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Antroposen çağında devrimci küçülme

Revolutionary degrowth in the Anthropocene - Peter Boyle
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Revolutionary degrowth in the Anthropocene
Peter Boyle — Any significant revolutionary change that takes place this century will have to do so amid catastrophic global climate change.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Türkiye’de konut politikası ve şehir plancıları 1960-1980

Turkish urban professionals and the politics of housing 1960-1980 - Bülent Batuman
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November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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UTOPIA: Kentsel ekososyalizm modeli

Mexico City’s UTOPIAs — a Model of Urban Ecosocialism in Practice - Ashwin Ravikumar
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Mexico City’s UTOPIAs — a Model of Urban Ecosocialism in Practice
Imagine that in the poorest neighborhoods of Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago, you could find a public park with glistening swimming pools, world-class
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November 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Different Battles, Same Struggle: The U.S. War On China, Venezuela, and the International Left
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Different Battles, Same Struggle: The U.S. War On China, Venezuela, and the International Left
Everywhere you look, the United States is at war– at home, through military occupation of cities, institutional violence, and state-sanctioned
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November 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class - Johan Alfonsson
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İsveç sosyal demokratları işçi sınıfını nasıl terk etti?

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How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Toplumcu Belediyecilik Okumaları #3

Türkiyede kentsel politikanın ortaya çıkışı ve bir toplumsal aktör olarak kentleşme uzmanları (1965-1977) - Bülent Batuman, Praksis 12, s.163-191.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Sosyalist yükseliş dağınık ama yine de oligarşiye bir darbe - Cihan Tuğal www.evrensel.net/yazi/98036/s...
Sosyalist yükseliş dağınık ama yine de oligarşiye bir darbe - Cihan Tuğal - Evrensel
Bir yanda cinsel tacizciler, diktatörler, hırsızlar, milyarderler… Diğer yanda ezilen kesimlerin geniş bir cephesi. Çoğunluk, tercihini ikincisinden yana...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Toplumcu Belediyecilik Okumaları #2

Toplumcu Bir Belediyecilik Modeli:"Yeni Belediyecilik Hareketi" 1973-1977 - Bülent Batuman
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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As Neoliberalism Crumbles, It Becomes More Destructive

Interview with Branko Milanovic

Milanovic is one of the sharpest critics of global inequality. He spoke to Jacobin about how the decline of neoliberal globalization is harshening its most destructive tendencies.
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As Neoliberalism Crumbles, It Becomes More Destructive
Economist Branko Milanovic is one of the sharpest critics of global inequality. He spoke to Jacobin about how the decline of neoliberal globalization is harshening its most destructive tendencies.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Zohran’s Promise

"The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the city is ours to make."

Nikhil Pal Singh
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Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine
The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Zohran Mamdani nasıl kazandı? Bu zafer ne anlama geliyor? Bundan sonrası ne olacak?
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Jacobin'den Eric Blanc'ın yazısından hareketle 2 dakikada anlatan bir sunum hazırladım NotebookLM'de.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Points the Way Forward
A democratic socialist wasn’t supposed to be able to win a major office like New York City mayor over the objections of billionaires. Yet Zohran Mamdani and the movement behind him built a campaign fa...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Toplumcu Belediyecilik okumaları #1

Toplumcu Belediye kitapçığı 1977

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November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Why Soviet Economic Reform Couldn’t Save the System - Mike Haynes
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November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday - Stuart Elden
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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday
In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Ex…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Karl Marx’ın I. Enternasyonal kuruluş konuşması ve Geçici Tüzük notları - çev. Ali Çakıroğlu
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Karl Marx’ın I. Enternasyonal kuruluş konuşması ve Geçici Tüzük notları
Enternasyonal sosyalizm arşivinden seçmeleri, en anlamlı, günümüze silik değil en parlak ışık tutabilecek bir katmanla, Marx’ın I. Enternasyonal kuruluş konuşması ve Geçici Tüzük notlarıyla başlatıyor...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Piyasa korkusu: Türkiye'de sosyal demokrat belediyeciliğin ideolojik dönüşümü
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Piyasa korkusu: Türkiye'de sosyal demokrat belediyeciliğin ideolojik dönüşümü
CHP belediyeciliği tarihsel bir yol ayrımında: Ya neoliberal hegemonyanın insancıl yüzü olmaya devam edecek ya da toplumcu belediyecilik mirasını güncelleyerek karşı-hegemonik bir özne olacaktır.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Limits and Beyond

Eric Sheppard takes us through Harvey's seminal Limits to Capital (1982).
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Limits and Beyond
Limits to Capital is David’s foundational text, in three senses: foundational to his own thinking since 1982, to the flourishing body of scholarship on geographical political economy, and to his curre...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Teaching Marx for the Conjuncture

David Featherstone reviews David Harvey's The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (2020)
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Teaching Marx for the Conjuncture
David Harvey opens his chapter on ‘The Geopolitics of Capitalism’ in The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles with the proviso that ‘coming from a geographical background, I feel I always have to insert some ge...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Bolivia Returns to the White Ruling Elite - Linda Farthing
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Bolivia Returns to the White Ruling Elite
Bolivia’s election of the center-right Rodrigo Paz Pereira marks the end of the MAS’s nearly 20-year rule. As MAS self-destructed, Paz appealed to an urban middle class that expanded as the Left achie...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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On 'Rebel Cities'

"Geographer Desiree Fields continues our Harvey at 90 series with a look at Rebel Cities (2019)"
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On 'Rebel Cities'
Rebel Cities is a book that builds on David Harvey’s long commitment to theorizing the urban as a key site of capital’s accumulation and inevitable contradictions. This commitment dates back to Social...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Lucio Colletti and the Crisis of Italian Marxism - Giorgio Cesarale

"Colletti’s subsequent drift to the right symbolized a wider shift in Italy’s whole political axis as its once-powerful left-wing movements went into decline."
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Lucio Colletti and the Crisis of Italian Marxism
The Italian philosopher Lucio Colletti was one of the outstanding postwar Marxist thinkers. But Colletti’s subsequent drift to the right symbolized a wider shift in Italy’s whole political axis as its...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'

Economist Carolina Alves seamlessly breaks-down Harvey's Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017)
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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The Foundational, the Moving and the Dangerous - Shaina Potts

In continuation of our David Harvey at 90 series, Shaina Potts looks at Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014)
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The Foundational, the Moving and the Dangerous
More or less uninformed critics of Marxism have long decried it for its supposed economic reductionism, its totalizing answers, its mechanical focus on class struggle. They imagine Marx(ists) to be lo...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Bu podcast, Nancy Fraser'ın Harvey'in "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" adlı kitabını incelediği yazısını konuşuyor.
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David Harvey 10 Marxın Grundrissesi İçin Kılavuz (podcast)
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October 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Capital and/or Capitalist Society? A Tale of Two Totalities

Nancy Fraser tackles David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse
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Capital and/or Capitalist Society? A Tale of Two Totalities
David Harvey has inspired me for many years. In 1970 he guided my first reading of Capital Volume 1 in a New Left study group. We’ve since had many discussions, at conferences, symposia and book launc...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM