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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

1 year

oh hey, would you look at that, coming very soon...

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

real question: is there any other country that does this obscene ritual where the media and political classes just openly get together for a love in, like for everyone to see, while the world literally burns?

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

5 months

Colin Jost: "It's after 10pm. 'Sleepy Joe' is still awake while Donald Trump has spent the past week falling asleep in court every morning – though Fox News said he was just being anti-woke."

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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Incredible result in French snap elections demonstrating that it is _only_ a strong, largely unified left which can break the horrendous downward spiral between authoritarian liberalism and neofascism

Taniel

@Taniel

3 months

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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Zionism as the justification for "massive rearmament" of an increasingly far-right Germany is levels of irony, tragedy, and farce I didn't think simultaneously possible.

Lukas Slothuus

@lslothuus

11 months

Germany has announced a new military doctrine of massive rearmament, highlighting "Israel’s right to exist is of particular importance. Israel’s security is German national interest". A terrifying prospect of Germany getting actively involved in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

2 years

Jeff Bezos: getting a little antsy that running the 21st century version of the East India Company might not end well for him...

Jeff Bezos

@JeffBezos

2 years

This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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10 months

BREAKING: Fascism is a response to what Gramsci called an “organic crisis” in capitalism—not just a periodic downturn, but when serious cracks appear in nearly every edifice of capitalist society, & capital can no longer convincingly claim to be ruling in the universal interest..

CBS News

@CBSNews

10 months

BREAKING: The White House signals it's open to hardline immigration policies to convince Republicans to back Ukraine aid.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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10 months

Are we ready to talk about how Fetterman is a walking, talking discreditation of an entire theory of left politics that is still quite prominent in the anglophone world?

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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9 months

capitalism was actually extremely hard to establish. even setting aside accumulation through colonization, very few peasants in places like the UK were eager to sign on for early (pre-industrial!) wage labor. required tremendous effort and violence to make it seem remotely normal

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

9 months

@TheStalwart That's because you're actually a smart person instead of a weird academic and so you understand that capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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3 months

My god, democrats really are going to express more sympathy for fucking Donald Trump than a single Palestinian ever

President Biden

@POTUS

3 months

I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

3 months

I guess the Toussaint Louverture logo and the name "Jacobin" really are purely just marketing

Jacobin

@jacobin

3 months

Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

9 months

about a thousand times more important than anything having do with Harvard is keeping places like Internet Archive alive, a corner of the internet that holds out at a glimmer of that old internet utopianism - providing astounding resources to specialists and lay people alike.

Internet Archive

@internetarchive

9 months

Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed:

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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2 years

the most popular leftist in france sounding like adorno on free time while making the case against productivism in the name of ecological conditions and the social desire for rest. i was told this kind of thing is very alienating... hmm..

David Broder

@broderly

2 years

Beautiful speech by @JLMelenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 years

One sign that everyone should be abandoning liberalism is that it's literally impossible to distinguish liberal claims from fascist ones right now

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

4 years

One sign that liberals shouldn't be defending antifa is that it's literally impossible to distinguish them from white supremacist militias right now.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

6 months

I too blame Disinvestment, Economists, and Imperialism!

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@AnthonySabatini

6 months

DEI did this

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

7 months

It was already evident in Villeneuve's first Dune film that he fundamentally couldn't grok how central it is to basically everything in Dune that it is an Islamicate universe. Not just some nebulous "religion" or "culture".

✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi

@roxana_hadadi

7 months

so modern mandarin, which paul & yueh speak in DUNE, can survive 20,000 years. but all of the arabic and persian used in herbert's book -- references to ramadan and sunni muslims and an algerian cry of resistance -- would become outdated? come on, man.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

9 months

Hobsbawm: all nations are made up Anderson: made up but in an interplay of technology and language Weber: lol. Even in France, the nation was made up at gun point Fanon: emancipatory nationalism is forged in the crucible of colonialism. It is useful but transitory. & made up

Oren Barsky 🎗️

@orenbarsky

9 months

The Syrians are a made-up nation. The Lebanese are a made-up nation. The Iraqis are a made-up nation. The Jordanians are a made-up nation. The Palestinians are a made-up nation. In contrast, the Israelite nation has been evolving and preserving itself for thousands of years.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

7 months

Literally this:

Breaking News

@BreakingNews

7 months

President Biden invites former President Trump to work together on a border bill while challenging congressional Republicans to “show a little spine.”

