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Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.

Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.

BREAKING NEWS ๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿšจ

We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).

The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

10.10.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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In a sense, neoliberalism with its invention of the entrepreneurial self realised Fourier's utopia of work โ€“ but as a nightmare. Labour mobility, but without play.

10.10.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fredric Jameson and the Adventure of French Theory After 1945, France produced an extraordinary wave of social theorists whose influence is still felt today. In his final work, Fredric Jameson discussed the excitement of watching this wave rise and fall and the conditions that made it possible.

Fredric Jameson: The evolution of capitalism spurred the growth of French theory in the 1940s and its gradual exhaustion in the neoliberal period.

08.10.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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an ill-starred letter to the readers of the future

Recommended: the new Substack of Hannah van Binsbergen,
@hannahvanbins.bsky.social, poet and former editor-in-chief of Jacobin NL. For inspiring reflections on literature and left-wing politics.

06.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A wooden sculpture of a man in religious attire clinging to and biting a pillar, part of the choir screen in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem.

A wooden sculpture of a man in religious attire clinging to and biting a pillar, part of the choir screen in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem.

The pillar-biter

(On the far right of the choir screen of the St. Bavo church in Haarlem, Netherlands)

05.10.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Thesis (Danish Marxism) - Antithesis (Self-Abolition) - Synthesis (Dutch Marxism)

*ลฝiลพek voice* andsoonandsoon

03.10.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Die Linke Finds Its Voice on Palestine For two years, Germanyโ€™s socialist party Die Linke tried to skirt around its divisions over Gaza. Joining last Saturdayโ€™s massive demonstration in Berlin, its leaders finally showed the party can be a clear voice against the genocide.

For two years, Germanyโ€™s socialist party Die Linke tried to skirt around its divisions over Gaza.

Joining last Saturdayโ€™s massive demonstration in Berlin, its leaders finally showed the party can be a clear voice against the genocide.

02.10.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ยท I do not have to be you: Audre Lordeโ€™s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

Sharp reflections on the the life, work, and politics of Audre Lord by @keeanga.bsky.social. The essay presents that legacy with clear eyes, contradictions and all.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

02.10.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Heute erscheint mein Buch zur "Politischen Theorie nach Machiavelli" bei Matthes&Seitz Berlin! Es zeigt Machiavelli als Republikaner sowie als frรผhen Radikaldemokraten und Klassentheoretiker, es folgt Spuren bei Gramsci, Althusser, Pocock, Lefort, Skinner, Abensour, McCormick.

02.10.2025 09:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Helmer Stoel has just translated Michael Heinrich's Introduction into Capital into Dutch. To appear this winter. I hear Dutch Marxism is going to be the next big thing.

02.10.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review โ€“ his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US The 88-year-oldโ€™s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress

'The writer knows whatโ€™s to come and where this roll of foul history will eventually lead: towards a clownish world order epitomised by men such as Elon Musk.'

02.10.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then again you have Dutch anti-intellectualism. As a nineteenth-century Dutch worker reacted, when he heard about Capital, Vol. 1: 'I don't need to read a big book to learn what I know from experience.'

02.10.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We've some good Pannekoek recipes.

02.10.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Verschijnt deze winter!

Een Inleiding in Het Kapitaal van Karl Marx
door Michael Heinrich

Nog altijd de beste korte inleiding in Het Kapitaal.

uitgeverijgrondwerk.nl/product/een-...

02.10.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Mijn column in De Groene van deze week, over de dominante doorwerking van Amerikaans nieuws in Nederland en de vreemde neiging om dat land als een soort achtertuin te zien.

30.09.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Schreef een stukje met @helmerstoel.bsky.social en maakte er een volgens Eelco Heinen apolitiek beeld bij. Gelieve dit dus niet verder te politiseren.

23.09.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wat is een VVD die tegen antifascisme is? | Jacobin Door Antifa als terroristische organisatie te bestempelen en het extreemrechtse geweld van afgelopen weekend als 'niet politiek' af te doen tekent de VVD zich in, in een radicaalrechts project. Door d...

Door Antifa als terroristische organisatie te bestempelen en het extreemrechtse geweld van afgelopen weekend als 'niet politiek' af te doen, schrijft de VVD zich in een radicaalrechts project in. De huidige verhoudingen in de Tweede Kamer maken dat de partij heel Nederland daarin meesleurt.

