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Danish Society for Marxist Studies
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We are an independent academic society working to strengthen Danish research at the intersection between Marxism and other traditions of radical scholarship. For news about our annual conference → http://marxistiskestudier.com/
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · Oct 10
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨

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.
Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.
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alirizataskale.bsky.social
Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
Danish Marxism: Now conquering a technical university near you!

Exciting new paper on the wind energy industry by @williamwc.bsky.social 👇👇
williamwc.bsky.social William Westgard-Cruice @williamwc.bsky.social · 2d
A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."

My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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williamwc.bsky.social
A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."

My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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sorenmau.bsky.social
'Contrainte Muette' is out now from @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social. Thanks to @prada-meinhof.bsky.social and Camilla Brenni for the excellent translation, and to Léa Gallon for the beautiful design 💙
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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legalform.bsky.social
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.

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International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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magnusz.bsky.social
A huge win for Danish Marxism by proxy
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social
A new network of scholars, activists and organizers influenced by Marxism in the Netherlands @marxism-nl.bsky.social wil be launched on Dec 3 at an event at Pakhuis de Zwijger.

This is the website of the network
marxism-nl.org/en

This is the event on Dec 3
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Special Marxists in the Netherlands Unite!
Back to class. Marxism in the Netherlands today.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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sorenmau.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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mflohr.bsky.social
Great to be part of the brilliant panel on “Critique and Method” at the @histmat.bsky.social london 2025 conference with Anna Beria, Svenja Bromberg, and Silvestre Gristina, chaired by Kaan Kangal
A full seminar room at SOAS for the Historical Materialism conference The programme description of a panel on “Critique and Method” at Historical Materialism London 2025
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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marielouisekrogh.bsky.social
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!

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Map of Cuba from Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1825-6).
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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mikkelnj.bsky.social
These are my children's freshly baked pizzas from their pizzeria called Il Marxos. Online ordering is open.
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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aludvig.bsky.social
Check out this special issue on Social Investments in the welfare state. We do indeed find that this logic has deep roots but also show it is always intertwined with other logics and so it should be evaluated contextually.
actasociologica.bsky.social Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 19d
In the first article,
@aludvig.bsky.social and Troels Krarup question if the social investment logic is really new by looking at similar utilitarian ideas in Danish welfare politics from 1880 to 1940, and they find that such logics have deep roots.

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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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llchristyll.bsky.social
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
It’s Denmark, there are Marxists, we’ll take it 💕
llchristyll.bsky.social Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 26d
Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.
Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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mikkelnj.bsky.social
SMS is for the children. I guess.
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Freely available as a PDF on our website 💕

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October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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mflohr.bsky.social
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
Picture of two copies of the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" published by Problema Mikkel Flohr standing on a chair introducing the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" next to Magnus Møller Ziegler displaying a copy of the book at the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Aarhus University Mikkel Flohr and Magnus Møller Ziegler standing on chairs in front of multiple participants at the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Aarhus University, about to present the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future"
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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candmageloes.bsky.social
Trying to register for @histmat.bsky.social 22nd Conference and it looks we've manage to abolish "Danish Marxism" completely... Hooray🎉💔🥲
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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mflohr.bsky.social
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
Back from Aarhus and feeling the post conference blues, staring out of the window into the gloomy grey yonder of October rain, wondering how you can get some more of that sweet sweet Danish Marxism?

Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇
mflohr.bsky.social Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · Oct 22
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
An image of the first page of the article "Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” by Mikkel Flohr in the journal "Thesis Eleven" containing title, abstract, and keywords.
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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timchristiaens.bsky.social
Back on the train from Denmark to the Netherlands with some nice memories of the 10th (!) edition of the Danish Marxist Society conference. Looking forward to next year with @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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mikkelnj.bsky.social
Great times, talks and people as always at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.socials conference this weekend!
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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lslothuus.bsky.social
My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!

While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:

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Petrol For the People
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
www.break-down.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM