enzo rossi
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Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.
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A thing I don’t love about the Left—l do this myself sometimes—is appealing to how we used to do things as an argument for what we should do now: “When we were strong we did stuff like this”. Nostalgia is borderline conservatism. It’s tempting, but no. The way forward is through.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A thing I don’t love about the Left—l do this myself sometimes—is appealing to how we used to do things as an argument for what we should do now: “When we were strong we did stuff like this”. Nostalgia is borderline conservatism. It’s tempting, but no. The way forward is through.
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Een week geleden werd BIJ1 met een kater wakker. Het was de antikapitalistische en dekoloniale partij niet gelukt om de in 2023 verloren zetel terug te winnen? Piet Rietman keek tijdens de campagne mee achter de schermen. Hij bespreekt
de uitgagingen en en afwegingen van de partijleiding en leden.
de uitgagingen en en afwegingen van de partijleiding en leden.
5000 leden, 250.000 flyers, en toch geen zetel voor BIJ1: een reconstructie – Jacobin
Een week geleden werd BIJ1 met een kater wakker. Het was de antikapitalistische en dekoloniale partij niet gelukt om de in 2023 verloren zetel terug te winnen. <i>Jacobin</i>-redacteur Piet Rietman ke...
jacobin.nl
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Een week geleden werd BIJ1 met een kater wakker. Het was de antikapitalistische en dekoloniale partij niet gelukt om de in 2023 verloren zetel terug te winnen? Piet Rietman keek tijdens de campagne mee achter de schermen. Hij bespreekt
de uitgagingen en en afwegingen van de partijleiding en leden.
de uitgagingen en en afwegingen van de partijleiding en leden.
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Links begon de verkiezingscampagne van 2025 verdeeld en onzeker over haar eigen stem, en dat werd duidelijk zichtbaar in de uitslag.
Lees op onze vernieuwde website⤵️
jacobin.nl/links-behaal...
Lees op onze vernieuwde website⤵️
jacobin.nl/links-behaal...
Links behaalde het slechtste verkiezingsresultaat ooit. Dit is waarom. – Jacobin
In binnen- en buitenland werd opgelucht ademgehaald toen D66 als winnaar uit de stembus kwam. Toch is er nog alle reden tot zorg. Linkse partijen in Nederland behaalden het slechtste resultaat ooit en...
jacobin.nl
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Links begon de verkiezingscampagne van 2025 verdeeld en onzeker over haar eigen stem, en dat werd duidelijk zichtbaar in de uitslag.
Lees op onze vernieuwde website⤵️
jacobin.nl/links-behaal...
Lees op onze vernieuwde website⤵️
jacobin.nl/links-behaal...
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The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders.
Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
jacobin.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders.
Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.
In case Zohran's just too exciting for you, here's our room-temperature take on last week's Dutch election: jacobin.com/2025/11/neth...
The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebra...
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
In case Zohran's just too exciting for you, here's our room-temperature take on last week's Dutch election: jacobin.com/2025/11/neth...
Sulle elezioni olandesi della settimana scorsa:
Il malessere olandese - Jacobin Italia
Nei Paesi Bassi l'estrema destra di Willders si ferma, a vantaggio dei liberali. Ma la sinistra olandese ha ottenuto il suo peggior risultato di sempre. Ecco perché.
jacobinitalia.it
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Sulle elezioni olandesi della settimana scorsa:
“I don’t know if melancholy is the gaze that allows you to see how rotten everything is, or the inability to see beyond that rottenness. If it’s the first, it can be salvaged. If it’s the second, I agree with the futurists.”
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Cheer up liberated little girl blue
Should the left reject melancholy? A few thoughts for your Monday, whatever shade it may be.
illstarredletter.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“I don’t know if melancholy is the gaze that allows you to see how rotten everything is, or the inability to see beyond that rottenness. If it’s the first, it can be salvaged. If it’s the second, I agree with the futurists.”
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For completely mercenary reasons I'm opposed to this - citations are currency precisely and only because of the social meaning that they signal a judgement that the piece being cited was worth engaging with. This specifically generates evidence that works by minorities are cited for other reasons...
People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.
October 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
For completely mercenary reasons I'm opposed to this - citations are currency precisely and only because of the social meaning that they signal a judgement that the piece being cited was worth engaging with. This specifically generates evidence that works by minorities are cited for other reasons...
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
Quite a few shows about burying yourself in a controlled environment underground lately: Severance, Fallout, The Silo. The Good Place, sort of. The empire is feeling the pinch.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Quite a few shows about burying yourself in a controlled environment underground lately: Severance, Fallout, The Silo. The Good Place, sort of. The empire is feeling the pinch.
Dutch cinema is not in great state but this is an excellent film: technically accomplished, a narration that makes the most of moving images as a medium. Keep an eye on this director.
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Dutch cinema is not in great state but this is an excellent film: technically accomplished, a narration that makes the most of moving images as a medium. Keep an eye on this director.
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Amen
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Amen
Mokum tegen fascisme
October 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Mokum tegen fascisme
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October 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
“Man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does” -Nietzsche
“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”
Heine, on England. Written in 1830.
Heine, on England. Written in 1830.
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does” -Nietzsche
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:
1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"
2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"
They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"
2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"
They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
October 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:
1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"
2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"
They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"
2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"
They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
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Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
My review of Shmuel Nili's intriguing new book (though some of the cases he discusses are, er, dated): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Nili, Shmuel. Philosophizing the Indefensible: Strategic Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. $105.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My review of Shmuel Nili's intriguing new book (though some of the cases he discusses are, er, dated): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Also,
strong “reason alienates us from God” vibes in this “analytic philosophy” is bad for the left” discourse
strong “reason alienates us from God” vibes in this “analytic philosophy” is bad for the left” discourse
What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.
September 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Also,
strong “reason alienates us from God” vibes in this “analytic philosophy” is bad for the left” discourse
strong “reason alienates us from God” vibes in this “analytic philosophy” is bad for the left” discourse
Sure analytic philosophy is small
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Sure analytic philosophy is small
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?
What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?