About

Hi, I’m Carl Beijer. Or at least, that’s what my pen name has been for the last decade. But it’s how everyone knows me now, so I’m sticking with it.

This blog is about politics from a Marxist perspective. I’ve taught him in college, and I wrote my graduate thesis on Marxist ideology. I take Marx’s critique of capitalism quite seriously, though you’ll find that I have a lot of idiosyncratic ideas of my own, too.

That’s the main reason to read me. Another is that as someone who has been at this for nearly 25 years, I blog for the love of the game. I am not trying to get a job in media or academia or to pander to my colleagues; I write what I want when I want, and that means I often end up saying things that no other writer will.

It was only recently that I gained a modest audience, which I am enormously grateful for. My writing is occasionally reprinted in Jacobin; elsewhere, I’ve done stuff for In These Times and People’s Policy Project, among places. I haven’t kept track of everywhere I’ve done guest appearances, but they include stuff like The Katie Halper Show, Chapo Trap House, and The Majority Report.

Outside of blogging, I live in rural Virginia in an old quiet house with two dogs. I’ve also lived in DC, Stockholm, Kyiv, and Moscow. In my free time I like to read dry books on neuroscience and play games where you build and manage cities.