Anton Jäger
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Historian of political thought | Lecturer @UnivOxford | Works on populism etc. Usual disclaimers.
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I wrote about the rise of the far-right across Europe, and how the continent is not returning to the 1930s but moving into something disturbingly new.
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Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961.
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Will die on this hill: despite obvious difference in political systems, it’s still lowkey Orientalist to call Russian capitalists ‘oligarchs’ while Bezos, Musk, Branson consistently go by title ‘billionaires’ and their hold over Atlantic politics is arguably more oligarchical.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini punches a young fascist in front of the cinema Quattro Fontane in Rome, 1962
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This entire World Cup is the best colonial revenge fantasy ever
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Model pig on display at a Soviet parade, somewhere late 1920s.
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Dreaming of becoming the type of guy who majors in polsci at 21, lands a natsec internship at 22, and then writes the new Afghan constitution at 23, only to tweet "how could this happen?" from my DC condo at 31.
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"Ok I don't know who needs to hear this but it's time to talk about the Ch*rch and its deeply problematic use of Indulgences - a thread" 1/95
Horrified by the theological implications of the fact that Luther should clearly be the patron saint of posting.
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German Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz was arrested Wednesday morning along with at least 24 others suspected of planning a coup d'état in Germany
The action is ongoing and 3000 police officers have arrested people in Germany associated with a right-wing group
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It's impossible to find a better metaphor for politics in the last 30 years than Armando Iannucci's account of his visit to the 'actual' West Wing, noticing that everyone there was just pretending to be a character in the show 'The West Wing.' Baudrillard's deepest victory.
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When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day.
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Knew I recognised that pattern from somewhere - Macron vs. Mélenchon (2022) vs. Commune areas in 1871
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Freud with those great tips on how to prep the Zoom class.
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If you feel like weeping:
“Rents were set at 3.5 percent of the average semiskilled worker’s income.”
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Yes, because Marxism is not a monocausal science of human motivation but a probabilistic theory about the material constraints on human action. Its model of determinism is ‘parametric’ rather than ‘mechanical’, as Ernest Mandel put it in his critique of GA Cohen.
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Luttwak with a materialist hypothesis on why politics has become so epically stupid
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Great moments in bureaucratic perversion: Stasi agents at an office party in the mid-1980s, each dressed in the attire of the person they’re spying on.
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Drawing by a 12-year old Lenin to a school friend who moved to a different town
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We can claim that our liberal oligarchies are better places to live, but please stop pretending the label only applies ‘over there’
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German memory culture and its geopolitical correlates relies so heavily on Holocaust as a uniquely German project, while all recent scholarship shows its pan-European dimension - something Steiner noted in 1983, only 4 years after W. Germany had its first proper debate about it.
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The 9-11 hijacker who wrote an MA thesis on urban planning which included a critique of the high rise
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OK I get that all dying empires produce curiosities but the US really is a specific specimen.
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Just remembered that Foucault was paid in hashish for his appearance at the Chomsky-Foucault debate.
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Re-reading Adorno and Horkheimer’s chapter on the culture industry and realizing it’s so much better read as a long and panicked scream telling people to never, ever go to LA rather than a deep meditation on modernity.
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Parisian workers commemorate the 1917 Revolution on May Day 1919 by marching with knives between their teeth.
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I'm sorry to say this but boomer critical theorists from Italy questioning the "authoritarian biopolitics" of the corona lockdown are really just the academic equivalent of GOP Senators going to their packed ribs restaurant the night of the travel ban.
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Wealth is increasingly state-dependent over here as well and I don’t see how the American donor class doesn’t qualify as oligarchical either - so spare me the ‘Putin apologia’ accusations
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Sublimely beautiful tweet
Going after Russian Dark money could cause house prices in Central London to crash overnight.
Rents could plummet, jeopardising the livelihoods of tens of thousands of landlords.
Hold Mr Putin to account, robustly, by all means. But do so sensibly. Pragmatically. Declare war.
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The most messed up thing about post-Fordism is that even Mr. Burns' life-long employment plan looks nearly utopian today.
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That's a hell lot of 'rules-based international order' right there
Map of US bombing in SE Asia during the Vietnam War. Black dots are 1000 lb bombs.
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“The great misfortune of Germany is that, unlike the Stuarts or the Bourbons, none of the Hohenzollerns have ever been beheaded."
Max Weber
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What really irks other Europeans about the French is that their population has enough Jacobin spirit left to rebel against the tyranny of low expectations overtaking the developed world, and that they don't even have the resolve to revolt. It's about jealousy!
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A real danger of the academic republicanism literature trickling into public debate is that all the aristocratic republics from Venice to Switzerland, which gave landed classes a forum to the king, are now considered ‘proto-democratic’
I'm reading Zamoyski's history of Poland and I'm struck about how little Western Europeans are taught about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!
In 1619, it controlled a quarter/third of Europe's landmass, with a rich culture, a strong education and a proto-democracy.
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Nietzsche on the ahistorical happiness of cows still one of his most stunning passages
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The discourse engine is overheating up but still:
There's no better sign we live in a class society that the media will do extensive portraits of the 5 U-Boot passengers and never bother to identify the hundreds who drowned in the Mediterranean last week
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A fact guaranteed to Adorno-pill anyone is that the Haber-Bosch process which sustains the food production of about half of humanity today also lay at the root of the chemical warfare which killed about 100k soldiers in WWI. That’s some dialectic of Enlightenment for you.
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How pandemics impact cultural history: the 1918 flu killed Max Weber, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, but spared Friedrich Hayek, Walt Disney, TS Eliot, and Woodrow Wilson. What is our calculus?
