Alex Krüger
@alexkruger.bsky.social
Impersonally dominated PhD candidate in (sports) law @ Umeå University
Project: Club Law and Capitalism
Marxism as critical (legal) theory
Project: Club Law and Capitalism
Marxism as critical (legal) theory
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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En artikel jag skrivit. Jag visar hur Försäkringskassan styrde anställda för att minimera deras dåliga samvete över att behöva göra fler avslag på ansökningar om sjukpenning.
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Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience
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November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
En artikel jag skrivit. Jag visar hur Försäkringskassan styrde anställda för att minimera deras dåliga samvete över att behöva göra fler avslag på ansökningar om sjukpenning.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Giving a guest lecture on the fetish in Marx today based on my forthcoming book. Happy to guest lecture in your class on this or the fetish in Lukacs, Adorno or Lefebvre.
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Giving a guest lecture on the fetish in Marx today based on my forthcoming book. Happy to guest lecture in your class on this or the fetish in Lukacs, Adorno or Lefebvre.
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Second nature once again trumps first nature, or what all the new work on Marxist ecology can still learn from Alfred Schmidt
In a year of depressing graphics, this one is close to the worst.
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Second nature once again trumps first nature, or what all the new work on Marxist ecology can still learn from Alfred Schmidt
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Proffsig kartläggning Redox gjort av danska Aktivklubb. redox.dk/nyheder/ny-k...
Ny kortlægning: Her er den nazistiske kampsportsklub, som PET advarer imod - Researchkollektivet Redox
Det er tirsdag den 26. august. Det er en mild sommeraften. På en stor parkeringsplads i Gladsaxe står fire unge mænd og snakker. En bil parkerer, og en ung mand stiger ud. Han slutter sig til de fire ...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Proffsig kartläggning Redox gjort av danska Aktivklubb. redox.dk/nyheder/ny-k...
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BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
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a 'ceasefire', where one side has an overwhelming military advanage, almost total effective control of the territory and arrogates itself the ability to declare when the 'ceasefire' has been breached, to which it can respond with military violence.
Great.
Great.
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
a 'ceasefire', where one side has an overwhelming military advanage, almost total effective control of the territory and arrogates itself the ability to declare when the 'ceasefire' has been breached, to which it can respond with military violence.
Great.
Great.
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Ingen kan hädanefter ta neostalinisten Domenico Losurdo på allvar efter Ross Wolfs grundliga nagelfarning. Två delar publicerade, en tredje på gång: newintermag.com/against-losu...
Against Losurdo
His intellectual output constitutes nothing less than the (re)entry of Stalinism into the realm of philosophy.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Ingen kan hädanefter ta neostalinisten Domenico Losurdo på allvar efter Ross Wolfs grundliga nagelfarning. Två delar publicerade, en tredje på gång: newintermag.com/against-losu...
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The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Bourgeois Legal Forms: From Marx (1875) to the Cultural Revolution in China (1975) — John Milios
John Milios on the importance of addressing the issue of capitalist legal forms in a socialist society as a prerequisite for examining class conflicts and socioeconomic transformations in socialist…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
Final chapter: Capitalist Clubs and Communist Conclaves
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Final chapter: Capitalist Clubs and Communist Conclaves
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We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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October 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
tinyurl.se/crR
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And please order it for your library when you can: brill.com/display/titl.... A cheaper paperback will be out in like March 2027.
brill.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And please order it for your library when you can: brill.com/display/titl.... A cheaper paperback will be out in like March 2027.
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Our (with @ncgeehan.bsky.social) piece on #UEFA/#FIFA's failure to sanction the #Israel Football Association is out @josimarfootball.bsky.social.
We argue that they are unethical in the name of neutrality, applying unjustifiable double standards to Russia & Israel, & failing to enforce their rules.
We argue that they are unethical in the name of neutrality, applying unjustifiable double standards to Russia & Israel, & failing to enforce their rules.
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
By @ncgeehan.bsky.social and @antoineduval.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
By @ncgeehan.bsky.social and @antoineduval.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
josimarfootball.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Our (with @ncgeehan.bsky.social) piece on #UEFA/#FIFA's failure to sanction the #Israel Football Association is out @josimarfootball.bsky.social.
We argue that they are unethical in the name of neutrality, applying unjustifiable double standards to Russia & Israel, & failing to enforce their rules.
We argue that they are unethical in the name of neutrality, applying unjustifiable double standards to Russia & Israel, & failing to enforce their rules.
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What are the best histories of banking?
October 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What are the best histories of banking?
