Shawn :D

College Student, Aspiring Historian, Current Obsessions =Pacific + Atlantic ruling classes, global history of Islamism, and early modern absolutism

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Skeleton Key for postwar US history imo. Take some time to read the descriptions; every detail is pretty revelatory.

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Cumings on class fractions of US Empire (20th c):
1) Eastern capital capable of competing globally; favored state sovereignty, international orgs & economic integration
2) Weaker sunbelt capital; hoped to maintain itself thru more direct imperialism modeled after Indian Wars

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

I cannot get this New York Times headline from yesterday out of my head. One important form of propaganda is subtly lying about who is the attacking aggressor and who is framed as merely “responding.”

[🔎 @graslandenjoyer]

Mohammed is currently recovering from sickness and his family is experiencing great hardship amidst the continued siege on supplies and aggressions from the occupation. Please please donate and share! https://t.co/X10uyTL9aJ

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

I've long maintained that the abolition of the caliphate was historically regressive -- South Asian Muslims were cooking with the Khilafat movement.

[Woland 🇵🇸 @stendhalist]

Islamists: We need to RETVRN to the Caliphate

The last Caliph: Buddha & Confucius were Prophets just like Muhammed COEXIST 🫶 ☪️✝️☦️✡️☸️

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

@nishanciefendi What courses are you teaching?

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

@sobernsleepless V based mute list ngl -- Gen Z has just become a term for ineffective movements with roots in the middle class atp

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Great stuff on the roots of New World Quaker abolitionism in the anti-capitalism of modest artisans and workers (from Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause)

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

@agpenis There's a point at which one tires of these map bros

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Makes sense -- that generation of scholars was forged amidst the energetic left-wing activism of the 60s. I think this also partly visible in scholarship -- a lot of works by that generation display much more influence from the Marxian tradition, even if unconscious

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

I've been on campus in some capacity for almost all of the last 33 years, and it seems like I met way more "my way or the highway" die-hard lefties <2005 when boomers were still in the driver's seat. Anyone who thinks academia has moved left must've had a sheltered 1990s.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

A genuinely progressive abolition of China’s hukou system would mean not only allowing people to move freely around the country, but also a dramatic leveling up of social protections so that one need not live in a rich megacity to enjoy quality services. https://t.co/n5v5gPbJni

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

The KKK was v widespread & rivalled the AFL in membership. A final interesting argument is that MacLean identifies the KKK as the equivalent of European fascism, noting shared ideologies, contemporaries who made the connection, & KKK members who joined fascist organizations. /3

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

One of the best books on the 2nd KKK -- emphasizes that its membership primarily came from downwardly mobile members of the Protestant petty bourgeoisie & expressed hostility towards both big capital, often racialized as Catholic or Jewish, as well as labor. /1

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

KKK members organized boycotts of department stores that threatened small businesses, but they mostly sought to secure their position by pushing down w vigilante violence in service of suppressing labor activism, reinforcing white supremacy, & restoring patriarchal authority. /2

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Nancy MacLean (author of the book I shared) actually makes that argument -- highlighting a shared commitment to reactionary anti-elitism, the common identification of the Klan with that label, as well as the fact many Klan members would go on to participate in fascist orgs

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

@ContingentWest It's interesting that the Second Klan is not typically viewed as the American counterpart to European Fascism.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

The more this Bidenist idea of a ceasefire, the invention of the post-October 7th world where a ceasefire means Israel can still do whatever it wants forever but no one can respond, is picked apart bit-by-bit, the more the world can potentially return to some semblance of sanity.

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

"Apart from exacerbating communal divisions, what partition really accomplished was the replacement of an electorally limited but vibrant multi-party politics by what in effect was a one-party state." -- Wow, great stuff from Devji

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

Notwithstanding that this is a rather-unoriginal article, the author seems to be oblivious of the repressive nature of the state. Attaching a few bits from Faisal Devji's review of Madhav Khosla's book, in case they are of any use. (2/2)

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Iran's military announces that the strikes against Israel tonight were in retaliation for continued violations of the ceasefire in south Lebanon and in south Beirut, warning that if Israel expands its attacks or retaliates against Iran, there will be "far more crushing" blows.

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

Plz support Mahmoud. It's v urgent as there is only 1 day left for rent payment

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Looks great: “Private contracts for reconstruction projects were lucrative, unregulated and largely led to the further degradation of infrastructure and immiseration of the occupied territories. Corruption and neoliberal accumulation thrived.”: https://t.co/61o9EAsKAd

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

@agpenis So was I -- lowkey getting fomo rn lol

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Unironically a really hilarious juxtaposition

[Tejasvi Nagaraja @TejNagaraja]

American past — manufacturing future

🤔

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

@j1hadiprincess Is Psychoanalysis and Feminism a a good place to start with Mitchell? Also where should one start w Copjec?