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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University; Running interview series @thenation; Views are my own—RTs ≠ endorsements

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'Even in the postwar decades, even when the direct and lived memory of the fascism was most alive, in most of Europe there was not a harmonious ‘antifascist consensus’ shared uniformly across political sides, still less throughout the population.' tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/ve-day…

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Now on FirstView: Race in Marshall’s economics? Colin Danby examines how Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior in Britain bit.ly/3Q47gu0

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Heading to France to tie up loose ends in the archives for my almost completed-finally--book. Sure hope PSG win's CL while I'm there.

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Forthcoming from Chicago UP: "Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975" by Ryan L. Allen: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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“he resembles Francis in his commitment to the poor and migrants and to meeting people where they are. He told the Vatican’s official news” nytimes.com/live/2025/05/0…

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Maybe embattled liberal democracies should look, of all places, to the Catholic Church for how to successfully resist rightwing forces

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Pope Leo XIII was known as the “social pope” or the “labor pope,” and his encyclical Rerum novarum made the case for a just wage, and that the earth is for the benefit of all.

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Marx taught that a reactionary document in its time could become, in the future, a revolutionary one (referring to the Spanish constitution of 1812). This I think is true of Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum, which was as much anti socialist as it was a socialized of capital, but… 1/3

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“Eighty years ago today, Europe celebrated the defeat of fascism after a titanic struggle. Yet as historian Enzo Traverso points out, the latest anniversary of VE Day comes at a moment when the far right is stronger than at any point since 1945.” jacobin.com/2025/05/ve-day…

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The struggle against Nazism in France was also a struggle against homegrown reactionary forces embodied in the Vichy regime. Eight decades after a seemingly decisive defeat, the heirs of Vichy are banging at the gates of power in Paris. jacobin.com/2025/05/europe…