I have always found Kondylis' work fascinating and thought-provoking. Since most are not even aware of his thought, I decided to re-publish some excerpts from one of his books. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/the-dark-sid…

This a great shot by Cologne photographer Juan Guzmán. 26 July 1936. Inside restaurant of Hotel Colon taken over PSUC (communist) militia after the defeat of coup in Barcelona. Bullet holes in the window. Across Plaça Catalunya the Telephone Exchange controlled by anarchist CNT.

After the swift and violent removal of the Berlin-wide students' encampment Freie Universität without any attempt to enter into a dialogue with the students, some of us wrote this statement. Please consider signing. Gerne unterschreiben! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

the Greek wholesale electricity market remains one of the most expensive in Europe, with the average price being the fourth highest in the European Union in both 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. ekathimerini.com/economy/energy…

Only a few more days left to apply -- deadline next week!

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin, a pioneering org which supported gay and trans rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/…

The Phantom Time Conspiracy theory proposes a radical revision of historical chronology by suggesting that the years 614 to 911 were invented, leading to the assertion that we should be living in the year 1726, not 2024. This theory claims that the fabrication of these 300 years…

CHICAGO: Éric Monnet (Eric Monnet) will discuss his new book BALANCE OF POWER with Jonathan Levy (@_jonlevy) this Thursday at 6pm at the legendary Seminary Coop (@SeminaryCoop) in Hyde Park.

Best years to be into central banking

I show how Brimelow recounts his turn to the Far Right through encounters with three neoliberal luminaries: Julian Simon, Peter Bauer, and Milton Friedman. His nativist restrictionism is not a turn from economic rationality, it's a new form of it, what I call an 'ethno-economy.'

Snippets of European integration as a process led by transnational epistemic networks rather than competing national interests #1
[from: Seidel, Katja (2009), 𝐷𝐺 𝐼𝑉 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦]

German kids playing with stacks of hyper-inflated currency during the Weimar Republic.

(The highest value banknote issued by the Weimar government's Reichsbank had a face value of 100 trillion Mark. By 1923, the banknotes had lost so much value that they were used as wallpaper)

Some of you may have different ideas, but rest assured that this is what peak performance looks like. (Thank you for indulging me--I'll finally stop posting these now that I've finally managed to lift over 600 lb (601 to be exact). Only took me 20 years.)
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Not only we are supposed to take this gibberish seriously, we are meant to see it published in a left wing journal?

thinking of Mike Davis

The last five weeks, I was on the Sea-Watch 5 as Protection Officer. During our training, our friends from Mare Jonio (Mediterranea Saving Humans) were shot at by the (EU funded) Libyan Coast Guards. After we heard about a shipwreck off the Tunisian coast, where 2 bodies were retrieved,... (1/x)

and an new layer this morning:

if you're a migrant who questions sanctimonious Marxists legitimising politicians who fundamentally divide the world into 'us/you migrants', you must be a liberal.
workers of my fucking country, unite.

Have been ghosted by X! Hurrah! Please come and find me on other platforms. Details on website: lyndseystonebridge.com
All love, Lyndsey x

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Seems like an opportune time to repost this