The most famous anti-Stalinist party was Catalan. The guy who killed Trotsky was Catalan. Frantz Fanon's mentor? Catalan. The only foreign official in North Korea? Catalan. Some claim that Engels knew a bit of Catalan. We are behind every leftist tendency.

Recordeu tots quan ens van intentar vendre que un nano que s'havia llegit la pàgina de la Viquipèdia de Milton Friedman a l'hora del pati seria el nou Prat de la Riba i va resultar que simplement sabia utilitzar el traductor de Google? Perquè jo hi penso de tant en tant.

*underlying

The fact that Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of gender-affirming surgeries per year while being aggressively homophobic has an underllying logic but it's still kinda crazy to me

A Question For The Brodernists: I don't want to criticise people for being multilingual (I speak a few languages myself) and for doing their job, but isn't it a bit weird that the same guy has translated brodernist novels from THREE different languages? Like how good can they be

Was Maggie a dengist or was Deng a thatcherite

Em flipa que existeixi la foto d’un paio amb el seu gos observant el moment exacte en què cau l’última de les 4 columnes de Puig i Cadafalch a Montjuïc. Enderrocades el 1928 pel dictador Primo de Rivera, que va eliminar sistemàticament tots els símbols públics de catalanisme.

Catalunya, de nou, catalunyejant: fins i tot quan espanyolegem una mica i el tema del dia és de la premsa del cor hem de voler ser millor que els espanyols i tot acaba anant sobre política (ergo, del PSC).

@LarryAlbertGil Beckert is a lightweight. A bourgeois historian par excellence.

@oikeios have you gone over your thoughts re Beckert & New History of Capitalism in any article? Do you have any texts in mind that you would recommend as a counterpoint?

Going to dive into Beckert's mammoth soon. I have many intelligent oomfies here, so does anyone have any recs on what to read to balance/counter Beckert? I guess Braudel+Wallerstein is the obvious one, but I also want Marxist counterpoints (please no EM Wood/early Brenner).

When I was 15 I decided I needed to start reading serious literature. I bought and read Ulysses in 20 days. I understood like 5% of it but it threw me into a long obsession with modernist literature and Irish history that eventually led to me living in these isles.

The mailman was like "omg this is heavy" that's because he didn't know it is the biggest publication month of this year for historyheads 🫡

Rewatching Tarkovksy because I miss that afterglow of bourgeois high culture that could only have been achieved in a deformed workers' state

Pedro Costa: "Bresson is very good in an iPhone." IMAGES BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

Imagina't basar la teva presència online en seguir un equip amb una identitat que odies sense que ningú t'hi forci. No m'entrarà mai al cap.

I have a visceral hate for Hindutva. I have Kashmiri and Muslim Indian friends who have genuinely suffered under Hindutva, but this is not what this seems to be about.

I don't think it should take being that one friend that is too woke to be appalled at how normalised anti-Indian hate on the internet is now

Born to organise a Das Kapital seminar at Nanterre University in the 1960s, forced to be a teaching assistant at the University of Glasgow

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People look at my pale ass and my red-ish hair in this way when I tell them that I'm not northern European and that I'm in fact half Cuban