Adam Lantz
@adamlantz.bsky.social
Lawyer. Our shared struggle. Occasionally post about atrocities because: human. But mostly about failing politics, laws and legal structures.
I wrote this for my group chats but wanted to share it more widely. Living under a far-right-influenced government in Sweden, I reflect on why stepping back from constant reaction is sometimes necessary to stay grounded, strategic, and capable of long-term resistance.
On Stepping Back to Stay Grounded in a Time of Rising Fascism
On organising, burnout, and resistance under rising authoritarianism
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wrote this for my group chats but wanted to share it more widely. Living under a far-right-influenced government in Sweden, I reflect on why stepping back from constant reaction is sometimes necessary to stay grounded, strategic, and capable of long-term resistance.
Lawyers cannot salvage a system that functions precisely as designed. Lawyers operate within legal frameworks produced by the states that benefit from repression. Many lawyers know this intimately: open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lawyers cannot salvage a system that functions precisely as designed. Lawyers operate within legal frameworks produced by the states that benefit from repression. Many lawyers know this intimately: open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
Not yet. Not if we don’t build it.
Social Democracy will never fix Capitalism.
Because it can’t be fixed.
It will surrender to capital every single time.
Reposting one of my most thorough pieces I have written on the topic.
open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
Social Democracy will never fix Capitalism.
Because it can’t be fixed.
It will surrender to capital every single time.
Reposting one of my most thorough pieces I have written on the topic.
open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
No Political Party Is Coming to Save Us (Yet) — Let Me Explain Why
Why Building a Democratic And Socialist Economy Should Be Our Only Focus.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not yet. Not if we don’t build it.
Social Democracy will never fix Capitalism.
Because it can’t be fixed.
It will surrender to capital every single time.
Reposting one of my most thorough pieces I have written on the topic.
open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
Social Democracy will never fix Capitalism.
Because it can’t be fixed.
It will surrender to capital every single time.
Reposting one of my most thorough pieces I have written on the topic.
open.substack.com/pub/adamlant...
Okey. Men out there. Orange week is coming to its end. If you haven’t read bell hooks book ”the will to change: men, masculinity, and love”. I ask you why not?
Men. If we can’t love ourselves then we are the problem, this book is a start. 🧡🍑
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
Men. If we can’t love ourselves then we are the problem, this book is a start. 🧡🍑
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Okey. Men out there. Orange week is coming to its end. If you haven’t read bell hooks book ”the will to change: men, masculinity, and love”. I ask you why not?
Men. If we can’t love ourselves then we are the problem, this book is a start. 🧡🍑
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
Men. If we can’t love ourselves then we are the problem, this book is a start. 🧡🍑
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
Reposted by Adam Lantz
Regeringen går vidare med förslaget om att polisen ska få använda AI-ansiktsigenkänning. Det är ett förslag som göder rasism och kränker mänskliga rättigheter. AI-ansiktsigenkänning har 100 gånger (!) så hög sannolikhet att felidentifiera svarta och bruna människors ansikten.
Regeringen vill ge polisen AI för ansiktsigenkänning
Regeringen vill ge polisen möjlighet att använda AI för ansiktsigenkänning i realtid. Tekniken ska användas bland annat för att hitta brottsoffer och för att förhindra och utreda allvarliga brott, men...
omni.se
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Regeringen går vidare med förslaget om att polisen ska få använda AI-ansiktsigenkänning. Det är ett förslag som göder rasism och kränker mänskliga rättigheter. AI-ansiktsigenkänning har 100 gånger (!) så hög sannolikhet att felidentifiera svarta och bruna människors ansikten.
Säg vad ni vill. Tro vad ni vill. Kämpa för vad ni vill. Men detta är en mäktig rubrik ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Säg vad ni vill. Tro vad ni vill. Kämpa för vad ni vill. Men detta är en mäktig rubrik ❤️
Vår anmälan om SVT:s normalisering av folkrättsbrott går nu att läsa.