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 months

One of the most enduring arguments from Dialectic of Enlightenment is that every absurd fascist projection about its racial enemy is in fact a priori justification, fantasy, and confession of its own aspirations.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

2 years

Marx - middle class bohemian polymath Engels - factory owner and manager Lenin - middle class, paralegal Luxemburg - middle class, economist Mao - wealthy agrarian family, assistant librarian Kautsky - middle class, journalist Castro - wealthy family, aspirational athlete

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 years

That said, this is legitimately wonderful:

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

10 months

vibes-based pseudo-class theory parading itself as 'serious' and 'orthodox' has completely failed. Again.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

There's a lot of reasons I wrote on Kerala in Exhausted, this is just one of them but also this point carries far beyond. The two kids who first unionized a Chipotle here in the US met through mutual interest in Mark Fisher's *cultural theory* writings on like hauntology, etc.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 months

Hague. (And that's the nice option).

Yanis Varoufakis

@yanisvaroufakis

4 months

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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5 months

In addition to basicslly drawing, in nice clear visuals, the Democrats' argument 'yes, we're bad but the other guys are worse', it's worth noting that the yellow line is (a) insufficient and (b) the Biden administration's own target. So it's also a pretty picture of incompetence

Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton

5 months

What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections? Absolutely everything.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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1 year

Literally every single thing the 'anti war left' and basically anyone with a modicum of insight argued from 2001 on proved to be 100% correct. While the counter arguments were _all_ shown to be flatly false or delusional.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

I've been surprised that more than once, I've been asked about the line of untranslated Hebrew that's at the very end of my book. It's one of my favorite lines from the Passover Haggadah: 'in each generation one is obligated to see oneself as if you left Egypt.' a few days ago...

Harsha Walia

@HarshaWalia

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"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." - Frantz Fanon

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

11 months

Absolutely insane. If you can't see it at this point you just can't see. Censure for the most _moderate_ dissent. No censure for genocide. Talk of stripping citizenship across the "free world." The complete emptiness of Western "democracy" & "civilization" is plain for all.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

11 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — House censures Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her rhetoric about Israel, rebuking the only Palestinian American in Congress.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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3 months

LOL. Solzhenitsyn *was* a Putin supporter when he was alive and although liberals (and conservatives) love him for his anti-Communism, he was pretty much a generic, nationalist reactionary

Francis Fukuyama

@FukuyamaFrancis

3 months

Solzhenitsyn would probably be a Putin supporter today were he alive. He wanted a Slavic union of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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6 months

I'm sorry but this is one of the greatest condiments ever invented and even this *brand* dates back to when Chang was 7

đan

@danqdao

6 months

rancid behavior from david chang … also asian solidarity is a big fat myth

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

2 years

nothing in this tweet is wrong per se but when I teach fascism, I always have students move past this stuff on the first week. And then to move into what fascism actually was in historical and political economic terms...

Finchelstein

@FinchelsteinF

2 years

What is fascism? In historical terms, it was an ultranationalist, anti-liberal and anti-Marxist politics. Its primary aim was to destroy democracy from within to create a modern dictatorship from above (thead)

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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8 months

I ta'd for Rashid for about 3 or 4 years. Had meals at his home. He was on the dissertation committee and a close supporter and advisor to BISR's orthodox deputy director. I can say with literally zero caveats that the insinuation of him as an anti-semite is preposterous.

Lawrence H. Summers

@LHSummers

8 months

My confidence in Harvard leadership’s ability and will to confront anti-semitism and the demonization of Israel continues to decline. Unfortunately, it is becoming ever clearer why Harvard ranks first on anti- semitism, even as it ranks last on upholding free speech. Confronting

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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2 years

I am once again begging - BEGGING - people who consider themselves historical materialists to become better acquainted with natural scientific work (contemporary, not 19th century) particularly in climate and technology. You are lapping up pure snake oil.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

2 years

ok stopping now to do real work but this is not some like gotcha hypocrisy dig; Marx - thinking on the model of the French Revolution - literally theorized the necessity of class traitors in leadership. It _is_ prompted by reading just the most horrendous bullshit PMC takes

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

Not only can I hardly believe this is from Macklemore, it's better than like 90% of news coverage and even some "left" takes

Read Abolish Rent

@JoshuaPHilll

5 months

Wait. Macklemore just dropped Hind’s Hall.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

10 months

A lot of good people, who know well the fraught nature of official politics put great work in for him and I personally wanted him to win, but is anyone from full team 'this-is-the-way' going to even spend a moment reflecting on this?

