this also feels inevitable in Europe — years of real-estate speculation + creating infinite short-term lets for bottom-feeders doing professional shitcoin speculation have created the perfect storm that the far-right are very well-equipped to capitalise on

Hab das gelesen und dachte ok vllt bisschen sehr inflammatory, und 3 Posts später die Nachricht das der Bundestag den israelischen anti UN think-tank UNwatch eingeladen hat um sie zu briefen 🙃

It was really engaging to think about imperialism with Costas Lapavitsas and Claude Serfati at Historical Materialism this summer - with a lively French audience! Promising that so many young people are interested in Marxism and (anti-)imperialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwW...

the closest thing to a peep out of bluesky was doubling down on suspending the accounts of people being shot at, bombed, and starved to death by israel. bluesky's efforts to deny palestinians access to aid will be studied in the future political violence is bad, unless you can do it with a keyboard

why is bsky moderating so egregiously? because they're tech fash who are trying to keep a brave face for the liberals with money

Abundance (of brain rot)

I fucking hate Bluesky, anytime anything *happens* the platform-mandated wholesomeness algorithm kicks in and you get endless cat videos and other twee garbage forced down your throat

I mean it has been abundantly clear for a while now that Bluesky is a whiter, more middle-class version of Linkedin

everything also makes more sense once you realise that he genuinely believes this stuff and isn't just a terrible political operator

ngl this is an improvement

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

never forget how many "respectable" western publications and journalists bear direct responsibility for enabling this

Liberal theories see universities and the press as inherently pro-democracy bastions of civil society. Marxist/materialist theories sees them as sources of the defense and reproduction of structures by which rich exploit poor. If prediction is the best test of theory, Marxism is winning right now.

European Century of Humiliation

when even the most craven liberals in the rest of the western world have started scrambling to pretend they opposed Israel's genocide all along, Germany remains steadfast and true to its proud tradition of appreciating a genocide whenever it sees one. this country is going to need another Nuremberg.

they should send the little prick on a flag comparison tour across the Balkans

alter ich liebe dieses Land, nirgendwo sonst findet man eine angeblich *linke* Politikerin, die völlig unironisch sowas droppt wie "mein Patenkind lebt in der Westbank"

extremely funny to switch and post this on Bluesky, the most conflict-avoidant bit of social media I've seen in my life

Starmer has played an absolute blinder and officially adopted Mette Fredriksen Thought. convince voters that a strong social democracy needs you to kick out the immigrants, kick out the immigrants, and then proceed to mug everyone off and get rid of social democracy anyway. masterful stuff

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

I stand with Diane Abbott.

jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. danke für die Übersetzung!

sie hatte uns was ganz anderes versprochen 😔

it is your pension funds pumping trillions of dollars into venture capital, and it is your states that have been shedding their capacity to do anything about this for half a century. you cannot simply "regulate" this stuff away because your states simply aren't set up to do any of this.

while this is true, it doesn't really matter — nothing prevents capital from deskilling labour (you don't have to pay as much to fix as you do to create), and from saving time by embracing sloppification. bit by bit, most firms will succumb to this pressure to save money.

it has been very clear for a while now that the Berlin police consistently lie to justify brutal violence against Palestine activists, and that they face zero consequences for doing so. it would do a lot of German liberals good to take a break from dooming about Trump and look at their own cities.

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

tbh this might end up helping Lula, and killing the option to run infinite export-driven growth backed by infinite American deficits might actually be precisely the kick up the pants that BRICS desperately needs

are these clear and stringent laws in the room with us right now?

they don't care because we've spent (at least) half a century making sure their sole function is to engineer markets for private capital to efficiently coordinate socioeconomic planning. i don't think we can reform or regulate our way out of this mess, since all of this is *by design*

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

tbh most people's lives kinda suck, yet they remain extremely depoliticised, so techno-optimism becomes literally only way they can envision anything ever getting better

manifesting the Neukölln Commune for 2026

the irony of it all is that this discipline isn't even going to be around for much longer now that corporations don't even need to bother pretending to be socially conscious

this is a good thing!! do we need to remind people of Chiquita funneling arms to far-right paramilitaries? do we need to remind people what labour conditions on coffee plantations are like today? the Global South should be celebrating the collapse of infinite deficit-fueled American consumption!

it is insane how so many people seem more concerned about "procedure" in this entire saga than about the fucking bombings themselves

using "madrasa" as a slur is also an extremely Hindu fash-coded thing to do, completely unsurprising coming from B*laji Srinivasan lol

no doubt Claudia Roth and the rest of the Berlin culture scene clown parade are delighted to hear this

truly no place in Europe more pathetic than Denmark. multiple decades of self-debasement and grovelling before the US, only to have them threaten to annex your last colonial possession, and your reflex is still to make this about the "threat of mass migration" somehow. masterclass in boot-licking

case in point: the tedious academic debates about "polarisation" in the German election, as if voting for Die Linke (social democrats at this point) is somehow functionally and morally equivalent to voting for the AfD, a neo-Nazi party.

extremely telling that Vance/Trump clearly have much more accurate narratives of how post-Fordist accumulation functions than most liberal orthodoxy does. history will truly vindicate Samir Amin now that the global South's export-driven dream is in tatters.

as terrible as this is, we need to engage with reality: copyright laws were never meant to protect writers, and there is no reason to expect them to do so now. that the incidental benefits of copyright law are now disappearing is the inevitable consequence of shifts in sites of accumulation.

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

shot/chaser with my previous post lmao

especially annoying considering how Germany has seen a major regression in academic freedom since the genocide began. a German newspaper published a hit-list of dissenting academics on their front page! please be real, this could absolutely happen here lmao

the difference, of course, is that European governments have so far been very happy to integrate into American empire and reap all the benefits it got them — unlike the global South, where freedom and democracy were met with American guns, bombs, and coups.

wir sind so back

infinite respect for American excellence, they have outdone the Modi/Ambani zoo photoshoot in less than two months