Rob Knox
@pashukanist.bsky.social
https://liverpool.academia.edu/RobertKnox
(He/him)
No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand.
SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor@histmat.bsky.social, LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
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(He/him)
No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand.
SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor@histmat.bsky.social, LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
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Rob Knox
@pashukanist.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Law won't save us.
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apropos of a conversation with @pashukanist.bsky.social I am once again convinced people on the left in the US really should pay more attention to the UK and specifically the limitations of and roles played by the Labour Party. I think for progressives in the US it's very easy to go along with a
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
apropos of a conversation with @pashukanist.bsky.social I am once again convinced people on the left in the US really should pay more attention to the UK and specifically the limitations of and roles played by the Labour Party. I think for progressives in the US it's very easy to go along with a
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
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.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
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My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Law won't save us.
November 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Law won't save us.
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if this was the feedback i got i'd kill myself
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
if this was the feedback i got i'd kill myself
Theming chocolate around contemporary British politics is a brave choice but I like it.
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Theming chocolate around contemporary British politics is a brave choice but I like it.
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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Is saying racist things really racist though?
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Is saying racist things really racist though?
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
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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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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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The term "socialism" has long lost any common meaning. Now, it just means "What I want!" OR "What I despise"! la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav...
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The term "socialism" has long lost any common meaning. Now, it just means "What I want!" OR "What I despise"! la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav...
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The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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after careful consideration I’m delighted to share that I’ve figured out what my dream job would be
communism
communism
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
after careful consideration I’m delighted to share that I’ve figured out what my dream job would be
communism
communism
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wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
A letter on epistemological breaks, morality, and the current conjuncture
Dear comrades and fellow travelers, I wrote this to clarify my own thinking by the writing, and with the hope that it might spark a little conversation which...
buttondown.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
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Huh maybe it’s not a good idea to have a monopoly on cloud infrastructure. Who would have thought? 🙄
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Huh maybe it’s not a good idea to have a monopoly on cloud infrastructure. Who would have thought? 🙄
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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I think in Britain there's the additional factor that since 2000 racism has been streng verboten in public sector institutions, including schools; the sense got around that being a racist was the worst thing possible.
Unfortunately this morphed into the idea that *calling* someone a racist was, etc.
Unfortunately this morphed into the idea that *calling* someone a racist was, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I think in Britain there's the additional factor that since 2000 racism has been streng verboten in public sector institutions, including schools; the sense got around that being a racist was the worst thing possible.
Unfortunately this morphed into the idea that *calling* someone a racist was, etc.
Unfortunately this morphed into the idea that *calling* someone a racist was, etc.
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My attempt to draw a Venn diagram for Palestine solidarity & mobility justice activism.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
I wrote something about #StopDeKindermoord
Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine
With a focus on how anticolonial social movements can pose solutions to multiple contemporary problems, this essay takes up the Big Ride for Palestine. The principal argument – that the Big Ride co...
www.tandfonline.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My attempt to draw a Venn diagram for Palestine solidarity & mobility justice activism.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
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most of the big “national“ dishes you can think of (apart from perhaps Mexican)*** only existed because of the trade routes smashed open by imperialism.
*** I say Mexican because so many global “stables” - tomato, chilli peppers, potatoes come from that region - but rice doesn’t get there until C16
*** I say Mexican because so many global “stables” - tomato, chilli peppers, potatoes come from that region - but rice doesn’t get there until C16
fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
most of the big “national“ dishes you can think of (apart from perhaps Mexican)*** only existed because of the trade routes smashed open by imperialism.
*** I say Mexican because so many global “stables” - tomato, chilli peppers, potatoes come from that region - but rice doesn’t get there until C16
*** I say Mexican because so many global “stables” - tomato, chilli peppers, potatoes come from that region - but rice doesn’t get there until C16
Sometimes I cite myself just to feel something.
October 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sometimes I cite myself just to feel something.
I can only imagine Shabana Mahmood watched a documentary on the Vietnam War, heard the phrase 'we had to destroy the village to save it', and decided that was going to be her personal credo.
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I can only imagine Shabana Mahmood watched a documentary on the Vietnam War, heard the phrase 'we had to destroy the village to save it', and decided that was going to be her personal credo.