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hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.

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New publication 🙌

It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social

Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
The picture is a screenshot of the title of the paper (The de-politicisation of decarbonisation through climate rent: a Marxist critique of the EU emissions trading system) on the online website of the European Law Open journal
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pashukanist.bsky.social
Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
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'The ‘smartness’ of these sanctions lies.. more in their ability to enable the British state to appear to ‘take action’ against Israel, whilst preserving the fundamental ideological and material realities of Israel’s settler-colonial project and genocide.'
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August H. Nimtz on LA: 'The events in Los Angeles have the potential of being an important learning opportunity—the necessary preparatory work for the real revolutionary moment that Trump redux inexorably promises.' legalform.blog/2025/06/16/l...
Lessons of Los Angeles — August H. Nimtz
August Nimtz on the events in LA, labour in the US, and whether we are witnessing a revolutionary moment.
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'More "communal" forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards'. Levi Rafael Groenewold writes on Pashukanis, technical standards, and the fate of the legal form.
In Defence of Technical Standards: The Development of Social Relations in Post-Legal Communism — Levi Rafael Groenewold
‘More “communal” forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards than a body of people unaccountabl…
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Rosie Woodhouse writes on Staatsräson: Germany joins the US in pursuing 'repression via deportation of political action against their respective governments' ongoing material and ideological facilitation of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.'
German Staatsräson Means Deportation? — Rosie Woodhouse
Rosie Woodhouse on the repression of Palestinian solidarity in Germany.
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Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitrios Kivotidis's THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRACY (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and bringing communist ideas into a field traditionally dominated by mainstream perspectives.
Leninism, post-marxism and the class consciousness of social movements — Maria Tzanakopoulou
Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitris Kivotidis’ The Dialectics of Democracy (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and …
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'Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. Never to be forgotten is that the only job the septuagenarian ever held before 2017 was that of a capitalist boss. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House'. August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US.
Trump Redux: A Silver Lining? — August H. Nimtz
‘Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House.’ August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US…
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Would appreciate being added, thanks!