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Rob Knox
@pashukanist.bsky.social
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https://liverpool.academia.edu/RobertKnox (He/him) No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand. SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. [email protected], LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social‬. Opinions mine. Marxist
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Nov 16
Law won't save us.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h
Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 6d
Labour: Reform migrant policy is "racist" and "immoral."

Also Labour: No more "golden ticket" for these "asylum shoppers."
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 8d
You know what no one has ever done before?

Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.
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ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality & International Law Interest Group @anzsilgsil.bsky.social · 8d
Registrations are now open for our workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism'! The workshop will be hybrid and take place on 30 & 31 October at Melbourne Law School. See the draft program: drive.google.com/file/d/1YbYn...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 9d
On a curious and failed effort to rehabilitate Labour Together
The Banality of Morgan McSweeney
I see there was a strange effort to rehabilitate Labour Together, the right wing think tank/pressure group set up by Morgan McSweeney as his...
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11d
There's going to be attention to whether there are/were issues with Roberts's visa and imo it's important to not let that stuff matter. The fight shouldn't be 'only deportations where the paperwork is correct!' it should be against deportations and ICE per se

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents
The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested Friday after fleeing ...
www.iowapublicradio.org
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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 13d
This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians.

But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 13d
I would simply have 1 curiosity about why the guy who clearly wants to feed all our data to the AI gods keeps coming up with increasingly silly excuses for packaging up all our data in one ready-to-eat serving.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes
Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 13d
Five hours apart
Two tweets by Keir Starmer, one saying: Real patriotism means building a country where everyone feels safe, valued and respected. We choose hope over fear, and renewal over decline. The other saying: I’m focused on real, workable solutions to tackle illegal immigration. Not gimmicks. Returning people with no right to be here, seizing hundreds of boats and working with international partners to smash the gangs. That's how we are securing our borders.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 14d
An anti-racist strategy:

Step 1: get rid of every racialised person
Step 2: the racists have nothing to complain about anymore
Step 3: we win!
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Kat Hunfeld @kathunfeld.bsky.social · 14d
Still beaming from teaching with this today - it’s incredible to witness the ease with which students make sense of complex theory when it comes to applying it to the most urgent contexts. Thanks for writing it @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam!
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 19d
It is actually completely mind bending watching a Home Counties numpty scream “Christ is King“ - would have been unimaginable even a year ago - how susceptible their whole personality is to American YouTubers - pathetic really
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 20d
I mean if they aren't fully embracing the tension between the forces and means of production what ARE they doing?
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Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social · 20d
If you are not anti-fsscist you are pro-fascist.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
.. but equal
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
... people have to stop acting like calling some people and behaviours racist/s is a greater problem than, you know, actual racism.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
... but equally, mobilising on 'just' racism as a free-standing thing doesn't work.

5. Important, on this basis, not just to call every overt manifestation of racism: 'fascist', it totally obscures the quotidian centrality of racism to capitalism.

And ...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
... but not just as like a 'trick', and not as them simply standing in for the 'real' causes.

4. So, to state the boring an obvious thing. It's not enough to argue for anti-austerity etc. and think we will magically address racism. You gotta have explicit anti-racist mobilisations ...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
3. Of course I - and others argue - that this form is rooted in capitalist social relations, on a historical and structural level.

So it's all a bit more mediated. Like of course we can trace particular changes/mobilisation in racism to shifting patterns in capitalism ...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
2. But saying 'racism' is REALLY just about austerity, or insecurity or whatever is not a(n adequate) materialist response.

And neither is going 'the ruling class wants to divide us'.

These don't pay attention to what pepole *are actually saying*, and can't explain the *form* racist claims take.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 21d
1. When we are thinking about race and racism, we *do* need a materialist account.

We can't just imagine that these are 'ideas' which people.

And we also can't imagine these are responses to 'real' racial categories.
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 23d
Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas."
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The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History: A JHI Blog Forum
by Jonathon Catlin, Paige Pendarvis, and Jacob Saliba In recent years, intellectual history has been said to be undergoing a renaissance at the same time as it has been institutionally hollowed out. R...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 22d
'AND PARTICULARLY MANY ETHNIC MINORITY BRITONS'.

He's our anti-racist hero.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22d
NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 22d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I always want to ask “who hurt you, JD?”, and then remember that he wrote a book about it
JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics
US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers
www.theguardian.com
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