Justin Theodra

PhD Candidate @ UConn Pol Sci, History and Theory of International Relations, International Historical Sociology, Indonesia and Southeast Asia

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Belated thank you to the wonderful team at Uconn and journal of philosophy and global affairs for publishing my review of Meliants and Bardos' 'Economic cycles and social movements'!!

https://t.co/LahEjghrNj

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'In the Indies, people only talk about coffee and sugar, and sugar and coffee' - Raden Saleh

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Big thanks to Intan Suwandi for inviting me to write a blog post for Marxist Sociology Blog!!

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Thanks to everyone who made this possible! Prof. Arat, the editors at ICT especially.

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@latecrisis Bourgeois revolution was not 'agency' in same way as socialist revs are. Still alienated.

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@fredleept word! will have to check that out!

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socialism. No more profit means no more contradiction between growth and equity; growth and well-being; growth and non-discrimination etc. How else did USSR become a competitor to the US? Iphone tech developed by Soviets. GPS developed in response to Soviets. Socialism makes it

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neighborhood class? A tutor is sent to her. She knows a job applying what she has learned waits if she wants it. No man can make her dependent. No child is stripped of their mother by a job. (5) investment goes OUT to the Central Asian periphery - is this imperialism??! Today

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unemployment, debt, childrearing. (3) rural collectivization caused problems but what happened after it was complete was stable high grain output free from merchant hoarding that gave freedom from hunger. (4) literacy campaigns smash advance of patriarchy. Mother can't make

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Global South and market socialists in the semi-periphery of the world system. Together they would impose a progressive ideological hegemony that would make room for challenging patriarchy and racism. Instead of ‘rural revitalization’ being led by mysoginistic and xenophobic

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differentials by oligopolistic transnational corporations. The economic basis of increased militarization of international affairs would thereby be depleted alongside that of endemic austerity in the Global North. New progressive blocs in the triad would have unprecedented room

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students, youth, and slumdwellers – would equalize national unit labour costs across the new socialist international division of labour. This would strike a blow to the heart of capitalist-imperialist profits and power centred on exploitation of national unit labour cost

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Democracy and feminism has been thought as 'imported' from the West, yet they have been inseparable parts of Indonesian anticolonial movements since early 20th century....

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@DanielDenvir Malcolm Caldwell's 'Indonesia an Alternative History', Tichelman's 'Social Evolution of Indonesia', Robinson's 'Rise of Capital', Robinson and Hadiz's 'Reorganizing Power in Indonesia', Tornquist's 'Dynamics of democratization', and Winters' 'Oligarchy'

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Process tracing vs historical materialism - history as a fixed causal chain, vs history as a fabric of causal chains interrelated - agents relative to history, vs history produced by agents