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

3 months

@MaryHeglar Also way better than all four of those

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

10 months

uh, so here's a thing that now physically exists in the world! my own contribution to the immense accumulation of commodities...

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

2 years

PS. Also obviously there were Marxists, socialist, anticolonial, feminist, etc. leaders who were NOT middle class but the point is to just stop with the comically reductive models of class and politics. Maybe I'll have time later in the week to name which book set me off...

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

The liberal war on causality and structural analysis continues and is indeed ramping up. Sorry that social totality is a thing (even more so socioecolgical totality) despite it ruining your just-so-stories of nicely siloed policy portfolios and talking points.

stacy

@stacycay

5 months

Everything doesn’t have to do with everything- and that’s ok. American civil rights isn’t related to Israel-Palestine, which isn’t related to the rising cost of groceries, which isn’t related to protecting American democracy…the universe is indifferent. This isn’t a movie

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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5 months

The word uprising is not anti-semitic, in any language

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@asmamk

5 months

A new statement from the White House in response to the news of Columbia protestors taking over a campus building.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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6 months

Surely the SPD would never catastrophically ally with reactionaries

Michael Sappir 🕊

@meemsaf

6 months

That the German Minister of the Interior (SPD) dares call a clearly left-leaning pro-Palestinian crowd in which Jews are overrepresented "islamists" and "antisemites" is itself alarming: is the racism and misinformation so solid that she can get away with it?

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

10 months

...Neofascism is developing as a mode of crisis governance for in a moment in which capitalism is malfunctioning, even on its own terms. Both climate change and secular stagnation—the long global decline in economic growth—are forces that apply so much pressure on capital.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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4 years

Genuine curiosity: since rioting, looting, violence, etc. accompany the vast majority of social and political transformations in history, what is the actual threshold that 'rioting is always wrong / bad / counter-productive' types have for when it's good?

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

10 months

There's a German word for everything. If this is even remotely true, that word is Einsatzgruppen.

جاله

@_Jala__

10 months

A new image posted by an Israeli channel on Telegram shows the Israeli forces leading civilians to an empty area, preparing to execute them, live massacres in front of the world. SHARE 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 #GazaGenocide #Gaza #Gaza_Geniocide

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4 years

CLR James and Edward Said, jamming out to some Bach.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 years

COVID is not a "test" for disaster management. Texas is not a "test" for technological capacity. These are both just a taste of climate change as organized by capital. This is all the market succeeding. This is things going well for "business-as-usual."

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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3 months

When I talk about "civil war" as a model of climate politics in Exhausted, Bolivia is my key example. If people think a smidge of paint on Stonehenge is intolerable tout court, they're just not ready for the intensity of climate politics

روني الدنماركي

@Aldanmarki

3 months

This is what Bolivia looked like in 2019, the last time it had a coup. Thousands upon thousands of people calling for a 'civil war' to overthrow the CIA-backed putschists. The first time I can recall a civil population actually demanding a civil war. That's how serious it was.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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1 year

I am so proud to call @BarnabyRaine a friend, colleague, comrade, and fellow yid. Watch this. Barnaby shows what real engaged scholarship looks like, what real solidarity looks like. Not giving in, not going along to get along, but fighting, baruch hashem, so we can all be free.

Nihal | نهال

@nihalist___

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I think this is the first time since October 7th that I’ve seen unequivocal solidarity with Palestine from a non-Arab on British media. credit to @BarnabyRaine thanks for not holding back

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I am once again begging people to read Neumann's Behemoth, written basically during and just after the fact. Yes, it's a giant doorstop book but it will (a) dispel such ridiculous notions and (b) explicate Nazism as a functioning, governing political project.

Samuel Miller McDonald

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"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust

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Fanon - middle class, psychiatrist Trotsky - upper middle class, professional revolutionary Cabral - wealthy family, agronomist Che - bourgeois, doctor Kollontai - aristocratic background, literary and political writer Nkrumah - middle class, teacher

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Adaptations are often best when they aren't too in love with the source material but rather try to create something compelling for the different medium. That said, why anything about Dune is compelling requires engaging with an imagined future which is hegemonically Islamic.

