I was lucky to study w/Asad while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down w/him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world in far poorer without him. x.com/BarnabyRaine/s…

Just heard of Asad Haider’s passing and it still doesn’t feel real. Brilliant, funny in the sharpest way, and never careless with his politics or his friendships. He showed what Marxist thought could be when carried with clarity and courage. His work and his spirit will keep

So sad to hear the news that Asad Haider has died Re-reading his piece on Gramsci viewpointmag.com/2020/05/28/pes…

From Asad’s Mistaken Identity:

I’m devastated to hear about the passing of Asad Haider, from whom I learned so much. I’ve returned to this essay on the meaning of Palestinian nationalism many times viewpointmag.com/2021/05/27/lan…

RIP Asad Haider!! A deep thinker who articulate more clearly than most the problems facing communists in our current moment. Others have shared many good prices of his but I have yet to see this one, which has a big impact on me. viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-…

Asad Haider—comrade, cherished thinker, colleague, and friend—has passed away. It is an understatement to say that Asad was a monumental figure, intellectually and interpersonally, for many people, including myself. His passing is an unbearable loss. viewpointmag.com/2020/05/28/pes…

Asad was a towering presence who not only broadened my thinking but also got me more deeply involved in organizing. He will be missed.

Asad Haider’s work hugely impacted my thinking on race, capitalism, identity politics. His book Mistaken Identity cut through noise at a loud moment in these debates, a clarifying intervention at a moment rife with distraction. I interviewed him in 2018. thedigradio.com/podcast/mistak…

Lots of people sharing crucial Haider essays. I always loved his “Emancipation and Exhaustion” essay, which forms, for me, part of triptych that includes On Depoliticisation and Dismissal (his essay on the cultural revolution). saaganthology.com/article/exhaus…

I met Asad a bit before the Occupy episode, during the UC "occupation movement" prelude to it, in fact. We shared interests, theoretical and historical, that many others in that milieu did not. This was once source of what I felt was our closeness, our understanding. 1/

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) historicalmaterialism.org/in-memoriam-as…

A beautiful and terribly sad remembrance of Asad Haider from Gavin Mueller

49 years ago, December 14 1976, the New World Liberation Front tried to bomb Diane Feinstein’s home in San Francisco. A pocket watch detonator fell from a ledge and the bomb didn’t go off. A communique from the NWLF demanded money for medical treatments for hospitalized prisoners

58 years ago, December 18 1967, hundreds of people organized by the Civil Action Day Committee began a two-day sit-in at the Oakland Induction Center to burn their draft cards. Over 250 people were arrested, including Joan Baez who was handcuffed while playing music for the crowd