There will be no clean break: oil and gas will not be easy to shake off. We are, however, beginning to see a challenge to the dominance of fossil capital, and a path toward a world dominated by electricity.

Full house at the critique of AI workshop today! ⚡️ organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social Some of the discussion points/statements below: 1/2

Eva Völpel und Sabine Nuss sprechen darüber, wie und warum wir extremen Reichtum anders besteuern sollten - aber auch, warum das alleine nicht ausreicht, wenn man Ungleichheit bekämpfen will. Hört jetzt die neue Folge von Armutszeugnis 👉 www.rosalux.de/media... #Vermögenssteuer

I look forward to the roundtable “Critique of AI” on Monday with @bildoperationen.bsky.social, Rainer Mühlhoff, Matteo Pasquinelli & @cominsitu.bsky.social. Perfect timing, as it's the release week of my book Kybernetik und Kritik 🎉(@suhrkamp.de): criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...

Militärisch aufrüsten, sozial abrüsten – das ist Bastard-Keynesianismus, sagt Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social. Warum dieses Gegeneinander-Ausspielen?

Excellent piece by my colleague @cominsitu.bsky.social for our Fascism&Liberalism blog! 📖A must-read!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟬𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀? In this timely article, Claus Thomasberger discusses the new book by #Palantir executives Karp & Zamiska drawing on insights from Polanyi and David Graeber 👉Read here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/01/29/f...

studying the history of electricity can lead to positive impacts on society

Daniela Russ - Working Nature A History of the Energy Economy À paraître en avril chez Verso

🚀Our research project launched its new website! check it out here: socializationproject.de

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁? 👉 In this new F&L blog piece, Andreas Novy explains why both “green” and “de-” growth agendas have so far proved unsuccessful in meeting climate targets - and he outlines 4 cornerstones of an anti-fascist climate politics

An epidemic of workforce demoralization? "Intensive AI use is demotivating and deskilling, fuelling boredom and mediocrity. We could even see a reverse ‘productivity J-curve’: short-term productivity gains rapidly overwhelmed by a deterioration in labour quality" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Finally made it to bluesky, just to share my conversation with Jan Groos about socialisation as transformation strategy 🙂

4 Learnings about the interconnection of fascism and liberalism: A thread 🧵 To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings: (1/6)

Man könnte ja zur Erkenntnis kommen, dass Profitorientierung bei Grundbedürfnissen wie Energie (Wasser, Gesundheit) prinzipiell eine schlechte Idee sind - anstatt das Aktienrecht zu "korrigieren." Ein liberalisierter Energiemarkt stellt weder leistbare Grundversorgung noch die Energiewende sicher.

John O’Neill on Neurath’s critique of pseudorationalism in the socialist calculate debate

Great piece by @proufos.bsky.social on the historical trajection of central bank independence! 🏦 👇Read below to understand why we should not defend it as the base of economic stability and democracy

had a great time at the labour environmentalism conference today at @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social - learned a lot from my fellow panellists Ralf Hoffrogge and Jary Koch in our panel discussion on socialisation struggles in the coal, steel and chemical industries! ⛏️🏔️🏭👩‍🔬✊

Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️

First @histmat.bsky.social conference – but definitely not the last! I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

“Cataclysm Capitalism” is a term that attempts to grapple with the dizzying speed and acceleration of today's fascist attacks on democracy and our shared environment To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!

@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners. Check it out and follow their work! www.common-wealth.org/publications...

In 2008 our financial institutions collapsed under their weight of their incompetence and avarice. Rather than sending the people responsible to jail we bailed them out with taxpayer money and made massive spending cuts to pay for it. And we’ve NEVER recovered.

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Statt damit die Zukunft zu gestalten, bedient sich die Bundesregierung am Klimafonds um Stromnetz und Klimastrafen zu finanzieren.

Economic liberalism and fascism often present themselves as opposites.. Yet, beneath their apparent contradictions lies a shared foundation, argues @nataschastrobl.bsky.social in the latest f&l blog piece! ➡️Find out more following the link below #fascism #flblog #liberalism #antifascisteconomics

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Everyone talks about the Religious Right + white supremacy when it comes to fascism - but what about the billionaire-funded libertarian right quietly reshaping politics? That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social ! 📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...

Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)". criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Die International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS) hat einen neuen Blog mit dem Titel "Fascism and Liberalism – Today and Yesterday" gestartet. Der erste Beitrag steht schon zum Lesen bereit. Wir wünschen einen guten Start! Mehr Informationen gibt es hier: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/07/31/f...

The first F&L blog piece by Clara Mattei and Aditya Singh is out now! „Just as Hitler advanced a militarized version of the austerity regime […] today’s European agenda of growing militarization at the expense of social welfare reveals a chillingly similar logic“ ▶️ see full text below

🚨Exciting News! 🚨 We just launched our new blog “Fascism and Liberalism - Yesterday and Today” which will be published weekly on Thursdays starting with a great piece by Clara Mattei and Aditya Singh next week! Learn more here and stay tuned! www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/07/31/f...

I am speaking at a #KPÖ Vienna workshop on democratic economic planning on May 10th - Registration still open until Sunday! @kpoe.bsky.social

For the first time since WWII an extreme right party is #1 in the German polls. Anti-fascist economic policy is urgently needed. Instead the new coalition agenda entails: - cut profit tax - end 8 hr workday - open tap for defense, austerity for the rest - weaken social security

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

Vor einer Woche fuhr ein Neonazi in #Mannheim in eine Menschenmenge und ermordete zwei Menschen. Viele mehr wurden verletzt. Das Interesse der herrschenden Politik geht inzwischen gegen Null. Das Sicherheitsgefühl von Menschen ist egal, sobald die Täter weiße deutsche Neonazis sind.

It’s now official, in written words, the oligarchs want to exterminate the rest of us.

The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇

Musk making 2 unmistakable Nazi salutes back-to-back, having the ADL and so many others cover for him, while German police arrests students in Munich for discussing university ties with Israel, and Palestinians search their destroyed neighborhoods for the remains of their families. Welcome to 2025.

Join our webinar on Shaping Provisioning Systems for Eco-Social Transformation! I’ll introduce the topic, followed by Ian Gough on production corridors, Halliki Kreinin & Doris Fuchs on structural barriers, and @colleenschneider.bsky.social on monetary systems. Register here: invt.io/1exbwyou6up

On December 18th 2024, Solveig Degen and me held a presentation on "#Banks in the #DemocraticEconomicPlanning Debate" at the Workshop "Banks and #PostGrowth" from Center for Sustainable Economic and Corporate Policy (ZNWU). Thanks Janina Urban for inviting us!

Austerität als Wegbereiter des #Faschismus? Historisch betrachtet ging es nie um die Eindämmung von Inflation oder staatliche Haushaltsdisziplin, sondern wir sehen eine #Austeritätspolitik mit antidemokratischer Stoßrichtung, so Clara Mattei. 👇 zeitschrift-luxembur...

@thenation.com published my op-ed about the killing of my brother Chef Mahmoud www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Excited to share a few highlights from our expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning” (DEP) in Vienna last weekend! Over 2 days, we explored how democratic economic planning can reshape our economy. Here is a short summary of what we discussed 🧵👇(1/9) #DemocraticPlanning #DEP