Jacob Winter
@jwprairiefire.bsky.social
Senior staff writer SOAS Spirit
Third year BA Pol and IR SOAS
Interested in international relations, global history and political theory.
“What are the pretenses that absolve us from participating in history?” - Mohammed El-Kurd
Third year BA Pol and IR SOAS
Interested in international relations, global history and political theory.
“What are the pretenses that absolve us from participating in history?” - Mohammed El-Kurd
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I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic
And what's more leftist than that
And what's more leftist than that
February 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic
And what's more leftist than that
And what's more leftist than that
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The British ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1859 on his French counterpart: "...a kind hearted and conciliatory man, but troubled occassionally with that susceptibility which not uncommonly renders a Frenchman more intent upon trifles than upon matters of serious import.."
January 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The British ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1859 on his French counterpart: "...a kind hearted and conciliatory man, but troubled occassionally with that susceptibility which not uncommonly renders a Frenchman more intent upon trifles than upon matters of serious import.."
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My journal article on James Connolly as a pioneering anti-colonial thinker is online, open access in Modern Intellectual History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Irish Idea: James Connolly’s Political Thought | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The Irish Idea: James Connolly’s Political Thought
www.cambridge.org
December 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My journal article on James Connolly as a pioneering anti-colonial thinker is online, open access in Modern Intellectual History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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for the potato fears not death
December 31, 2024 at 1:55 PM
for the potato fears not death
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Clark on Anderson on Clark www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christopher Clark · The Murmur of Engines: A Historian's Historians
Perry Anderson brings a peculiar gift to the work of criticism: he can step into a book and inspect it closely, even...
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November 28, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Clark on Anderson on Clark www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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It’s publication day!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
It’s publication day!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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There are growing murmurings within the Labour intelligentsia for the adoption a New Economic Policy to ensure that the party's urban base can make peace with agrarian interests and halt festering rebellion in the countryside.
November 19, 2024 at 10:20 AM
There are growing murmurings within the Labour intelligentsia for the adoption a New Economic Policy to ensure that the party's urban base can make peace with agrarian interests and halt festering rebellion in the countryside.
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To enjoy Hobsbawm at his long nineteenth century best, you also have to read him at his Neil Kinnock’s favourite Marxist worst.
November 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
To enjoy Hobsbawm at his long nineteenth century best, you also have to read him at his Neil Kinnock’s favourite Marxist worst.
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The narrative being put forward today that there is a cultural chasm between an urban Labour Party and rural Britain is a caricature. It also serves to (deliberately) overlook the history of class politics in the countryside and in the agricultural economy as well.
November 19, 2024 at 11:52 AM
The narrative being put forward today that there is a cultural chasm between an urban Labour Party and rural Britain is a caricature. It also serves to (deliberately) overlook the history of class politics in the countryside and in the agricultural economy as well.
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My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access).
The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire - Volume 118 Issue 4
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November 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access).
The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
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Great image 🔽
David Proudfoot was a leading trade unionist in the 1926 general strike and miners’ lockout, when local Councils of Action exercised considerable power in Fife.
His letters from the time were later published in Militant Miners by the Scottish labour historian, Ian MacDougall.
David Proudfoot was a leading trade unionist in the 1926 general strike and miners’ lockout, when local Councils of Action exercised considerable power in Fife.
His letters from the time were later published in Militant Miners by the Scottish labour historian, Ian MacDougall.
November 17, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Great image 🔽
David Proudfoot was a leading trade unionist in the 1926 general strike and miners’ lockout, when local Councils of Action exercised considerable power in Fife.
His letters from the time were later published in Militant Miners by the Scottish labour historian, Ian MacDougall.
David Proudfoot was a leading trade unionist in the 1926 general strike and miners’ lockout, when local Councils of Action exercised considerable power in Fife.
His letters from the time were later published in Militant Miners by the Scottish labour historian, Ian MacDougall.
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Hobsbawm was second to none in casually dropping gems like these:
November 17, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Hobsbawm was second to none in casually dropping gems like these:
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Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
November 10, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
Deeply amused that the two male role models SOAS wanted to highlight are the Dalai Lama and Zhou Enlai
November 9, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Deeply amused that the two male role models SOAS wanted to highlight are the Dalai Lama and Zhou Enlai
Soas languages open modules >>
November 9, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Soas languages open modules >>