Alice Malone (@alicirce) / X

Alice Malone

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Alice Malone

@alicirce

Read broadly, like a bee. — Lu Xun

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Joined March 2022

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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Jun 20, 2023
The French Revolution proposed: 1) all humans are equal 2) politics and economics are inseparable There were 2 philosophical paths forward: 1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism 2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Mar 13, 2025
"The price of food has almost continually risen, while the price of manufactured articles and luxuries has almost continually fallen." — Marx, 1847
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Jan 11, 2023
Sci-hub cofounder Alexandra Elbakyan highlighted how gaining knowledge is associated with theft in some of the foundational myths of western culture. It's an interesting pattern, and I wonder how communism/abolition of private property would change how we think about science.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Nov 11, 2024
More scientists should be marxists because so many papers that I read are accidentally dialectical, and I think we could do better science if we were intentionally dialectical.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Nov 3, 2025
Wallace Shawn is trending, so it's a great time to read The Fever. It's a beautifully written monologue of the experience of being in the intelligentsia/middle class of the imperial core, and coming to terms with what that means for your way of life. Listen to an audiobook.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Apr 22, 2025
Apparently Khrushchev took one look at San Francisco traffic and decided the USSR needed to discourage personal car use.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Mar 26, 2022
No one told me the footnotes in Capital would be so interesting/funny. Here are some of my favourites, in no particular order
Alice Malone
@alicirce
Apr 17, 2024
This is a neat example of how you need other socioeconomic relationships to be present to use technology productively.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Jul 24, 2025
the imperialist mindset is when you're upset that a less developed country builds beach resorts for its own citizens instead of letting you stay there.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Mar 26, 2022
Replying to @alicirce
"It appears paradoxical to assert, that uncaught fish, for instance, are a means of production in the fishing industry. But hitherto no one has discovered the art of catching fish in waters that contain none." - Chapter 10
Alice Malone
@alicirce
Jul 29, 2025
In 1987, Deng Xiaoping said that if China could quadruple GNP per capita between 1981-2000, then quadruple it again by 2050, this "tremendous task" would demonstrate the superiority of the socialist system. So how's it going? 1981: $220 2000: $950 (4.3x) 2024: $13,660 (14x)
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Jul 15, 2025
Love this, a couple of econ profs are reinventing central planning because it turns out capitalism is not very good at innovation and they're getting outcompeted by China.
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Alice Malone
@alicirce
Mar 26, 2022
Replying to @alicirce
"Protestantism, by changing almost all the traditional holidays into workdays, plays an important part in the genesis of capital." - Chapter 10
Alice Malone
@alicirce
Feb 26, 2023
I'd like to introduce another factor into the relationship shown here: redsails.org/concessions/
B. Nux
@BumpyNUX
Feb 25, 2023
Yeah, I’m thinkin’ there’s a correlation here
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