Ram Ramgopal

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@TheStalwart @Havelock_AI Did you analyze the English translation or the original (Latin?). Is it the structure of modern papal Latin that's forcing the literacy...?

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@TheStalwart Ask your favorite LLM please. Gemini for one gave a much better answer than anything in the comments.

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@NewLeftEViews Why is Anderson Marxist?
Any significant works in the last 30 years where he uses the lens of class struggle, need for praxis etc?

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@jburnmurdoch "not relevant"! - The causalities are difficult to establish, and just the graphical comparisons with NL and US are not sufficient at all (very different populations and economies). And comparisons with other "HE expanding" countries are not fair, the levels are so different

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@NewLeftEViews There was a fun debate about whether Podemos and Syriza and the likes were genuinely socialist... Or just social democratic.

Another cool one was whether a Corbyn govt should debt finance or just print money

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@RajaKorman David Gilmour is cool too - successful guitarist career but found time to spend at the archives between concerts and groupies in order to hate fest on Italian unification

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@NewLeftEViews @adam_tooze AT - Lots of data everyday, yes, articles and podcasts too - "prestige content" - but unfortunately a lot of territory and not a map.

"in medias res every hour" - how can one think?

But yes sneaking in Marxist stuff to the WEF crowd and those truth to power moments are cool

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@evgenymorozov Used ChatGPT to understand what you are talking about - what all those big (small) words mean (realm, action, instrument, values...). Turned out to be simple everyday concepts that could have been explained without philo mumbo jumbo. Ty sama for this sneak peak into big debates

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@NewLeftEViews The EU-India share seems greater than every single member state-India share. Is that possible?

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@NewLeftEViews @oliverwkim What's the best reference to understand this "Gowan/Anderson framework"? Thx

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@yohaniddawela What's FUA

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@TheStalwart Request to kindly take a break from moving the market by the trillions

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@re_colston Tooze has barely talked about organized activism, his brief ends with policy debates, campaigns and articles. There's no collective / mass organization, only a hope that the left Dems will one day do good things (if not Trump when hands are forced like COVID w.r.t climate)

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@ryxcommar It manages customer relations

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@leninology Isn't "polycrisis" itself theoryladden? It even has class bias in its origins - as a certain intellectual program.

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@leninology Well, there's tension within Marx - between theory and praxis. He wrote the Manifesto in 1848 after all. Praxis needs action now, but theory to be right needs distance from the present. In media res is needed, hence NLR has Sidecar now?

[Ram Ramgopal @bemused3018]

@adam_tooze And last - wish you answered some of Anderson's concrete critique. About Hitler never really trying to compete with US as per facts (contra your claims), role of Vietnam war in inflation and financialization, ... Hardly cosplay

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@adam_tooze A manifesto. Ended with a flourish. Marx btw rarely wrote History, except in the 18th Brumaire timeframe, and journalistic pieces. History was data for him to study historical materialism. 11th thesis of Feuerbach in the end is in media res and History is mere scholastic Marxism?

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@adam_tooze Extrapolating from your Kalecki podcast, you being Keynesian in the end is equal to being Marxist via Kalecki

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@adam_tooze Hotel chain and nut supply chain capitalism being different - will the Fed raising rate by 2% affect both? Why?