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Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

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Notes on The Devil & Daniel Webster: Horkheimer’s Letter to William Dieterle on the script for “All That Money Can Buy” (1941), on the results of an intensive intra-ISR discussion on the town & country dialectic & the responsibilities of anti-fascist film-making!

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NEW: Re Tejus analyzes social domination in Part II of their essay "Class and Rackets"
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And if you want a critical engagement with, inter alia, Ste. Croix, see our own Mac Parker's essay in Margin Notes 1!
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On the figure of Heinrich Regius, the pseudonymous author of Dämmerung, and how the standard dismissal of the text is a byproduct of the late Horkheimer’s consciously revisionist domestication of his own earlier work

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Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.

NEW ON CTWG: INTRODUCING RACKET THEORY

by J.E. Morain & yours truly to our collection of texts on 'racket theory.' This essay covers the history of the Frankfurt School's racket theory project as well as some of the core theoretical problems & themes

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Hotter today in Southern Spain than in Abu Dhabi. It's only just beginning but looking like we're cooked... Spain, on the climate frontier. But also the world as we knew it.

Howard Caygill · Gillian Rose, 1947-1995 (1996) NEWS Gillian Rose, 1947-1995 Gillian Rose died on the evening of 9 December 1995 after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. The hour of her death coincided with the closing moments of a confere...

Pafe's review cites various critical articles on Rose published in Radical Philosophy and elsewhere over the years.

Howard Caygill wrote the obituary on Rose for RP in 1996:

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RP2.18: New issue out now!

Sita Balani on culture wars
Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction'
Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags'
Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP
Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt

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What happens when humanitarian aid is militarised? - ABC Religion & Ethics The death of scores of Palestinians near aid distribution sites set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the foreseeable result of a system which was not established in accordance with humanitari...

“The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is exacerbating the death and desperation in Gaza. It must be dismantled and the siege lifted so that those with the expertise and capacity to feed Gaza’s starving people can return to work.” A new addendum to my article here: www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

Poster for the 4/26 meeting: The Polymorphous Psyche of Bourgeois Society: "Egoism and Freedom Movements" by Max Horkheimer

thanks for joining our discussion with J.E. Morain on the scope & limits of Wittfogel’s histomat geography of production! no meeting next week—join us 4/26 for Horkheimer’s (Frommian!) social psychology of revolutionaries & rebels with Esther!

looking forward to that!!!

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

Excellent to see an excerpt of @quinnslobodian.com’s Hayek’s Bastards featured at @newstatesman.com:

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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Translations of Horkheimer’s 22 fragments on the materialist critique of the metaphysics of capitalist society—written for Dämmerung (1934) but only published posthumously

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Experiments on a Worthless Body: An Interpretation of Part 4 of Marx’s Capital, Vol. I “Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation” – Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

New from Richard Hunsinger:

“This is the scientific character of historical materialism, the self-critical implementation of its tools that this revolutionary method adopts as its own in the synthesizing reconstruction of the revolutionary character of capitalist production that is realized…

Full text: China's Position on Some Issues Concerning China-US Economic and Trade Relations

Some great digs re. “limited competitiveness” of US products in China’s response to Trump’s new tariffs: “US rice can hardly compete with Southeast Asian rice in terms of quality, appearance, taste, and price.“ And Boeing’s planes fall out of the sky. english.scio.gov.cn/m/whitepaper...

Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil"

"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."

Free this man immediately.

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Israel has murdered 232 journalists and media workers since October 7, 2023.

Excited to host this tomorrow in Graz

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

Erich Fromm's Contribution to Critical Theory - Logos Journal Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1900, Erich Fromm completed a sociological dissertation with Alfred Weber at the University of Heidelberg in 1922 and then became acquainted with Sigmund Freud’s psychoana...

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Get ready for the Neue-Wittfogel Lektüre here he is in 1932-ish looking fresh as hell - we’ll be reading his “Geographical Materialism” (1929) & an original translation of an excerpt on method from the 80 page “Die natürlichen Ursachen der Wirtschaftsgeschichte” (30/32)!