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An emergency banknote designed during the German hyperinflation, in expressionist style
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Marx’s biggest GOAT moment is still his first meeting with Kautsky in the early 1880s, who told him that young socialists were “ardently awaiting the speedy appearance of the second volume of Capital”, to which he replied “Me too.”
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Wrote about Baudrillard's America and why it's still the best book to understand 2022
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"Hey, you're finally awake. Dogecoin? Grimes? Carl Schmitt? What are you talking about?"
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This book opens with that anecdote about Marx getting refused entry to a Wagner performance in Bayreuth in 1876 so you know it’ll be good
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The amount of amnesia on this is astonishing - even Habermas (!) made this argument in 1990:
"An annexation which dishonestly evades essential conditions for the founding of any nation state: the public act of a carefully considered democratic decision taken in both Germanies."
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Mélenchon’s programme is even less radical than that of the 1970s, programme commun-era PS, so the idea that he represents a ‘hard left’ tells you more about the rightwards lurch of the entire French spectrum than it does about him as a candidate.
Candidates of the hard left & hard right look to have captured well over half the vote in France's first round. The centre, broadly conceived, still commanded a majority in 2017.
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The deeper point is obviously that by trading our classically republican vocabulary of 'corruption' with a rigid positivist taxonomy of 'systems' and simply reserving the first for exotic foreign cases, we've actively impaired our capacity to understand crises of our democracies.
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A contemporary idea which would have really annoyed the hell out of Marx is the notion that poverty under capitalism is essentially an effect of 'exclusion', rather than a direct consequence of 'inclusion' into the market economy.
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Hitler's memories from working on a Viennese construction site before the war make all his hated co-workers sound very cool.
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Too many replies misunderstanding point of OP: idea is not that Russian oligarchs don’t deserve stronger labels like kleptocrats or other concepts, nor that Atlantic capitalists are the same, but ‘solely’ that it doesn’t make sense to reserve that label for Russian case.
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Remembering that moment in The Sopranos where the man who witnessed Tony doing a hit is reading... Nozick.
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People don't realize it but this is one of the best critiques of identity politics ever written
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Look what we have here
Brutal, and beautiful SUV vote data. Solid evidence that climate politics is not about culture war but class war. Seems that anyone who's wandered Paris even just for one Erasmus year ages ago could have predicted this exact result, down to the eight shades. h/t
@picharbonnier
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Just finished this classic and the news is rather bad, folks: turns out imperial decline can stretch across several centuries and involve infinite restorations and permutations. Looks like we’re in this for the long haul.
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Vienna in the 1920s was a wildly diverse place with immigrants from all over Eastern Europe and social democracy actually did stunningly well there. Clearly there is a correlation-causation issue here.
keep reading these awful threads about swedish racism and it makes me think the only thing that held stable social democracies together was ethnic homogeneity, and when the latter disappears so will the former
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Pretty much the entirety of nineteenth-century race science was constructed by men who graduated college.
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Looks like I just passed my digital PhD defense without corrections - that's not very 2020 at all.
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Truly one of the most shameful episodes in European intellectual history
The recent Hannah Arendt tributes made me think of the Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg. In 1959 Arendt torpedoed the publication of Hilberg's pioneering "The Destruction of the European Jews" with Princeton UP while using his material for her Eichmann articles w/o attribution.
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Striking how much of the current discourse on anti-vaxx sentiment is about the effects of misinformation and fake news but not about the decade-long individualization of the concept of health itself, clearly signalled by the yoga, self-med, and mental wellness craze.
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A contingent of US historians at Selma in 1965, including Richard Hofstadter, John Higham, William Leuchtenburg, and C. Vann Woodward. Not sure they’re all in the frame but they’re ready for King’s speech. Photo by no one less than — Dennis Hopper.
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Every intelligent 19th-c conservative knew that democracy was implicit in liberalism and socialism implicit in democracy - the entirety of Cold War political theory can be read as an attempt to construct a model of democracy that would escape from that chain of presuppositions.
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"The British employed an astrologer to tell them what Hitler's astrologer might be predicting to him."
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The US is like a dying star shooting the light of its cultural hegemony all across the universe.
Glasgow City will carry the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on their strip this season to honour the "feminist icon and role model".
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Barbarism & Civilization - René Georges Hermann-Paul, 'Le Cri de Paris', July 1899.
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"In his seminal essay Critique of Violence, Benjamin distinguishes between 'based' violence (divine violence) that belongs to the order of fate and justice, and 'cringe' violence that either founds or preserves the Law."
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(Non-vulgar) Marxism doesn’t claim that ‘all’ human decisions have economic motives but rather that economic structures impose constraints on human agency - within the parameters unexpected moves and decisions are still possible.
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Manuscript now done, so can confidently announce that this will be on sale in German bookstores early October
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Even when Marx was writing Capital there were more British workers employed as domestic servants than there were workers in factories - in the latter sense, capitalism has always been a majority service economy.
It is unclear to me then why anyone would object to the idea that labor and/or left strategy should start from a concrete analysis of the concrete situation: in terms of employment, ours is largely a service economy.
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1870, not 1914, seems like better parallel for what's happening - workers' movement underorganized, a declining power as France launches offensive war over the Rhine provinces to consolidate hegemony but ends up pushing remaining German states closer into the Bismarckian bloc.
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Tonight I will release a list with all the fruits which will and will not be available under socialism. It’s an interesting selection with a lot of controversial choices. DM me for more details.
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And they say the Soviet Union failed at consumerism
A Soviet kettle made in 1960s. The rockets start spinning when the kettle boils.
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B.B. King posing beneath a portrait of Lenin on his Soviet tour in the late 1970s.
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