
Fascinated as well as irritated by politics. M.A. Political Science. Affiliated with @BSWbund. https://nitter.gq/t.co/sMvAuDMBnK
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Ich hatte mir kürzlich die Rede von Marco Rubio in Athen genauer angeschaut, mit seiner früheren auf der MSK verglichen, und einige Gedanken dazu aufgeschrieben. Für mich klingt die Rede nach einem kollektiven Kampfaufruf.
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1/4 Reading Marx's original works, including Capital, and the many companions and commentaries on them is useful. But for how long should we remain at this stage? We must move beyond merely interpreting and explaining what Marx said in this and that book.
"For many, Morgenthau’s contributions begin and end with his identification of power as the key determinant of state behavior. But this reading misses one of his core observations: that even if humans tend to be power-maximizing creatures, they are also moral beings who seek to limit their own power. Morgenthau’s writings reveal a dialectic between power and morality—two seemingly incompatible concepts that he spent his life attempting to reconcile. Far from romanticizing power, Morgenthau saw the need to tame it."
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"The post-Keynesians have read Keynes thoroughly; Modern Monetary Theory draws on Keynes, Minsky, Wynne Godley, and Abba Lerner; and evolutionary economics builds on Veblen and Commons. Moreover, there is also Marxism and its offshoots—an entire category now airbrushed from history—as well as feminist, ecological, and other branches."
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Ein lesenswertes Interview mit Rainer Rothfuß in dem er auch einen, aus meiner Sicht, wichtigen Punkt in Bezug auf das BSW anspricht.
„Was die fallenden Umfragewerte des BSW angeht, glaube ich, dass die Partei mehr Mut aufbringen sollte, Prügel einzustecken. Das würde sie attraktiver machen. Das BSW ist immer ein Stück weit vor der Wucht zurückgeschreckt, mit der man getroffen wird, wenn man die etablierten Glaubensgrundsätze im politischen und medialen Mainstream kritisiert.
Sahra Wagenknecht hat zum Beispiel im Fernsehen fast immer von der „Annexion der Krim“ gesprochen. Das ist der falsche Begriff. Es gab auf der Krim ein Referendum. Das einzige Verfassungswidrige daran war nicht das Referendum selbst, denn dazu hatte die autonome Republik Krim das Recht. Das Problem war, dass auf der Krim über eine Abspaltung von der Ukraine und einen Anschluss an Russland abgestimmt wurde. Das war laut der ukrainischen Verfassung nicht erlaubt. Doch zuvor hatte man bereits den ukrainischen Präsidenten Wiktor Janukowitsch ohne die erforderliche Drei-Viertel-Mehrheit im Parlament abgesetzt. Auch das war verfassungswidrig. Wenn man dem Mainstream immer wieder kleine Häppchen hinwirft, wie beispielsweise mit dem Begriff „Annexion“, nur um akzeptiert zu werden, dann wird man trotzdem vom Mainstream gehasst, weil man zu kritisch ist. Und zugleich wird man von den Verzweifelten, die aufgrund der sich verschlechternden wirtschaftlichen Lage immer mehr werden, nicht als Hoffnung gesehen, wenn man keine klare Kante zeigt.“
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NLR 161 is out now.
Featuring Jacob Collins on economic nationalism; Sophia Goodfriend on Israeli politics; John Dunn and Wolfgang Streeck on democracy; Emilie Bickerton on Tarkovsky; and the second part of Carlo Ginzburg’s correspondence with Perry Anderson, plus book reviews…
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"In der Volkswirtschaftslehre hat eine intellektuelle Verengung stattgefunden, die es so in keiner anderen Sozialwissenschaft gibt: Zulässig ist nur noch ein Paradigma, das Märkte idealisiert." @IsabellaMWeber @derStandardat derstandard.at/story/3000000…
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"Statecraft in Britain and Europe today resembles a bunch of 10-year-olds squabbling in the schoolyard."
My latest in @RStatecraft about hysterical Westminster plans to press-gang ordinary Brits into military service to fight the dastardly Russians.
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I did a one-hour interview with Glenn Diesen about my new book "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine."
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Immer interessant, den Ausführungen von @IMVErlangen zu folgen. Ebenso wie Herr Baab würde auch ich die Lektüre ihres lehrreichen und gut geschriebenen Lehrbuchs "Medienanalyse" empfehlen, aus dem ich schon einige wichtige Einsichten erlangen konnte.
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"This situation is disgraceful and fundamentally at odds with the core liberal values that the West purports to cherish and uphold."
Such an important point. In several regards, it doesn't make sense to describe contemporary Western behavior as liberal. It simply isn't.
This was a really interesting read by @KitKlarenberg. German elites have indeed been quite successful in obscuring their interest driven policies, especially from the German public. People from the outside very often have a much better understanding.