23.09.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson What is happening to Judith Butler โ€“ a Jewish intellectual โ€“ in the name of fighting โ€˜antisemitismโ€™ is outrageous

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

22.09.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 183    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Low-angle green-tinged image of a harbour in 1929. In the background there are industrial chimneys. In the centre there is a small steamship, with clouds of steam trailing behind it. In the foreground, the sun's reflection on the wet, rocky shore.

Low-angle green-tinged image of a harbour in 1929. In the background there are industrial chimneys. In the centre there is a small steamship, with clouds of steam trailing behind it. In the foreground, the sun's reflection on the wet, rocky shore.

Julia Hertรคg reflects in NLR 154 on three generations of Arbeiterfilme, from the radical expressionism of the Weimar era and 1960s militancy to the damning portrayals of post-reunification Germany presented by contemporary filmmakers.

newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

05.09.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Domestic terrorism'.

22.09.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Het vrije woord voorbij in de Verenigde Staten | Jacobin Sinds de moord op Charlie Kirk is het debat over de vrijheid van meningsuiting weer flink opgelaaid. Rechtsconservatieven willen ons doen geloven dat ze slachtoffer zijn van censuur. In werkelijkheid ...

In de Verenigde Staten, kortom, voert de regering-Trump nu uit waar rechtsconservatieven zelf meenden het slachtoffer van te zijn.
jacobin.nl/het-vrije-wo...

20.09.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Het waren geen fascistische relschoppers, maar โ€˜klassiek liberalenโ€™ die hun zorgen over immigratie- en asielbeleid op wat onconventionele wijze uitten.

21.09.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 167    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Adorno goes to a party at Ernst Simmelโ€™s w all the W Coast psychoanalystsโ€”all fun & games until a palm reader starts speaking, Adorno & Otto Fenichel denounce it as fascoid, Simmel says calm down, Adorno writes Horkheimer saying we have to sever all professional ties with Simmel (they do not lol)

25.07.2025 00:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nieuwe editie van jacobin NL โ€˜vrijheidโ€™

Nieuwe editie van jacobin NL โ€˜vrijheidโ€™

Heel fijn om de nieuwe editie van @jacobinnl.bsky.social in handen te hebben โ€” inclusief mijn artikel over abolitie en straf!
Nu te lezen

22.07.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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It's publication day! "Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire: From the Paris Commune to the Present" is now available.

"An essential text for anyone interested in the urgent task of nurturing new forms of democracy that can help us build a liberated future." - Debbie Bookchin

shorturl.at/9eTBx

22.07.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
The 
@LemkinInstitute
 is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. 

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. 

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. 

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wowโ€”the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summitsโ€ฆIF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

21.07.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3700    ๐Ÿ” 2099    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

Just a reminder that nothing is easier than condemning events (long) after the fact. With nothing at stake, moral concern comes cheap. We can expect people in high places claiming in the future to have done 'all that was possible, given the circumstances'.

04.05.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ยปDie israelischen Hilfecenter in Gaza sind Schlachtfelderยซ Um UN-Hilfsorganisationen zu umgehen, wurde die US-finanzierte Privatstiftung GHF gegrรผndet. Sie soll humanitรคre Gรผter in den Gazastreifen liefern. Doch immer wieder sterben Menschen an den Ausgabestellen. Hier geht es nicht um Hilfe, sondern um deren Instrumentalisierung.

Um UN-Hilfsorganisationen zu umgehen, wurde die US-finanzierte Privatstiftung GHF gegrรผndet. Sie soll humanitรคre Gรผter in den Gazastreifen liefern. Doch immer wieder sterben Menschen an den Ausgabestellen. Hier geht es nicht um Hilfe, sondern um deren Instrumentalisierung.

21.07.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ja, precies. Al vind ik het moeilijk om het serieus te nemen. Boudry is een 'Verlichtingsfundamentalist'. Een karikatuur van het vooruitgangsgeloof van de Verlichting is vooral een stok om linkse 'doemdenkers' en de 'irrationele' Islam mee te slaan. Verder interesseert de Verlichting hem niet zo.

21.07.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinie | Zijn we vergeten om van een betere toekomst te dromen? Cultuur: Onze cultuur heeft het geloof dat wetenschap en techniek ons vooruitgang brengen achter zich gelaten, schrijft Maarten Boudry. Kunst becommentariรซert nu vooral de kwalen van kapitalisme en te...

Iets over hoe vooruitgangsoptimisme vroeger beter was.

21.07.2025 09:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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