Hos ETC: www.etc.se/debatt/daerf...
Hos ETC: www.etc.se/debatt/daerf...
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Vår anmälan om SVT:s normalisering av folkrättsbrott går nu att läsa.
Hos ETC: www.etc.se/debatt/daerf...
Hos ETC: www.etc.se/debatt/daerf...
This ”ceasefire” is terrible for Palestinians. Don’t be whitewashed or westernised that this is progress. It’s only progress for USA, Israel and the western leaders that will score points to continue its crime.
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This ”ceasefire” is terrible for Palestinians. Don’t be whitewashed or westernised that this is progress. It’s only progress for USA, Israel and the western leaders that will score points to continue its crime.
Once social change begins it cannot be reversed, you cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read, you cannot humiliate the person who feels pride, you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
—Cesar Chavez
—Cesar Chavez
August 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Once social change begins it cannot be reversed, you cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read, you cannot humiliate the person who feels pride, you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
—Cesar Chavez
—Cesar Chavez
"We are behind you.
What does it mean?
Are you walking as an army of moral warriors behind me?
Or are you just hiding?
Is expressing support toward me the best you can do to contribute to end this genocide that has our fingerprints all over it."
- Francesca Albanese, 16th of July 2025
What does it mean?
Are you walking as an army of moral warriors behind me?
Or are you just hiding?
Is expressing support toward me the best you can do to contribute to end this genocide that has our fingerprints all over it."
- Francesca Albanese, 16th of July 2025
July 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
"We are behind you.
What does it mean?
Are you walking as an army of moral warriors behind me?
Or are you just hiding?
Is expressing support toward me the best you can do to contribute to end this genocide that has our fingerprints all over it."
- Francesca Albanese, 16th of July 2025
What does it mean?
Are you walking as an army of moral warriors behind me?
Or are you just hiding?
Is expressing support toward me the best you can do to contribute to end this genocide that has our fingerprints all over it."
- Francesca Albanese, 16th of July 2025
It’s wild how much money the far-right are willing to throw away just to keep adults, youth, and children locked up. Imagine investing in a society where people can live without shame, fear, or hunger.
And don’t even get me started on what they waste on arms and war. #imperialism #nato #antiwar
And don’t even get me started on what they waste on arms and war. #imperialism #nato #antiwar
July 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s wild how much money the far-right are willing to throw away just to keep adults, youth, and children locked up. Imagine investing in a society where people can live without shame, fear, or hunger.
And don’t even get me started on what they waste on arms and war. #imperialism #nato #antiwar
And don’t even get me started on what they waste on arms and war. #imperialism #nato #antiwar
If advocating for human rights makes one a 'terrorist,' then only the Global North - and particularly the US and Israel - should be allowed to be named after that term.
July 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
If advocating for human rights makes one a 'terrorist,' then only the Global North - and particularly the US and Israel - should be allowed to be named after that term.
I’ll speak plainly.
If the genocide in Gaza and a potential nuclear attack on Iran is not enough for the so-called democratic West to justify a global insurgency against the Israeli state to dismantle it, then no such justification for any insurgence, can ever exist.
If the genocide in Gaza and a potential nuclear attack on Iran is not enough for the so-called democratic West to justify a global insurgency against the Israeli state to dismantle it, then no such justification for any insurgence, can ever exist.
June 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’ll speak plainly.
If the genocide in Gaza and a potential nuclear attack on Iran is not enough for the so-called democratic West to justify a global insurgency against the Israeli state to dismantle it, then no such justification for any insurgence, can ever exist.
If the genocide in Gaza and a potential nuclear attack on Iran is not enough for the so-called democratic West to justify a global insurgency against the Israeli state to dismantle it, then no such justification for any insurgence, can ever exist.
The Court of Justice of the recent ruling on Malta’s citizenship-by-investment scheme is more than a legal footnote. It’s a spotlight on the commodification of belonging.
