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“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” Anna Freud

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In Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser delivers a fierce and eloquent diagnosis of our present: a world in crisis not because capitalism is broken, but because it’s working exactly as designed — by devouring everything that sustains life.

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Antonio Gramsci’nin kamusal bir söylev niteliği taşıyan ünlü metni “Kayıtsızlar”ı çevirmiştim, bu vesileyle ilgili herkesle tekrar paylaşayım. Tamamı için PDF Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1PmXg...

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“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.” Antonio Gramsci

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Edward W. Said, drawing on Theodor W. Adorno, reveals an existential paradox: to feel exiled in one’s own land, within one’s own identity, language, and history.

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“The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.” (p. 45) Hannah Arendt

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We are one of the regions where systematic plunder is experienced in its most entrenched and pervasive form—that’s why.

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Book Recommendation: George Rudé’s The French Revolution offers a social historian’s lens on 1789, centering the masses—not monarchs—in the drama of revolution. Clear, grounded, and sharply focused on class dynamics.

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Levent Dölek was arrested for standing with his students. This is repression, not justice. Free Levent Dölek now! #LeventDölekSerbestBırakılsın

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Elif Shafak suddenly acting like she’s shocked by youth protests is peak performative hypocrisy. You were cheering from the sidelines when the groundwork for this mess was laid.

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From anti-Trump rallies in the U.S. to protests in Türkiye and anti-Netanyahu demonstrations in Israel, Pikachu has emerged as an unlikely icon of global resistance.

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Perry Anderson’s “The New Old World” is a comprehensive analysis of the European Union’s evolution, its foundational nations, and the challenges of its expansion.

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“Bazen işçiler zafer kazanırlar, ama yalnızca bir zaman için. Onların kavgalarının gerçek meyvesi bu dolaysız sonuçta değil, işçilerin giderek genişle­yen birliğinde yatar.” Karl Marx

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This cover reeks of colonial anxiety and Orientalist panic—depicting Turkish people as teetering on the edge of chaos as rendering local dissent faceless and weak. It says more about Western fantasies than the realities of resistance. Utterly shallow.

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Rather than a natural outgrowth of trade across feudal Europe, capitalism emerged under highly specific conditions—most notably in England. In this now-classic text, Wood offers a clear historical-materialist account of how social property relations gave rise to a distinct economic system.

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Recommendation: Fascism and Dictatorship by Nicos Poulantzas offers a Marxist analysis of fascism, criticizing the orthodox interpretations of the Third International. He argues that fascism is not a simple reaction to crisis, but a specific form of capitalist state response to class struggle.

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Elon, you turned us into captive consumers. You shut down our friends’ accounts and called it freedom, but all you gave us was censorship in Türkiye, so pulled off some next-level hypocritical bullshit. And with all my heart, I hate you. Thanks for nothing.

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Boyun eğmiyoruz, itaat etmiyoruz, direniyoruz!

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“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

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Harvey’s diagram illustrates how capitalism reproduces itself by extracting value from labor, nature, and desire — while also putting the very foundations of life and society at risk. @davidharvey.org

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“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.” E.P. Thompson

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Had some disagreements before with leftist/oppo friends for various reasons. Opening this account as a clean slate — leaving misunderstandings and old grudges behind. Hoping for more international, less toxic, non-dogmatic comradeship here with stronger, clearer resistance to hegemonic politics.

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My latest article is “Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers” in which I try to explore how attachments to a hopeful future can paradoxically resonate with different modalities of powers—revealing not a smooth continuum, but a fractured ecology of cruel optimism. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SHDIP...

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My article “Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to an Infra-State of Exception” was out in Subjectivity (Springer). It introduces the concept of infra-state of exception to critically analyze how scientific authorities reshaped public health governance in Türkiye. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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