Pavlos Roufos
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
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It is rare but sometimes international days accidentally acquire some meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It is rare but sometimes international days accidentally acquire some meaning.
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4 Learnings about the interconnection of fascism and liberalism: A thread 🧵
To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings:
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To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings:
(1/6)
F&L Blog - Four Learnings about the Interconnection of Fascism and Liberalism - International Karl Polanyi Society
Four Learnings About the Interconnection of Fascism and Liberalism: Yesterday and Today Maie Klingenberg, Solveig Degen, and Andreas Novy 19.12.2025 Over the past months, a dozen articles on our newly...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
4 Learnings about the interconnection of fascism and liberalism: A thread 🧵
To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings:
(1/6)
To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings:
(1/6)
In other news, exciting post day.
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In other news, exciting post day.
Passage from a text discussing Peron's personal involvement in the 'ratlines' that brought Nazis to Latin America. Apparently two routes were used: Franco's Spain and Italy. In the latter case, Catholic clergy were instrumental.
(From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")
(From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Passage from a text discussing Peron's personal involvement in the 'ratlines' that brought Nazis to Latin America. Apparently two routes were used: Franco's Spain and Italy. In the latter case, Catholic clergy were instrumental.
(From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")
(From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")
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December 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form."
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl
The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form."
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
who gives a f***
YouTube struck a multiyear deal with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will run the Hollywood awards show from 2029 through 2033, after decades airing on Disney’s ABC.
Oscars Will Move to YouTube Starting in 2029
ABC, the Hollywood awards telecast’s longtime home, will air the show through 2028.
on.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
who gives a f***
I have rarely come across more transparently false and shallow arguments than Milton Friedman's excuses about his role in Pinochet's dictatorship - ridiculously often framed in justifications straight from Pinochet's own propaganda machine. (Eg: left, Friedman's 1998 account. Right, the reality)
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I have rarely come across more transparently false and shallow arguments than Milton Friedman's excuses about his role in Pinochet's dictatorship - ridiculously often framed in justifications straight from Pinochet's own propaganda machine. (Eg: left, Friedman's 1998 account. Right, the reality)
In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.
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Kiel, Germany, 1931
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Kiel, Germany, 1931
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Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously
drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...
drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously
drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...
drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Recommended book for students of economic history/political economy of the US.
Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People, In The Bailout State, Martijn Konings exposes the inner workings of this sprawling infrastructure of government guarantees. Backstopping fi...
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December 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Recommended book for students of economic history/political economy of the US.
Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Pierces through the narrative that there was a clean break between some mythical Keynesian era (postwar-70s) and a neoliberal era (80s-today) 1/2
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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'The Forest' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
'The Forest' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
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Όταν συζητάμε για την ψυχική ασθένεια, μιλάμε για τους ασθενείς, αλλά όχι για τους οικείους τους. Τι σημαίνει να καλείσαι να διαχειριστείς μια διάγνωση που αλλάζει και τη δική σου ζωή;
Τρεις γυναίκες μας λένε τις ιστορίες τους.
✍️ @katoiko.bsky.social
#insidestory_gr
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Τρεις γυναίκες μας λένε τις ιστορίες τους.
✍️ @katoiko.bsky.social
#insidestory_gr
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Πώς είναι η ζωή με ένα αγαπημένο πρόσωπο που πάσχει από ψυχική ασθένεια
Όταν συζητάμε για την ψυχική ασθένεια, μιλάμε για τους ασθενείς, αλλά όχι και για εκείνους που είναι κοντά τους. Τι σημαίνει να καλείσαι να διαχειριστείς μια διάγνωση που αλλάζει και τη δική σου ζωή; ...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Όταν συζητάμε για την ψυχική ασθένεια, μιλάμε για τους ασθενείς, αλλά όχι για τους οικείους τους. Τι σημαίνει να καλείσαι να διαχειριστείς μια διάγνωση που αλλάζει και τη δική σου ζωή;
Τρεις γυναίκες μας λένε τις ιστορίες τους.
✍️ @katoiko.bsky.social
#insidestory_gr
insidestory.gr/article/pos-...
Τρεις γυναίκες μας λένε τις ιστορίες τους.
✍️ @katoiko.bsky.social
#insidestory_gr
insidestory.gr/article/pos-...
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The horrendous irony of using AI to do this seems itself befitting how damaged we are ☹️
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The horrendous irony of using AI to do this seems itself befitting how damaged we are ☹️
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Amazing to see that our new HR policy on discrimination and harassment concedes that "alienation, isolation" do in fact constitute a "poisoned work environment."
Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.
Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Amazing to see that our new HR policy on discrimination and harassment concedes that "alienation, isolation" do in fact constitute a "poisoned work environment."
Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.
Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.
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Analysis: The president is stupid and has dementia, probably. They keep giving him exams to make sure he won't take a dump in the utility closet, and he thinks he's being awarded the first "Einstein Prize to Presidents for Being So Good at Very Hard Tests."
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Analysis: The president is stupid and has dementia, probably. They keep giving him exams to make sure he won't take a dump in the utility closet, and he thinks he's being awarded the first "Einstein Prize to Presidents for Being So Good at Very Hard Tests."
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Why does autocorrect change words that are words? I typed "heating" and then it changes it to "hearing." No no no, I wrote and meant heating
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Why does autocorrect change words that are words? I typed "heating" and then it changes it to "hearing." No no no, I wrote and meant heating
“To make sure that fascists don’t win (i.e. in order for us to stay in power) we will adopt & implement fascist discourse & policies. In doing that, we will also normalize fascism for larger parts of the population because some idiots still describe us as ‘centre-left’”.
Here, fixed it.
Here, fixed it.
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
“To make sure that fascists don’t win (i.e. in order for us to stay in power) we will adopt & implement fascist discourse & policies. In doing that, we will also normalize fascism for larger parts of the population because some idiots still describe us as ‘centre-left’”.
Here, fixed it.
Here, fixed it.
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Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social
The news is not that X deleted the Commission's account but that the Commission still had an account. Similarly, the reason to abandon X was a refusal to monetise fascists & to tolerate the algorithmic interventions of the fascist/idiot owner, not because X/Musk are attacking the EU. Jeez people.
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The news is not that X deleted the Commission's account but that the Commission still had an account. Similarly, the reason to abandon X was a refusal to monetise fascists & to tolerate the algorithmic interventions of the fascist/idiot owner, not because X/Musk are attacking the EU. Jeez people.