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For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.

I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.

jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...

8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by
@berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...

History and motivations How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Can’t take it with you I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "

Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!

politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49451/...

Blitzscaling for tyrants The lightning-fast path to tearing down due process

Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...

The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.

She cannot be freed soon enough.

Found it: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/In...

It was a wonderful tribute to to civic courage, human resilience and moral decency.

Gene Sharp spoke, alongside people who had taken part in civil resistance in their own countries—including participants from Tiananmen.

This reminded me of a conference I attended ages ago as a graduate-student assistant. I was embarrassingly clueless about the speakers, but it was possibly the most inspiring event I’d ever attended.

Opinion | What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

yarın!

Bluesky sansüründe son durum:

• 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi.
• 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
• 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı.
ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...

YouTube video by WIRED How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...

Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar.

With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social
We also discuss what may come next:

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

A bar chart titled 'Prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, 2021, 2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 100 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants for both years. Turkey stands out with the highest figures, exceeding 300 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in both 2021 and 2022, significantly above the EU average.

A bar chart titled 'Police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, average 2020-2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 350 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. Turkey stands out with one of the highest figures, exceeding 600 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, significantly above the EU average. O

Here are two data points to put their bravery in perspective:

YouTube video by +90 Neden eylemdesin? | Saraçhane'den sokak izlenimleri

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDI...

This classic paper by @timurkuran.bsky.social argues that political revolutions are inherently unpredictable: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end.

Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.

Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.

Resisting with style!

I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney

Turkey Resists By arresting İmamoğlu, Erdoğan banks on public apathy. He's getting the opposite.

open.substack.com/pub/kulturka...

YouTube video by SPianista Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)

Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...

Diary Week 1

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

In these difficult times, we find solace in the achievements of our partners in Malatya, Turkey, who performed their fifth 6-way liver exchange today 👏 Having performed 29 LE transplants in 2025 through the Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, they are on track to surpass their record of 122 in 2024 🥇