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enzo rossi
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Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 1d
It’s fine if we’re talking about change mechanism and whether they could work today, yes. But just appealing to past glories is also something people do.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 1d
A thing I don’t love about the Left—l do this myself sometimes—is appealing to how we used to do things as an argument for what we should do now: “When we were strong we did stuff like this”. Nostalgia is borderline conservatism. It’s tempting, but no. The way forward is through.
Historical Materialism conference lanyard

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Jacobin Nederland @jacobinnl.bsky.social · 5d
Een week geleden werd BIJ1 met een kater wakker. Het was de antikapitalistische en dekoloniale partij niet gelukt om de in 2023 verloren zetel terug te winnen? Piet Rietman keek tijdens de campagne mee achter de schermen. Hij bespreekt
de uitgagingen en en afwegingen van de partijleiding en leden.
5000 leden, 250.000 flyers, en toch geen zetel voor BIJ1: een reconstructie – Jacobin
Een week geleden werd BIJ1 met een kater wakker. Het was de antikapitalistische en dekoloniale partij niet gelukt om de in 2023 verloren zetel terug te winnen. <i>Jacobin</i>-redacteur Piet Rietman ke...
jacobin.nl

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 7d
In case Zohran's just too exciting for you, here's our room-temperature take on last week's Dutch election: jacobin.com/2025/11/neth...
The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebra...
jacobin.com

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 7d
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders.

Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
jacobin.com

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Jacobin Nederland @jacobinnl.bsky.social · 7d
Links begon de verkiezingscampagne van 2025 verdeeld en onzeker over haar eigen stem, en dat werd duidelijk zichtbaar in de uitslag.

Lees op onze vernieuwde website⤵️
jacobin.nl/links-behaal...
Links behaalde het slechtste verkiezingsresultaat ooit. Dit is waarom. – Jacobin
In binnen- en buitenland werd opgelucht ademgehaald toen D66 als winnaar uit de stembus kwam. Toch is er nog alle reden tot zorg. Linkse partijen in Nederland behaalden het slechtste resultaat ooit en...
jacobin.nl

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 7d
Sulle elezioni olandesi della settimana scorsa:
Il malessere olandese - Jacobin Italia
Nei Paesi Bassi l'estrema destra di Willders si ferma, a vantaggio dei liberali. Ma la sinistra olandese ha ottenuto il suo peggior risultato di sempre. Ecco perché.
jacobinitalia.it

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14d
“I don’t know if melancholy is the gaze that allows you to see how rotten everything is, or the inability to see beyond that rottenness. If it’s the first, it can be salvaged. If it’s the second, I agree with the futurists.”

illstarredletter.substack.com/p/cheer-up-l...
Cheer up liberated little girl blue
Should the left reject melancholy? A few thoughts for your Monday, whatever shade it may be.
illstarredletter.substack.com

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 17d
Quite a few shows about burying yourself in a controlled environment underground lately: Severance, Fallout, The Silo. The Good Place, sort of. The empire is feeling the pinch.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17d
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 17d
People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 27d
Dutch cinema is not in great state but this is an excellent film: technically accomplished, a narration that makes the most of moving images as a medium. Keep an eye on this director.
Rietland

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 12
Mokum tegen fascisme
Counter-demo in Amsterdam

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Oct 11
Amen
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Oct 11
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · Oct 7
Super excited about this one ✊🏼

www.altrlab.org/latest/marx-...

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 2
“Man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does” -Nietzsche
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Oct 2
“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Oct 2
“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
It’s amazing. They try to appease them every which way. They gave them Brexit and look at Farage now. They never learn a thing

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
Yes, but that's only 50% of the picture:
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enzoreds.bsky.social enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
*Macron, ugh

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Barthes... need I go on? See here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...
The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon
It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...
thephilosophicalsalon.com

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
Here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...
The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon
It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...
thephilosophicalsalon.com

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
That said I very much agree with the last point he makes in that quote. It's just that he sometimes underestimates how hard it is to do that

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
I do think Cohen was too flippant about ideology. One sees this in KTMH already, and I think that was the seed of his moralistic downfall later

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Oct 1
My review of Shmuel Nili's intriguing new book (though some of the cases he discusses are, er, dated): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Nili, Shmuel. Philosophizing the Indefensible: Strategic Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. $105.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Oct 1
Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Sep 30
There is a lib vibe in elite Anglo universities and their epigones. That’s the plausible version of that sort of claim, or rather the plausible premise from which it trivially follows.

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Sep 30
Sure analytic philosophy is small
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Sep 30
What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.