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Conference on political capitalism Budapest 15-16 May Call for papers afse.fr/global/gene/li…

Associate Professor of Philosophy Gabriel Rockhill Lecture: The Imperial Theory Industry & the Compatible Left Intelligentsia" "Marcuse's organization amassed a treasure trove of information on the global communist movement and, quote, "the most important customer of this

How to harass your servants with class open.substack.com/pub/yasha/p/ho…

Pope Francis obituaries in The New York Times, Washington Post, AP, and USA Today all ignored his advocacy for Gaza

Excerpts from "Capitalismo. Nada más. El futuro del sistema que domina el mundo." Branko Milanovic. inep.org/index.php?view…

Everyone outside after the earthquake in Istanbul

"Visions of inequality" published in Portuguese/Brazilian and Serbian translations

Ideological & social confusion in post-Communist Russia is reaching new heights. When the Emperor pronunciad on matters of religion it could be at least justified by the appeal to tradition. But when a former head of secret police expounds on the Christian religion it becomes a

Christian churches are becoming a parody. American mega-churches with pastors whose knowledge of the Bible is very dubious & who certainly do not speak Hebrew or Greek celebrate enrichment and hatred of the poor. Russian orthodox church celebrates secret police. Anglican

»Die Globalisierung 1.0 führte zu einer Zunahme der Ungleichheit zwischen den Ländern, die Globalisierung 2.0 zu ihrem Rückgang. Gleichzeitig verstärkten sich die Ungleichheiten innerhalb der Nationalstaaten«, schreibt der Ökonom Branko Milanovic. jacobin.de/artikel/global…

People who discuss communist federations should at least make an effort to learn the legal administrative organization of these countries. The status of California is not the same as that of Guam, nor is Chicago a state. I read an article by Sheri Berman who mixed up Chechnya

The problem is this. Self-determination vs. territorial integrity. Normally, (2) dominates (1). But once you let (1) dominate (2), then you open the Pandora's box for many self-determinations dominating state territorial integrity.

The problem is the same as in 1919. Wilson proclaimed the rule of self-determination, but of course that rule did not apply to the non-Europeans and within Europe did not apply to Germans. You cannot come up with an ostensibly general rules & then break it at the first

East Germany also, through the exercise of self-determination joined West Germany. Or Saar after WW2 by an exercise of self-determination joined FRG.

The legal situation of the 4 oblasts claimed by Russia was different. They were the 3rd administrative level within Ukraine: oblasts and not autonomous republics. So far no such unit (3rd administrative level) had become independent. So their claim is much weaker than Crimea's.

Of course, you can argue that no subtleties of this kind at all matter & that everything should be decided by force. Then obviously, nothing matters.

The West wants to have rule 1 for situation A, and then rule 2 for equivalent situation A'. It is called a rules-based global order. It is a good term. "Rules" is in plural. For every situation there is a different, convenient, rule.

Tonight’s Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Public Library Frontlines lecture by Branko Milanovic is sold out - really looking forward to his talk and our conversation.