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Something quite hard to understand about Zionism (although it's plain as day in most early Zionist theorists/leaders - not just the revisionists) is that it is deeply, profoundly anti-semitic. It is predicated on hatred and shame at basically all previous Jewish life of any kind.

Rachel Gur

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Better to stand alone than to live at the mercy of others. We are the first Jews in 2000 years who refuse to die quietly. We will continue to stand, to prosper and thrive. We have survived exile, the inquisition, crusades, programs and the Holocaust. We will prevail.

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baroness shafik auditioning for some kind of mid level bureaucratic position within authoritarian liberalism

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@Columbia

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A message from President Shafik.

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Perhaps the most bizarre thing happening in current US politics (and there's a lot of competition!) is that there is near universal agreement that the Court just took us from a murky de facto to a de jure Schmittian republic and ... we're just acting like this is not the case?

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While we're on the topic of "radical" professors proving to be anything but, I'd love to hear what the self-appointed doyen of Anglophone "Marxism" is up to? Doing some quiet solidarity or just editing the next Catalyst article on how we need to increase police budgets?

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The emperor is basically a Qajar or a Mughal. The fremen are basically Shia. Paul is very much a "mahdi" -- a quite this worldly messianic figure, alien to common Christian understanding but very familiar within Islamic and Jewish traditions. The European sounding houses...

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nine academics to ignore (no one's got infinite time anyway); gotta say some of these specializations (internationalism, decolonization, etc.) are particularly galling

Esmat Elhalaby

@thaqafatalhind

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Today, nine of our colleagues were awarded the Dan David Prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University. Less than fifty miles south of Tel Aviv, hundreds of our colleagues and thousands of students have been killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli state.

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extraordinary (but not really) that it is "serious" and "realistic" to push for what could actually be global thermo-nuclear war but the same self-designated "voices of reason" balk at the immediate interventions needed for climate mitigation and adaptation as too "radical"

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@_TimBarker And uh effectively ending the primary in the 2020 cycle...

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9 months

I have to admit "TACKLED THE CLIMATE CRISIS" takes the cake here. I mean, wow, what an incredible sense of relief, glad we got that one done. (In no way shape or form is that true or are Biden policies even a 'mixed bag' on climate. They're actually pretty horrific.)

President Biden

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One more great year in the books.

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3 years

I can't think of a single example of real, successful left politics, particularly on the scale of what climate mitigation and adaptation requires, that would pass this bizarre Kantian sniff test.

Leigh Phillips

@Leigh_Phillips

3 years

Andreas Malm’s call for activists to use violence to force upon democratic society his preferred set of climate policies regardless of the majority’s wishes demonstrates a wildly anti-democratic, authoritarian impulse that the rest of the left should reject without qualification.

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... are vying powers _within_ that massive framework. Herbert was an Orientalist in every sense of the term but he actually did a better job Provincializing Europe than Chakrabarty.

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Honored that Raymond Geuss took me and Dania for a quick visit to the Cambridge Palestine solidarity encampment

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@materialist_jew

2 years

This is the thing Adorno was talking about

Mr. Chau

@Srirachachau

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This is the thing Scorsese was talking about

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The actions against @Jodi7768 are totally reprehensible, if predictable in the rather right-wing academy. Their explication here is comical. Jodi deserves your *unconditional* solidarity (if you don't understand what that means she has written several books that can help you).

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@materialist_jew

2 years

The right wing actually does, you know, politics

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The GOP is making a huge push for nonwhite voters, setting up community centers nationwide and courting minorities with an extremely offline, secretive, and media unfriendly campaign, offering free dinners, movie nights, easter egg hunts, more.

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When Benjamin wrote "even the dead will not be safe from the enemy" this is exactly what he had in mind. Not only the destruction of people & memory. Every bit of lost 'detritus' -already marginalized, repressed- is a loss of the very material from which radical politics is made

Birzeit University

@BirzeitU

10 months

The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of #Gaza municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its #history . It is worth noting that the archive holds #documents more than a hundred years old.

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Almost every discussion of green growth, degrowth, etc. orbits theory. One of the reasons I call the school of thought roughly represented by Phillips and Huber Climate Lysenkoism is to point out their empirical fabrications and caution against such theory focused engagement..

Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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Climate Lysenkoism

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@materialist_jew

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As me and my colleague Suzanne Schneider have been arguing in various places, Israel is one of _the_ key models for the global far right today.

Eoghan Gilmartin

@EoghanGilmartin

5 months

Vox's huge far-right rally is beginning in Madrid this morning with chants of "Viva España! Viva Israel!" Guests include Le Pen 🇫🇷, Ventura 🇵🇹, Orbán 🇭🇺, but the star of the show will be Javier Milei 🇦🇷. Also Israel's minister to combat anti-semitism is due to speak to a room

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@materialist_jew

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@paulmasonnews @BarnabyRaine Wait, you actually believe the British military - essentially little more than a branch of the US military - works on behalf of *any* part of the working class?

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Don't know what to say other than what's in Exhausted; if you think you're going back before Gaza, before COVID, before the financial crisis etc you're not. Socioecolgical conditions = fierce struggle for something radically better or capitulation to uneven & combined catastrophe

Brian Brettschneider

@Climatologist49

5 months

🚨🚨🚨 April 2024 easily beat the record for warmest April. A staggering 21% of the globe had their warmest April since 1940. Even when you exclude the oceans, April 2024 over land was also the warmest on record.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

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Without understanding fascism as a response to organic crises in capitalism, it gets kinda stuck in this surface level stuff. I don't really understand the "fear" / "hate" binary hear. But all real politics involves some kind of friend/enemy distinction (if you have Schmitt...

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

4 years

Actually it's Vivek Chibber who has a hilariously insubstantial body of work consistenting almost exclusively of scholastic dispute and is held up bizarrely as a paragon of hard-minded truth telling on the left

Anton Jäger

@AntonJaegermm

4 years

Who is the most overrated leftist writer and why is it André Gorz?

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@materialist_jew

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@lhfang You realize there is zero evidence of this right? Exit polls show people like the program, the platform, etc. You're projecting what you think "real" people want. Media is relentlessly pounding the story that Bernie is a catastrophe and Biden will beat Trump.

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@materialist_jew

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This is a guy who speculated approximately 45 minutes or so into the Notre Dame fire that it _might_ be a terrorist attack even as firefighters on the ground were saying definitely not.

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@materialist_jew

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... I saw the above Fanon line with such a perfect parallel. There's always a pharaoh. There's always a golden calf. There's always the struggle. You yourself are a part of that. Fight the current pharaohs, eschew the tempting idols, struggle for freedom and for our world.

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

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defended Andreas Malm's inclusion of Palestine solidarity as germane to a panel I was chairing on climate politics; ended up in some massive academic encyclopedia as a proponent of the "new" anti-semitism.

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@buffys

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what was your biggest twitter controversy?

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@materialist_jew

8 months

@dieworkwear I know this question is a bit lateral to the topic but would genuinely love to read a post from you on Nehru and/or Mao suits, whether worn in full or in combination with more familiar Western-style suit pieces.

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@materialist_jew

8 months

oh buddy, got some bad news on what your Hindenburg vote ends up doing

Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐

@TrueSlazac

8 months

If Hindenburg and Hitler are the only choices you should vote for Hindenburg

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@materialist_jew

7 months

I mean come on, Paul's 'secret' Fremen name is Usul! i.e. Arabic for "foundation" i.e. Usuli, the Arabic term often (mis)translated as "fundamentalism"!

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@materialist_jew

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anyway, not going to catalogue every little thing but these are CENTRAL to what makes Dune interesting as a text of any kind. This is not to deny that Herbert was a _super_ weird/problematic writer but it's the weird and the problems that make the damn thing worth engaging with.

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@materialist_jew

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LOL. "Punch left" is one of the most prevalent commandments of our society. You can make bank "punching left"; whole institutions and careers exist exclusively for "punching left"; it's far and away the easiest thing to do; the anxiety of crisis management running real high here

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

5 months

"Don't punch left" is an increasingly popular progressive social norm. Here's why I believe liberals should not adhere to it.

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@materialist_jew

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Ok, one more bit: what the article claims re: language is... already largely accounted for in the text. There's changes, syncretic formulations, etc. These guys just can't imagine a universe in which basically the unspoken assumptions are coded non-western.

