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Hannah Proctor on how (despite the ubiquity of the experience of extreme political adversity on the left) there is a surprising lack of literature on the psychological and emotional consequences of political defeat:

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Great episode of @poltheoryother.bsky.social with @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social: 'The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat'. open.spotify.com/episode/3akn...

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"What you notice now, listening to the Specials, is the number of lyrics about the past and the future, and how their brief moment in the sun sometimes seems to foretell our own present darkness." - Ian Penman harpers.org/archive/2025...

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Since Munira Murza is back in the news: www.patreon.com/posts/strang...

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"If the second Trump administration is chaotic in presentation, parts of its agenda are nonetheless coherent. The new government will turbocharge the extractivist derisking of USAID via the DFC..." - @danielagabor.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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Above is what happened to AfD’s support after Musk zoomed in to their rally, below is what happened to the Left’s—if you’re wondering about his ability to play global puppet master.

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"The one thing the PRC and the Nationalists’ rump parliament in Taiwan continued to agree on even after 1949 was that China meant all of China at its widest imperial extension." newleftreview.org/issues/ii151... @newleftreview.bsky.social

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"The commodification of industrial labour has already turned them [China's peasants] into a reserve army of labour. The present commodification of rural land is finally turning them into a reserve army of consumers as well..." newleftreview.org/issues/ii151... @newleftreview.bsky.social

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"If the second Trump administration is chaotic in presentation, parts of its agenda are nonetheless coherent. The new government will turbocharge the extractivist derisking of USAID via the DFC..." - @danielagabor.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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"Poland’s politics frequently hinge on culture war issues ... but in almost every high street there’s an example of a socialist space that pretty much everyone uses and everyone likes." - Owen Hatherley tribunemag.co.uk/2025/02/soci... @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

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"This is the disaster of the the Starmer administration so far - preemptively absorbing the most simplistic account of conventional economics, so as to endlessly signal their conformity to what they imagine the lowest common denominator of conservative financial opinion to be..." - Adam Tooze

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I don't think I've heard the whole sorry affair expressed quite as simply, elegantly, and astutely as this

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Freedom from housework! And delicious pierogi

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Ouch

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"Poland’s politics frequently hinge on culture war issues ... but in almost every high street there’s an example of a socialist space that pretty much everyone uses and everyone likes." - Owen Hatherley tribunemag.co.uk/2025/02/soci... @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

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Normal conversation between two real people.

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This is such a great podcast

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"they're answering to something closer to the Daily Mail than to Wall Street." - @adamtooze.bsky.social on the Starmer administration's attachment to conventional economics:

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"This is the disaster of the the Starmer administration so far - preemptively absorbing the most simplistic account of conventional economics, so as to endlessly signal their conformity to what they imagine the lowest common denominator of conservative financial opinion to be..." - Adam Tooze

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📻 Weekend listening 📻- Adam Tooze responds to PTO listener questions. We talked about Donald Trump's Gaza "plan", the US tech sector's rapprochement with the Trump administration, and Elon Musk's war on the the administrative state: www.patreon.com/posts/adam-t...

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Tooze is great.

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"The kind of broad band of resistance that ranged from anarchists to very bourgeois readers of the NYT in 2016-17 is just no longer plausible... And this obviously is one of the legacies of the Biden administration [and their policies on Gaza and on migration]" - @adamtooze.bsky.social

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“A January 6th that’s actually working - not on the symbolic level, not like this risible stuff they were doing in Congress - but actually the evisceration of a globally relevant organization with huge impact across the entire world.” - @adam_tooze on the dismantling of USAid:

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"[One option is that] this is really about signalling how far Washington is willing to go towards the most radical end of the settler ideology." - @adamtooze.bsky.social on Trump's Gaza announcement:

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📢 NEW PTO EXTRA 📢 @adamtooze.bsky.social responds to PTO listener questions. We talked about Donald Trump's Gaza "plan", the US tech sector's rapprochement with the Trump administration, and Elon Musk's war on the the administrative state: www.patreon.com/posts/adam-t...

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1/2 On February 5th @adamtooze.bsky.social will be answering PTO supporter questions. If you're a patron please send your question to [email protected] with "Adam Tooze questions" in the subject header, or comment below the line here: www.patreon.com/posts/120872...

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A British Jewish writer with a book out on how antisemitism became such a battleground issue, I was not invited to speak at Jewish Book Week. A wider point here (fortunately, I'm invited to speak at many other book events) about the political gatekeeping of this festival

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1/2 On February 5th @adamtooze.bsky.social will be answering PTO supporter questions. If you're a patron please send your question to [email protected] with "Adam Tooze questions" in the subject header, or comment below the line here: www.patreon.com/posts/120872...

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"As fire management expert Stephen J Pyne has been arguing for decades, suppression is bad management. It derives from an inappropriate importation by colonists of European fire practices, and it makes wildfires worse." - @leninology.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

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"As fire management expert Stephen J Pyne has been arguing for decades, suppression is bad management. It derives from an inappropriate importation by colonists of European fire practices, and it makes wildfires worse." - @leninology.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

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📢 NEW PTO EXTRA! 📢 - Juliet Jacques puts PTO supporter questions to @leninology.bsky.social. Topics covered include the Gaza ceasefire, bible study in American schools, and what the left might learn from the successes of the Morena government in Mexico: www.patreon.com/posts/120667...

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No doubt an accidental appearance made in a moment of enthusiasm

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📢 NEW PTO EXTRA! 📢 - Juliet Jacques puts PTO supporter questions to @leninology.bsky.social. Topics covered include the Gaza ceasefire, bible study in American schools, and what the left might learn from the successes of the Morena government in Mexico: www.patreon.com/posts/120667...

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I discussed Labour’s economic plans with @poltheoryother.bsky.social (a couple of days before the sudden panic surrounding gilts) www.patreon.com/posts/119719...

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NEW – US emissions ‘unchanged’ in 2024 despite coal power at lowest level since 1967 | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️

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Good discussion here, especially on Luigi Mangione as ‘social bandit’, a phenomenon in societies lacking in other meaningful or effective forms of protest (in other words, a manifestation of general hopelessness)

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Seymour explains Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm's concept of the "social bandit" while answering question about public reaction to Luigi Mangione. I was reminded of Netflix show about Italian anarchist Lucio Urtubia, A Man of Action, who robbed banks to redistribute & made counterfeit currency.

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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 Richard Seymour responds to listeners’ questions on the fall of Assad, the public reaction to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and Richard picks his cultural highlights of 2024: www.patreon.com/posts/richar...

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