Samuel Brander

History @helsinkiuni

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

I reviewed an a new anthology on the antifascism of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland 1920-1950 in the latest Ny Tid, the old Swedish language newspaper of the Finnish Communist party (or strictly speaking the SKDL). A lot of interesting stuff on minorities and antifascism

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@mangan54b @LudwigUller Herregud, läs en bok istället för att använda Grok. Här får du ett tips, om du mot förmodan skulle vilja lära dig något om Gramsci i hans idéhistoriska och politiska kontext.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@mangan54b @LudwigUller Gramsci trodde inte på ”progressiva vänster-idéer”, utan på socialistisk revolution som resultat av arbetarrörelsens klasskamp. Den variant av hans tänkande du presenterar är en (för att vara generös mot dig) karikatyr av invecklade debatter i Komintern om socialistisk strategi.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@mangan54b @LudwigUller Det är alldeles fantastiskt hur lite förståelse för kontexter och europeiska idétraditioner en ”konservativ” kan ha, om du tror att Mp har något att göra med italienska kommunister på 1920- och 1930-talet.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@mangan54b @LudwigUller Lol, Gramsci var politiskt sätt en på de flesta sätt konventionell leninist, som råkade skriva en del saker om italiensk kulturhistoria. Han har inget att göra med den form av amerikanska kulturkrig mellan vänsterliberaler och konservativa du är engagerad i.

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Please make it stop

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@SmittenLilith @RepMarx1890 @POLREWK0M Ok cool

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Great archive of Mao Zedong declaring the victory of the revolution in 1949! There were many joyful faces in Lahore!

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Today, NATO will be awarded the International Peace of Westphalia Prize. The jury is 11 men, including Friedrich Merz and the literal Prince of Prussia and Head of the House of Hohenzollern.
https://t.co/YQt5cl5Je1

[Rafael Хачатурян @rafkhach]

I oppose the death penalty in general. I also generally think that if the state fails to exact its ultimate retribution upon you, it is obligated to let you go. You had your chance guys, there is no third try.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@FilipSeiman @LudwigUller Menar du att Maté, en nordamerikansk jude som förhåller sig kritiskt till användandet av antisemitism-anklagelser som ett politiskt slagträ mot kritiker av Israel, förtjänar att kvävas?

[Csaba Tóth 🇸🇴 @tothcsabatibor]

British television now actively prepares the public to stomach a situation in which NATO is at a hot war with Russia using second-hand former politicians.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@pkgandakin I don’t think you’re entirely wrong, it would be an event of enormous significance in Europe. But to say ”someone willing to stand up to Trump for the first time” in some general global sense seems obviously incorrect.

[Nicholas Whithorn  @NickWhithorn]

Italian Prosecutors to continue investigation into Ustica disaster of 1980 in which 81 people died when Itavia DC-9 crashed, presumably after being hit by missile fired by a military jet, following decision of French government to cooperate with inquiries.
https://t.co/yddgMduhLL

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Congrats @GuilhotNicolas for writing one of the most important recent books

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

This is one of the few times I think Norm is off the mark. His justified moral outrage has led to some confusion. Genocides usually take place amidst wars. It's quite unusual that they take place outside of them.

Arno Mayer convincingly argues that the Nazi Holocaust arose out of the failure of the Nazi military campaign against the USSR. The inability to defeat Soviet power led the Nazi regime to take out its rage on the Jews, who "embodied" Bolshevism in the Nazi imagination.

Essentially this same logic is at work in the Gaza Genocide. Israel's inability to decisively defeat Hamas and the lack of mass expulsion meant that the war strategy necessarily became eliminating the lifeblood of Hamas - the Palestinian ppl of Gaza. Norm frames Hamas casualties as byproducts of the slaughter of civilians. Rather, the slaughter of civilians is exactly how Israel sought to defeat Hamas. This logic underlies all efforts to destroy the fabric of Gazan society. It's an ultra radicalized form of counter insurgency.

[David Broder @broderly]

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is polling *far* better than in 2022: even though he eventually scored 22% his polling was in the low teens until three weeks before the election, and never reached this high.

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@posadasherself

[Samuel Brander @sgbrande]

@posadasherself This PhD-thesis from 2021 might be of interest. It’s written from a very particular conceptual history-perspective though.