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Är med i podden Starta pressarna och pratar om min bok "Vad hände med arbetarklassen" med @danielsuhonen.bsky.social och @elisabethlindberg.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Är med i podden Starta pressarna och pratar om min bok "Vad hände med arbetarklassen" med @danielsuhonen.bsky.social och @elisabethlindberg.bsky.social
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Qatar's labour market shrank after the World Cup.
Recruiters in Doha are now targeting migrant workers to serve on the Ukrainian front for Putin’s army.
Story from Doha for @josimarfootball.bsky.social with @bobbyperu.bsky.social.
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Recruiters in Doha are now targeting migrant workers to serve on the Ukrainian front for Putin’s army.
Story from Doha for @josimarfootball.bsky.social with @bobbyperu.bsky.social.
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The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com
For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Qatar's labour market shrank after the World Cup.
Recruiters in Doha are now targeting migrant workers to serve on the Ukrainian front for Putin’s army.
Story from Doha for @josimarfootball.bsky.social with @bobbyperu.bsky.social.
josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...
Recruiters in Doha are now targeting migrant workers to serve on the Ukrainian front for Putin’s army.
Story from Doha for @josimarfootball.bsky.social with @bobbyperu.bsky.social.
josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...
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Comrade @rafeefz.bsky.social once again showing how to do incisive materialist analysis of Palestine.
It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'.
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It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'.
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Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza’s future: what a leaked plan tells us about US regional strategy
A glossy 38-page plan for the redevelopment of Gaza envisages a futuristic mix of smart manufacturing, luxury resorts and the ‘voluntary relocation’ of Palestinians.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Comrade @rafeefz.bsky.social once again showing how to do incisive materialist analysis of Palestine.
It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'.
theconversation.com/donald-trump...
It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'.
theconversation.com/donald-trump...
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Ny bok ute! I ”samtida Marxistisk teori” introduceras 37 (!) samtida marxister av 42 (!) skribenter. Själv har jag skrivit om David Harvey.
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ny bok ute! I ”samtida Marxistisk teori” introduceras 37 (!) samtida marxister av 42 (!) skribenter. Själv har jag skrivit om David Harvey.
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SÄSONGSPREMIÄR!
Ingen kan få nog av @sorenmau.bsky.social, så nu kommer det en timme om hans kommande bok. Fram med anteckningsblocken glasögonormar!
Ingen kan få nog av @sorenmau.bsky.social, så nu kommer det en timme om hans kommande bok. Fram med anteckningsblocken glasögonormar!
S09E01 - Till utopismens försvar
Vi sparkar igång vår nionde säsong med den danske filosofen och författaren Søren Mau, som just nu arbetar på en bok om kommunismen. Vilka är argumenten för respektive emot utopiskt tänkande? Och hur
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September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
SÄSONGSPREMIÄR!
Ingen kan få nog av @sorenmau.bsky.social, så nu kommer det en timme om hans kommande bok. Fram med anteckningsblocken glasögonormar!
Ingen kan få nog av @sorenmau.bsky.social, så nu kommer det en timme om hans kommande bok. Fram med anteckningsblocken glasögonormar!
If you are into forms of org, this intervention by Neel has been stuck in my head for few days. It links question of concrete organizing to ”the” question of organization (what it even is). Well worth checking out imo
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
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Theory of the Party • Ill Will
Phil A. Neel on the invariant features of communist revolutionary organization.
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September 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If you are into forms of org, this intervention by Neel has been stuck in my head for few days. It links question of concrete organizing to ”the” question of organization (what it even is). Well worth checking out imo
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
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Granskar överlappningar mellan högerextremism och huliganism med @eigil.bsky.social @crj138.bsky.social.
www.etc.se/story/saa-ta...
www.etc.se/story/saa-ta...
Så tar nazistiska Aktivklubb sig in i supporterkulturen
Tränar med fotbollsfans • Huliganen: ”Jag är nationalsocialist.”
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September 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Granskar överlappningar mellan högerextremism och huliganism med @eigil.bsky.social @crj138.bsky.social.
www.etc.se/story/saa-ta...
www.etc.se/story/saa-ta...
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Idag kom antologin Samtida marxistisk teori från tryckeriet. Ett hundra tusen tack till alla medverkande och till bokförlaget Daidalos! www.bokus.com/bok/97891717...
Samtida marxistisk teori av Evelina Johansson Wilén, Lotte Schack, Carl Wilén, Johan Örestig Kling (Bok)
Efter decennier av nyliberal dominans och i kölvattnet av återkommande ekonomiska, sociala och ekologiska kriser har marxismen åter trätt fram som en gravitationspunkt för den samtida samhällsdebat...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Idag kom antologin Samtida marxistisk teori från tryckeriet. Ett hundra tusen tack till alla medverkande och till bokförlaget Daidalos! www.bokus.com/bok/97891717...