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🇵🇱 Speaking of the Applebaums...
Back in February, Tusk posted this photo of himself reading "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World," with the caption: "In the time of strategic uncertainty, it's worth knowing who we're dealing with."
The author is Anne Applebaum, a Jewish-American journalist at The Atlantic, Pulitzer winner, and wife of Tusk's Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. So the Prime Minister promoted a book by his own Foreign Minister's wife, about the dangers of leaders who grab institutions by force.
Nine months later, his government sent riot police to the Constitutional Court.
Applebaum isn't just a journalist. She's a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins, where she runs a program on "disinformation," a former senior fellow at the Washington think tank CEPA, where she led a project on "countering Russian disinformation" in Eastern Europe, and has sat on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, the US government-funded body that bankrolls NGOs and media abroad. In "Autocracy, Inc." she lumps Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and others into one global network of "dictators," a worldview where anyone outside the Western camp is an enemy and every domestic critic is a potential foreign agent. Sound familiar? It's the same logic Tusk used last night to blame the Constitutional Court crisis on "Russian bots."
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George Beebe, the former Director for Russia Analysis at the CIA, argues that a Ukraine peace agreement requires a new European security architecture (ending NATO expansionism)
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David Swanson reviewed my new book for World Without War:
In "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine," Stephen Kinzer gives us deeper understanding of roots and motivations, establishing beyond any possible dispute that the U.S. government...
It's quite unfortunate that the majority of elites within the West is either unaware of, or ignorant toward, this kind of understanding of Western development.
Imo, there's a lot of truth to it. It would be a far better, and most importantly, civilized, strategy for the West to finally come to terms with it instead of struggling against its consequences.
There is a grim satisfaction in watching these so-called "democracies" desperately struggle to stay relevant.
Ever since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed 'The End of History', the Western democracies have been intoxicated by their own perceived triumph.
They grew arrogant, convinced that liberal democracy was the inevitable destination of human civilisation and that the rest of the world would eventually fall in line and aspire to become just like them.
What a spectacular illusion.
Today, that self-proclaimed model of political superiority is increasingly exposed to its own contradictions, failures, and limitations.
The arrogance of believing they had reached the pinnacle of political evolution is proving to be one of their greatest delusions.
Perhaps it is finally time to abandon the mythology: democracy is not the ultimate political ideal, nor is it some universal prescription for humanity.
It has been elevated far beyond what its actual record can justify.....
(Eric Li, political scientist)
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Please note the framing: “Russia’s war in Ukraine” is not followed by “the US-Israeli war in Iran” but by “crisis in the Middle East”. This, ladies and gentlemen of the Collective West, is why no thinking person outside and inside your little “garden” takes you guys seriously anymore. Your hypocrisy is now 100% transparent. You frauds.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East pose major threats to energy and food supplies, trade and freedom of navigation.
Maritime routes are global lifelines.
At the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, I called for a Black Sea freedom of navigation arrangement and reaffirmed the EU’s opposition to tolls and fees on international shipping routes.
Energy security and supply chain resilience are vital for global economic stability.
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Many on the Left wrongly assume that the ideas about the state advanced by Marx in The Communist Manifesto or by Lenin in State and Revolution are inadequate and outdated.
No defensible theory of the state is possible without Marx and Lenin.
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Is it now fine for left-wing media to write that the “chief beneficiary of support for Ukraine is Europe,” not with a critical but with a positive spin?
And, of course, not “Europe,” but the fascisizing centrist elites of the EU and other social groups clinging to the disintegrating transnational order, allied with Ukrainian comprador elites and nationalists to the detriment of the Ukrainian majority, who bear most of the suffering and of the cost to the country’s economic and demographic future.
Sure, socialists need their own foreign policy agenda, as the article argues. But it should be based on a solid theory of global change and on concrete analysis of concrete situations in relation to a socialist international strategy, not on abstract clichés from the last century, crudely applied to very different social contexts and serving as ideological obfuscation and legitimation of a national and potentially global catastrophe.
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Azov has not depoliticized. It is seizing the opportunity to place officers loyal to it, coming from an extreme-right background, in control of ever bigger units of the Ukrainian army.
This is a development that has been predictable since the outset in 2014:
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When units come under Azov control, they tend to replace the commanders with trusted Azovites.
For instance, when the Third Army Corps (Biletsky's Azov) took control of the 60th brigade in 2025, they promptly replaced the commander with Dmytro Rogozyuk. Before the war, Rogozyuk was a prominent figure in the football ultras scene, which is why he had plenty of Azov friends and quickly joined them after 2022.
Just recently, Biletsky gave Rogozyuk command of the entire 3rd Corps, because Biletsky is now in charge of Army Group Centre, the most important frontline grouping

























