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Hope people are following: Merz wants to reform the constitutional limit on debt before AfD enter parliament because they—founded by ordoliberal economists—are austerity hawks. Far-right neoliberalism exists (see also Freedom Party next door in Austria) on.ft.com/4gUo0Pv

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bluesky update: some thoughts on fressoz's new book, which offers a thesis i have identified with for a long time now. hearing someone else say it provides a generative opportunity for critique/self-critique phases.substack.com/p/symbiosis-...

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Frisch aus der Druckerei: die neue PROKLA 218: Surplus Society – »Überflüssige« im Gegenwartskapitalismus www.bertz-fischer.de/prokla218 @bertz-fischer.bsky.social

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“The political question at the heart of decarbonisation then is: what architecture of investment and control can deliver this unprecedented implosion?” @mathewlawrence.bsky.social on why Big Oil cannot deliver the transition. 🔗⬇️ www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

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Denialism, in all its forms, has long been a favorite of American Republicans (Excerpt from 'Merchants of Doubt' (2010), by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway)

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Before reading another comment on how the AfD is stronger in former DDR, please, please, keep in mind that "more people vote for the AfD in West Germany" and that "depopulated spaces don't vote". Please.

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"Not the End of the World"

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Another symptom of German decline : postal voting for Germans living abroad seems to be totally dysfunctional www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

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"The longue durée is an insistent presence in NLR’s collective editorial vision. It hints at the possibility that the defeat of the left is only ever localised and provisional" Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... www.versobooks.com/products/270...

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it. www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

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Returning to this foundational classic of ecological economics from 1950 where Marx's agronomic framing of the ecological contradiction that afflicts the "entire spirit of capitalist production" was ungrounded for the first time.

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What are the best takes on Trump's "energy emergency" politics?

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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz answered in the LRB to @adamtooze.bsky.social's review of his latest book "More and More and More", especially focussing on China:

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Hard to imagine a better reminder of the extraordinary riches still available in fossil fuels than the fact that BP is under attack from shareholders for generating annual profits of "only" $9bn

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what a legend

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The only institutions to refuse access to Musk are the US Labour Department and Berghain in Berlin.

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Voici l'affiche de la 1re conférence Historical Materialism Paris qui aura lieu du 26 au 28 juin prochain à l'université Paris-Dauphine. Plus d'informations ici, notamment l'appel : hmparis.org Il vous reste 10 jours pour déposer votre (ou vos) propositions ici : hmparis2025.sciencesconf.org

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Didn't know A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall was based on Lord Randall! The movie is great. Dylan going electric at Newport ’65 feels like a cultural marker of post-war Fordism—just as the decline of guitar-driven music echoes neoliberal capitalism

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Today:

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@quinnslobodian.com & Michel Feher ( @michelfeher.bsky.social ) & @estelledelaine.bsky.social at École Normale Supérieure in Paris

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new LRB: @brettchristophers.bsky.social on Malm & Carton's Overshoot "Stranded assets – their absolute necessity, and their apparent impossibility – are at the centre of the story." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Penguin made a spooky cover

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ig.ft.com/climate-game/ Funny to see that the Financial Times produced a policy maker version of Half Earth Socialism's planning game (play.half.earth)

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Laura Conti, "What is Ecology? Capital, Labor, and Environment", Maspero, 1978. She was a scientist and a member of the Italian Communist Party. Her work represents one of the early attempts to merge political ecology with Marxist theory and practice.

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This is a fantastic piece on the "reactionary decarbonization" that is carbon capture and storage, by the always-brilliant Mike Levien. Must read.

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"Unlike the money in the loans office, the IRA’s tax credits — the main form of subsidy in the legislation — are unlikely to be affected. The credits have been a primary driver of investment, with manufacturers committing more than $130bn since the law passed, according to FT analysis."

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@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Trump & energy : 'In other places, what stands out about Trump’s policies is their incoherence — and how few of his constituencies they will satisfy. Late on Monday, Trump suggested that he might impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico as soon as February 1. 1/

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Watching Trump 2.0’s “drill baby drill” tragedy/farce while sitting in the ER with a broken hand: Happy 2025, welcome to the age of disaster nationalism.

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Kohei Saito (@koheisaito.bsky.social) and Matt Huber (@matthuber.bsky.social) about growth, natural limits, technology and progress. Find the full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

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Call me sour, but EVERY mention of this "victory" should acknowledge that it's funded entirely by the profits of ongoing fossil-fuel production. Since the IEA said "no more new oil and gas fields if we are to hit net zero by 2050" in 2021, Norway has issued >150 new production licenses.

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This piece by @kunktation.bsky.social is extraordinary: "Proponents of growth capitalism and degrowth communism rightly appear as antagonists, but they converge on a similar error. 1/

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"The heart of ecology, after all, is interdependence of specific sites and problems and the need to situate local responses in regional, national and international contexts, that is, to sublate the local and the central into new democratic socioeconomic and political forms."

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In the city of Karlsruhe it seems like AfD members put these "deportation tickets" in the mailboxes of people with migration background. Among other things we read "only remigration can save Germany". The ominous date on the ticket corresponds to the election day, February 23d 2025.

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