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Freshers' week offer: 20% off student subscriptions until the end of September. newleftreview.org/s/160_stud…
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¿Un dominio monetario respaldado, en última instancia, por la fuerza militar?
Costas Lapavitsas (@C_Lapavitsas): El nuevo imperialismo del dolar
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Today is the second anniversary of Fredric Jameson’s death. I found myself rereading this piece recently and thinking once again about why his work casts such a long shadow over revolutionary scholarship. One of the lessons Jameson took from utopia—and understood more deeply++
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Wrote about Mitchell Abidor's excellent new biography of Victor Serge for @NewLeftReview's Sidecar.
Morten Høi Jensen (@MortenHoiJensen) on Victor Serge:
‘Serge’s mind was certainly in constant motion – revolutionary in both senses – and he never lingered long enough for dogma to harden.’
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“Look beyond the spectacle and this is not an investment plan. It is a PR plan.”
Frédéric Lordon on the economics of AI:
‘We are witnessing the great reversal unfolding in real time…’
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Good piece on some of the irrational exuberance now enveloping the hyperscalers.
Frédéric Lordon on the economics of AI:
‘We are witnessing the great reversal unfolding in real time…’
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Really good and terrifying.
Frédéric Lordon on the economics of AI:
‘We are witnessing the great reversal unfolding in real time…’
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Morten Høi Jensen (@MortenHoiJensen) on Victor Serge:
‘Serge’s mind was certainly in constant motion – revolutionary in both senses – and he never lingered long enough for dogma to harden.’
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🖤 I will always adore him. And yes, like many of us, he was used by Cold Warriors for their military-industrial complex purposes. Plus que ca change.
For @NewLeftReview's Sidecar, I wrote about Victor Serge:
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RT @lilyslynch: I wrote about the Swedish election for @newleftreview sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
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Over-accumulating AI. The financial side:
"In the absence of revenue and profits, everything else is experiencing take-off. (...) It embodies the promise that the future will not merely be brighter, but increasingly brighter. " newleftreview.org/sidecar/po… @NewLeftReview
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For @NewLeftReview's Sidecar, I wrote about Victor Serge:
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Postliberalism through neoliberalism
Everything you wanted to know abt the return of economic nationalism but were afraid to ask, w appearances by @BrankoMilan, Marvin Suesse, Jamie Merchant a k a @pathtopraxis, @leninology, Wolfgang Streeck, @IliasAlami & @triofrancos, & a cameo by @oikeios newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…
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Frédéric Lordon on the economics of AI:
‘We are witnessing the great reversal unfolding in real time…’
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Lily Lynch (@lilyslynch) on elections in Sweden:
‘Despite the apparent success of the centre-left opposition she helms, Sunday’s vote was really a victory for the right.’
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Com podem disputar l'hegemonia cultural?
💬 Obrim la tarda amb Betania Núñez, Rob Lucas, Yazid Arifi, Ernesto Picco, Martín Mosquera i Julio Martínez-Cava
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In NLR 160: Carlo Ginzburg & Perry Anderson, Correspondence.
Intellectual exchanges from 1999–2007, covering war, politics, religion, history and philology.
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Wolfgang Streeck in Sidecar on the current political-economic crisis and associated conflicts in Germany: newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
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all this discourse is extremely stupid when you can simply go and read Ruskola’s excellent piece in New Left Review instead of assuming things
I doubt that any of these books will be worth reading given the framing of the tweet itself.
In the West, works that “critique” China frequently push this narrative about “state socialism” with shallow invocations about Marx and Lenin — who did not use that term bc the trick is
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