some personal news: I completed my master and I guess I can call myself an "economist" now (albeit reluctantly). my thesis is a historical case study on the foreign debt problems of socialist states in eastern europe. big thanks to my supervisors and everyone else who supported me on that journey!

Der Historiker Fritz Bartel bricht mit dem gängigen Narrativ über das Ende des Kalten Krieges: Der Kapitalismus triumphierte, weil er sein Wohlstandsversprechen an die Bevölkerung brechen konnte – der Sozialismus zerbrach daran.

Paula Thiede revolutionierte den gewerkschaftlichen Kampf für bessere Löhne und Vereinbarkeit von Sorge- und Lohnarbeit.

Kleine Randnotiz: #Lindner hat in seinem Wahlkreis weniger Erststimmen erhalten als die FDP Zweitstimmen. Lindner: 4,9 Prozent FDP: 5,6 Prozent www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bund...

wait the dadaists predicted it a century ago?

I'm still utterly fascinated by gillian rose's point that marx never went hegelian but essentially stopped at the "fichtean station between kant and hegel"

this country is unreal

this is getting stranger than fiction www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the muskrats & broligarchs

people that prosecute war criminals now get the sactions and not the war criminals... www.ft.com/content/59a0...

the muskrats & broligarchs

leute die jetzt noch auf den wahl-o-mat angewiesen sind für ihre wahlentscheidung sind mir genauso mysteriös wie die paar tausend undecided voters in pennsylvania

hegel was an ecofeminist change my mind

I had to gasp audibly at the cinema when I overheard someone is using chatgpt to “explain” the david lynch ending

a 25 y/o has write access to the government payment system that in totality amounts to more than a fifth of the US economy www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

alarming piece by @nathantankus.bsky.social on musk's payment system coup www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...

sorry marxologists but you win the title for the most idealist science

kleiner reminder, dass es nicht der erste von der afd explizit mitgetragene antrag war

nach der logik hätte hitler damals verhindert werden können, wenn die anderen parteien noch mehr die "judenfrage" adressiert hätten. HOLOCAUST – sonst machen es die falschen.

konservative tagesschau-kommentare, zentralrat der juden und wagenknecht sind sich einig: wenn konservative gemeinsame sache mit faschisten machen, sind nicht die konservativen oder faschos schuld, sondern die progressiven kräfte, die ihnen "das feld überlassen"

eclectic interview on china and the end of history www.cco-uk.com/a-conscious-...

„I have initiated a policy debate in Germany based on your ideas. I said ‚mehr Musk wagen’. Please, Elon, please talk to me. I can explain you zee FDP. Please Elon, please.“ 🙏

Cowards www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

offloading risky loans via securitisation to free up capital in order to make more risky loans - that sounds familiar... www.ft.com/content/9c83...

Trump und Merz wollen eine neue neoliberale Ära beginnen. Wir gründen das Wirtschaftsmagazin »Surplus«, das die Interessen der großen Mehrheit ins Zentrum rückt, nicht die der Reichsten. Jetzt abonnieren 👉 surplusmagazin.de

franprix cashier develops class consciousness and doesn't scan my tomatoes

you read a rather niche economics book from 1987 and find that the author dedicated the book to her friend (?) alexander van der bellen, who was an economist back then and now happens to be the president of austria

the multipolar moment when the tooze interview that everyone talks about now already came out months ago in mandarin

Ulf Poschardt: ich will einen mündigen, unerschrockenen, individuellen Liberalismus Der mündige, unerschrockene, individuelle Liberalismus:

"not bad for an old 'idealist'"

the left should stop playing the "woke is broke" blame game and listen to judith butler english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

the mental health ramifications of bullshit jobs

crazy moments in german sports/politics: threatened by bankruptcy in the 1980s, north rhine-westphalian ice hockey club iserlohn seals a sponsorship deal with libyan ruler gaddafi. in return, the club advertises his "green book" on its jersey

curious that trump opposes the tiktok ban. also his animosity towards zuckerberg

fascinating piece by @proufos.bsky.social on central bankers' role during the nazi regime (not only Schacht but also BoE governor Norman) and how evident sympathies for the nazis were guised under "central bank indepedence" www.crisesnotes.com/the-first-ca...

nothing to hide this year

let's not forget that the largest institutional user of petroleum and therefore the biggest single emitter of greenhouse gases is... the US department of defense!

I think I finally found my podcast to get my french listening where I want it to be. great history podcast including many post-colonial & feminist perspectives open.spotify.com/show/57zBA3h...

hello bluesky, we're so back

we're so back

most gorgeous electronic album of the year open.spotify.com/album/6zt8N5...

no single state is so great as that its flag belongs on your social media

went to a halloween party dressed as the 2024 european parliament (very scary)

kick-off panel on conflict inflation at the #27FMM Conference

h/t @gatostruck.bsky.social

the whole “boomer” discourse shoots so far from the target, I don’t get why we’re using it. boomers brought us ‘68 counterculture, environmentalism and sexual liberation. the bigger culprit is gen X, which is void of political visions, became adults during 80-90s consumerism and probably owns an SUV

Midas, Transmuting All into Paper (1797) A political cartoon about the Bank of England suspending the convertability of bank notes into gold, which heavily triggered the goldbugs of that time