Nice, new review of Ricardo's Dream
"If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book"
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Next Tuesday 18th Nov, I'll be giving a free, online talk on imagination, models, and the making of economic knowledge for @economicresearch.bsky.social
Reserve a spot & find out more here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-econom...
I summarize one of the themes of my new book -- on how to rebuild the middle class -- in this NYT guest essay www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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No one other than Trump could have sabotaged American soft power and economy from within with such mass support. MAGA nuts cheering suspension of foreign student visas don’t know that foreign students subsidize American students.
If Edward Said was at Columbia today, he would have resigned in disgust or been dismissed on charges of anti Semitism.
Just as it did during the rise of the Nazis a century ago, the New York Times is twisting itself in knots to avoid calling fascists fascists. Germany’s AfD is not a “party that downplays Nazis.” It’s a neo-Nazi party.
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum.
It’s Open Access - dig in!
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Europe's leaders, like Canada's and Japan's, hitched careers and politics to the US as its cheerleaders/followers. With the US empire and economy caught in declines, G7 and NATO explode. Members now on their own, desperate. Sauve qui peut!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The degree of hate & personality cult that has seeped within India’s middle class is frightening. It is pulsating with rage, anger & hate. A country at war with its past & a state which has declared war on its own people and the people cheering that very war in name of nationalism.
Screenshot from article reporting survey that 61% prefer current levels of international students.
Time to stop playing politics with international students in the UK? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Academia has become a pyramid scheme tbh.
Kamala Harris’ fans with their “Trump is going to be worse for Palestine” should go throw themselves in a dumpster & never talk politics again. It was a genocide that sustained because of the cowardice & complicity of the Democrats. They deserve every trouncing they get.
The MAGA crowd vs the Trump supporting technocrats once again reveals the fundamental contradictions at the heart of neoliberalism. Identity politics riddled with cultural rhetoric is always fractured by class contradictions.
A lot of it has to do with the idea of “karma” fed to the masses through Hinduism. So poverty, being born in a low caste is the result of one’s previous birth’s karmas. And capitalism ensures perpetual penury.
In 1999, during the Kargil conflict, Israel met India’s need of precision bombs. Many in the Congress & almost everyone in the BJP were enthused by being on the same side as Israel post 9/11.
Yes, it started to change after the adoption of neoliberal reforms. Before that RAW & Mossad had regular contact since the 70’s. In fact, Golda Meir helped India get access to war supplies in 71. Long story short - Defence, trade, agriculture etc. before 2014 & complete support post 2014.
Every American President is a close friend of Modi until he is in power.
Not just “Indian fascists”, the Indian state as a whole has been fostering ties with Israel for a while now, irrespective of who’s in power. The Indian National Congress & the BJP are two sides of the same coin.
Apparently, American liberals moved here to create an echo chamber where all of them can convince each other that Kamala lost because she was a black woman & because white Christian Nationalism is on the rise, &
not because she was a pathetic candidate who had nothing to offer.
Masses only “endanger” democracy when they don’t vote for the Democratic Party. Apparently, masses must prove their democratic credentials by starving to death or due to lack of Medicare & supporting every war the Democrats foster in name of democracy.
It has to do with their leadership. All of them controlled by feudal elites. And the failure of the left to emerge as a vanguard.
India’s opposition will keep failing until it provides a radical, empowering vision to the working class majority of whom are lower castes. As long as it tries to cater to the same social coalition that supports the BJP, it’s bound to fail. Election results after election results have proved that.
India’s political analysts talk of nothing but secularism vs communalism, caste, & fascism. They have completely eschewed class analysis from their understanding of the BJP. That “sells” in their elite circles & promotes fear which keeps the grants coming but their analysis only helps the BJP.
Parasitic genocide-enabling billionaire hindutva fascist owner of the Haifa Port, and owner of israel-supplying drone factory in Hyderabad, as well as owner of Israel-supplying deep sea port Mundra, Indian Groucho Marx lookalike Gautam Adani gets indicted. We love to see it 🥰
Heh, We have liberals with their “Israel has a right to defend itself” takes for that. Remember how fun Twitter used to be a decade ago ?
Can’t use Soviet Era understanding of capitalism & fascism to counter 21st century fascist movements.
Marxist thought & theory in India has much become hostage to its archaic & increasingly irrelevant parliamentary left & has thus become static. Needs some radical rethinking to counter Hindutva.
