for over a year. It's easiest way to find links to all of my publications, including the two peer reviewed journal articles and a book chapter that I published in 2024. As always, DM me for PDFs of anything!

"I am antifa. I stand with comrades around the world who act from the love of life in every permutation. Comrades who understand that freedom means real freedom for all and a life worth living. Keep the faith! All power to the people! Bella ciao."

The state and federal governments have systematically dis-invested in higher education for decades and now Trump and co are going in for the killing blow. MAGAs think this just hurts "liberal elites" but its effects are going to hurt everyone--from cancer research to local arts.

Murray Bookchin: "There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society whose fundamental aim is self-administration in all facets of life can be achieved only by self-activity."

RT @spencerbeswick: My three favorite depictions of anarchistic societies in speculative fiction that I think everyone should read: 1) Ursu…

RT @spencerbeswick: On violence

Anyone need a last minute addition to a panel for next year's AHA? Anarchism, the left, feminism, social movements, politics + culture, etc...

"and pay for it with a gray, dull and wretched existence for themselves. I believe that there can be no real wealth, social wealth, so long as it rests on human lives." 2/2

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." 4/4 Howard Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (2004)

"What can we promise you? Ostracism and persecution. We can promise you more. We can promise you victory in the interest of the human race." -Eugene Debs speaking to three thousand farmers at a Socialist "encampment" in Oklahoma City in 1908

There's a certain kind of leftist rn with their head in the sand repeating "the US has always been fascist, this is nothing new" as Trump and Musk reshape the US state in their image. This is such a dangerous moment and the left needs to offer better analysis and leadership.

RT @JasonLegear: This is 100% correct but also white guys love being named Spencer Beswick

No matter your politics, it's obvious the US is falling apart. I simply cannot imagine blaming some of the least powerful social groups (immigrants and trans people) instead of the people at the top with decision-making power--call them oligarchs, capitalists, whatever you want.

Kristin Ross: "At once a mobilization and a territory shared in common, the commune form is a political movement that is also the collective elaboration of a desired way of life—the mean becoming the end."

Marge Piercy: "There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love."

Murray Bookchin: "The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking."

RT @DannyVegito: Feels like a bunch of billionaires are ripping the copper wires out of the walls of this country before it collapses