@ec.europa.eu, maybe something for @europeanspod.bsky.social to cover?
medium.com/the-law-lab/...
@ec.europa.eu, maybe something for @europeanspod.bsky.social to cover?
medium.com/the-law-lab/...
The Price of Belonging: Europe’s Golden Passports and Hidden Borders
Malta’s passport scheme is stirring the hornet’s nest. This is a story about exclusion, inequality, and the right to citizenship.
medium.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The Court of Justice of the recent ruling on Malta’s citizenship-by-investment scheme is more than a legal footnote. It’s a spotlight on the commodification of belonging.
@ec.europa.eu, maybe something for @europeanspod.bsky.social to cover?
medium.com/the-law-lab/...
@ec.europa.eu, maybe something for @europeanspod.bsky.social to cover?
medium.com/the-law-lab/...
A genocide, live-streamed,
and the cameras blinked away.
Guilt is too bloodless a word.
Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide
medium.com/the-new-clim...
and the cameras blinked away.
Guilt is too bloodless a word.
Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide
Gaza’s genocide is no accident: The system profits from our silence
medium.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A genocide, live-streamed,
and the cameras blinked away.
Guilt is too bloodless a word.
Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide
medium.com/the-new-clim...
and the cameras blinked away.
Guilt is too bloodless a word.
Too Little, Too Late: Media Complicity in Genocide
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Fascinated how cool and natural it is today to just go about your own business looking fancy.
Caring and showing some civil courage is frowned upon - like who do you think you are? Is a common thought among the majority who are silently criticising people that stand up and care.
Caring and showing some civil courage is frowned upon - like who do you think you are? Is a common thought among the majority who are silently criticising people that stand up and care.
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fascinated how cool and natural it is today to just go about your own business looking fancy.
Caring and showing some civil courage is frowned upon - like who do you think you are? Is a common thought among the majority who are silently criticising people that stand up and care.
Caring and showing some civil courage is frowned upon - like who do you think you are? Is a common thought among the majority who are silently criticising people that stand up and care.
Reposted by Adam Lantz
When billionaires say 'pro free market' they can make it sound like they are on the side of the consumer, who will naturally think of free competition, product improvement and price reduction. But they don't mean free competition, because that needs tough regulation to stop monopolies forming.
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
When billionaires say 'pro free market' they can make it sound like they are on the side of the consumer, who will naturally think of free competition, product improvement and price reduction. But they don't mean free competition, because that needs tough regulation to stop monopolies forming.
This idea that progressives need to be more like conservatives or the far right to attract voters? No, thank you. I don’t want to prey on vulnerable people’s fears or be fooled by rich people’s vulgarity.
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This idea that progressives need to be more like conservatives or the far right to attract voters? No, thank you. I don’t want to prey on vulnerable people’s fears or be fooled by rich people’s vulgarity.
Reposted by Adam Lantz
New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives.
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
New data on global poverty
What does it show?
jasonhickel.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives.
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...
Reposted by Adam Lantz
Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation.
As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation.
As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
Concerned by the critique of Swedish authorities. We’ll miss them once they’re gone or decreased.
Imagine needing a court ruling to adjust your taxes, claim inheritance, fix a water issue. Privatised public services mean more lawsuits over price gouging, unfair contracts, and service failures.
Imagine needing a court ruling to adjust your taxes, claim inheritance, fix a water issue. Privatised public services mean more lawsuits over price gouging, unfair contracts, and service failures.
February 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Concerned by the critique of Swedish authorities. We’ll miss them once they’re gone or decreased.
Imagine needing a court ruling to adjust your taxes, claim inheritance, fix a water issue. Privatised public services mean more lawsuits over price gouging, unfair contracts, and service failures.
Imagine needing a court ruling to adjust your taxes, claim inheritance, fix a water issue. Privatised public services mean more lawsuits over price gouging, unfair contracts, and service failures.