@solveigdegen.bsky.social
PhD student at @ktbberlin.bsky.social | working on democratisation of energy and socialisation of finance | (she/her)
John O’Neill on Neurath’s critique of pseudorationalism in the socialist calculate debate
04.12.2025 22:00 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Great piece by @proufos.bsky.social on the historical trajection of central bank independence! 🏦
👇Read below to understand why we should not defend it as the base of economic stability and democracy
Check out Ralf’s new paper on steel socialisation: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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had a great time at the labour environmentalism conference today at @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
- learned a lot from my fellow panellists Ralf Hoffrogge and Jary Koch in our panel discussion on socialisation struggles in the coal, steel and chemical industries! ⛏️🏔️🏭👩🔬✊
Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
First @histmat.bsky.social conference – but definitely not the last!
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
My latest
“Cataclysm Capitalism” is a term that attempts to grapple with the dizzying speed and acceleration of today's fascist attacks on democracy and our shared environment
To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
In 2008 our financial institutions collapsed under their weight of their incompetence and avarice. Rather than sending the people responsible to jail we bailed them out with taxpayer money and made massive spending cuts to pay for it.
And we’ve NEVER recovered.
OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.
We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.
Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Statt damit die Zukunft zu gestalten, bedient sich die Bundesregierung am Klimafonds um Stromnetz und Klimastrafen zu finanzieren.
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Economic liberalism and fascism often present themselves as opposites..
Yet, beneath their apparent contradictions lies a shared foundation, argues @nataschastrobl.bsky.social in the latest f&l blog piece!
➡️Find out more following the link below
#fascism #flblog #liberalism #antifascisteconomics
In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...
26.08.2025 12:54 — 👍 50 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 6Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
Everyone talks about the Religious Right + white supremacy when it comes to fascism - but what about the billionaire-funded libertarian right quietly reshaping politics?
That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social !
📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...
Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)".
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
Die International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS) hat einen neuen Blog mit dem Titel "Fascism and Liberalism – Today and Yesterday" gestartet. Der erste Beitrag steht schon zum Lesen bereit. Wir wünschen einen guten Start!
Mehr Informationen gibt es hier: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/07/31/f...
The first F&L blog piece by Clara Mattei and Aditya Singh is out now!
„Just as Hitler advanced a militarized version of the austerity regime […] today’s European agenda of growing militarization at the expense of social welfare reveals a chillingly similar logic“ ▶️ see full text below
🚨Exciting News! 🚨 We just launched our new blog “Fascism and Liberalism - Yesterday and Today” which will be published weekly on Thursdays starting with a great piece by Clara Mattei and Aditya Singh next week!
Learn more here and stay tuned!
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/07/31/f...
I am speaking at a #KPÖ Vienna workshop on democratic economic planning on May 10th - Registration still open until Sunday!
@kpoe.bsky.social
For the first time since WWII an extreme right party is #1 in the German polls. Anti-fascist economic policy is urgently needed.
Instead the new coalition agenda entails:
- cut profit tax
- end 8 hr workday
- open tap for defense, austerity for the rest
- weaken social security
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Vor einer Woche fuhr ein Neonazi in #Mannheim in eine Menschenmenge und ermordete zwei Menschen. Viele mehr wurden verletzt. Das Interesse der herrschenden Politik geht inzwischen gegen Null. Das Sicherheitsgefühl von Menschen ist egal, sobald die Täter weiße deutsche Neonazis sind.
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It’s now official, in written words, the oligarchs want to exterminate the rest of us.
01.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇
10.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Musk making 2 unmistakable Nazi salutes back-to-back, having the ADL and so many others cover for him, while German police arrests students in Munich for discussing university ties with Israel, and Palestinians search their destroyed neighborhoods for the remains of their families. Welcome to 2025.
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