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@materialist_jew

3 years

I'm often queasy with the immediate posthumous proliferation of an author's work but for Lauren Berlant, I have no such qualms. Hers is exactly the kind of theory so desperately needed and so frequently disparaged today. Literally don't know how I'd think w/o her. Read it!

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@materialist_jew

10 months

Before I'm accused of plagiarism, yes I'm quoting myself:

Neofascism After Trump

A conversation with political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary on contemporary fascism in a global context.

jewishcurrents.org

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@materialist_jew

5 years

So, as the kids say, I have the 'rona. I'll still be teaching my classes, (hopefully) doing some writing/editing, and rolling out new BISR programs but if anyone is wondering where I've gone the answer is easy: to sleep.

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@materialist_jew

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One of the big differences between now and the post-9/11 moment: much fewer people believe this ahistorical bullshit about some mysterious 'unknowable' 'inexpiclable' 'evil' from 'time immemorial'

BOO👻barism critic🎃 🇵🇸✨

@SxarletRed

5 months

Biden says Hamas is motivated by “ancient desires” to eliminate Jews

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

3 months

I'm sorry to say there's basically no campaign ad better than this image

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@materialist_jew

5 months

Wagenknecht?! Is this a joke?

New Left Review

@NewLeftReview

5 months

coming soon:

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@materialist_jew

2 years

A thing that's really hard for even some people deeply invested in the politics of climate change is that this is not some weird future event or even a looming one. You don't need a crystal ball. This, right here, is climate change in real time. /1

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@extremetemps

2 years

It's day #2 of this Indian/Pakistani Heat wave:Today 27 April Nawabshah in #Pakistan reached 47.5C new high in the Hemisphere in 2022. In #India 45.6C at Rajgarh. 43C also in Myanmar and Thailand. Next days will be worse and Central Asia will also approach 40C

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@materialist_jew

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Trump has spectacular instincts for performance, especially for the camera. He clearly was like 'oh sweet, I'm ok, I should get up and do a sick pose' like in wrestling. None of that means anything about some kind of preternatural gift to rule but please keep confessing like this

Sohrab Ahmari

@SohrabAhmari

3 months

I love how all these assistant professors of auto-ethnography are like, “Yeah I could’ve fist-bumped after getting shot in the ear, too, no biggie.” Yeah, OK, buddy.

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@materialist_jew

2 months

Powerful endorsement

Emissary of Night 🔆🍉

@EmissaryOfNight

2 months

Israeli commentators are already freaking the fuck out about Harris lol

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@materialist_jew

5 months

this time without that German guy

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@materialist_jew

2 years

he should be so lucky to just get roasted on Twitter on his death bed in old age. Baruch hashem, inshallah, and all that jazz, things are much... swifter for Mr. Bezos.

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@materialist_jew

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Israel wants regional war so badly at this point as it's the only way to stave off the intense internal instability that has long been evident within its *Jewish* population, not even as regards Palestinians. This is an almost unfathomably insane move even in that context.

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@materialist_jew

11 months

Israel is literally, openly engaging in the deliberate mass killing of civilians. It trumpets this in basically every Hebrew statement and even the English spokespeople are having difficulty sticking to the script you'd prefer.

Shashank Joshi

@shashj

11 months

Israel is not engaged in the "deliberate mass killing of civilians". I will repeat that as many times as needed despite the obtuse trolling to the contrary. Criticise & condemn the war all you like, but there is no evidence Israel's war is aimed at murdering civilians.

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@materialist_jew

7 years

ok, it's time for some game, er... critical theory actually. I'm high on green tea and ready to go 1/x

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

7 years

#NeverTrump . #NeverFrankfurtSchool .

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

3 years

from fossil capital to global political economy, socioecological colonization to the psychology of climate change, "The Extractive Circuit" is out today in @thebafflermag

The Extractive Circuit | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Although capitalism promises a cheap, efficient path to plenty, it delivers a costly, privatized system based on impossible inputs in a finite natural world.

thebaffler.com

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

5 months

At the Berkeley occupation

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Ajay Singh Chaudhary

@materialist_jew

8 months

the anarcho-cap golden child is an authoritarian Christian theocrat? I am shocked. SHOCKED!

Globe Eye News

@GlobeEyeNews

8 months

BREAKING: Argentina President Javier Milei called for the demolition of Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, "in order to bring the Messiah."

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