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Matthew Dimick wades into the debate on the political utility of 'checks and balances' in the era of Trump.
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More Checks and Balances, Please — Matthew Dimick
‘The answer to Trump is not fewer checks but more—the subordination of the presidency to the legislature, or even the abolition of the executive as a separate and “coequal” branch…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Matthew Dimick wades into the debate on the political utility of 'checks and balances' in the era of Trump.
legalform.blog/2025/10/14/c...
legalform.blog/2025/10/14/c...
The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Bourgeois Legal Forms: From Marx (1875) to the Cultural Revolution in China (1975) — John Milios
John Milios on the importance of addressing the issue of capitalist legal forms in a socialist society as a prerequisite for examining class conflicts and socioeconomic transformations in socialist…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
Ryan Breeden's translation of Karl Korsch's review/engagement with Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner.
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Karl Korsch on Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner — Ryan Breeden
‘[S]o-called “law,” even in its form … is merely another fetishistically distorted appearance of the same social realities that first appear—already in fetishized form—in the commodity (i.e.,…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Ryan Breeden's translation of Karl Korsch's review/engagement with Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner.
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Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Tis a chunky tome.
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Tis a chunky tome.
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Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach - Volume 4 Issue 2
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August 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus
‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…
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July 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
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legalform.blog/2025/07/29/f...
From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus
‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…
legalform.blog
July 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
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I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager.
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
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And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed
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July 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager.
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence:
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Resisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice — Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …
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July 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence:
legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
Resisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice — Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …
legalform.blog
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
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hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.
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Hey y'all! We've got a special Friday post.
@nhold.bsky.social takes on the law-and-order consensus uniting Trump and his official "opposition."
Hey y'all! We've got a special Friday post.
@nhold.bsky.social takes on the law-and-order consensus uniting Trump and his official "opposition."
Hands Off! – Spectre Journal
Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.
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New publication 🙌
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
July 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New publication 🙌
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
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D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/l...
Legal Abolition, Trans Liberation, Working-Class Tolerance — D K Renton
‘All domination must be excluded, including the domination of transphobes over trans lives.’ D K Renton on trans liberation and competing conceptions of tolerance.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/l...
D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/l...
Legal Abolition, Trans Liberation, Working-Class Tolerance — D K Renton
‘All domination must be excluded, including the domination of transphobes over trans lives.’ D K Renton on trans liberation and competing conceptions of tolerance.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/l...
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@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
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Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos
Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…
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June 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
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Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
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Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos
Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…
legalform.blog
June 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...
legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...
August H. Nimtz on LA: 'The events in Los Angeles have the potential of being an important learning opportunity—the necessary preparatory work for the real revolutionary moment that Trump redux inexorably promises.' legalform.blog/2025/06/16/l...
Lessons of Los Angeles — August H. Nimtz
August Nimtz on the events in LA, labour in the US, and whether we are witnessing a revolutionary moment.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
August H. Nimtz on LA: 'The events in Los Angeles have the potential of being an important learning opportunity—the necessary preparatory work for the real revolutionary moment that Trump redux inexorably promises.' legalform.blog/2025/06/16/l...
'It might be tempting to see what is happening to pro-Palestinian activists in the US as an exclusive attribute of the Trump administration… But that would be a mistake.'
Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Let’s not kid ourselves: the repression of pro-Palestinian activism is not an exclusively Trumpian attribute – Eva Nanopoulos
As Harvard University is leading a rebellion against the Trump administration’s far-reaching intervention into university practices under the pretext of fighting antisemitism on campus, Heyleh Dout…
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May 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
'It might be tempting to see what is happening to pro-Palestinian activists in the US as an exclusive attribute of the Trump administration… But that would be a mistake.'
Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.
'More "communal" forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards'. Levi Rafael Groenewold writes on Pashukanis, technical standards, and the fate of the legal form.
In Defence of Technical Standards: The Development of Social Relations in Post-Legal Communism — Levi Rafael Groenewold
‘More “communal” forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards than a body of people unaccountabl…
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April 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'More "communal" forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards'. Levi Rafael Groenewold writes on Pashukanis, technical standards, and the fate of the legal form.
Rosie Woodhouse writes on Staatsräson: Germany joins the US in pursuing 'repression via deportation of political action against their respective governments' ongoing material and ideological facilitation of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.'
German Staatsräson Means Deportation? — Rosie Woodhouse
Rosie Woodhouse on the repression of Palestinian solidarity in Germany.
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April 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Rosie Woodhouse writes on Staatsräson: Germany joins the US in pursuing 'repression via deportation of political action against their respective governments' ongoing material and ideological facilitation of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.'
Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitrios Kivotidis's THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRACY (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and bringing communist ideas into a field traditionally dominated by mainstream perspectives.
Leninism, post-marxism and the class consciousness of social movements — Maria Tzanakopoulou
Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitris Kivotidis’ The Dialectics of Democracy (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and …
legalform.blog
January 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitrios Kivotidis's THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRACY (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and bringing communist ideas into a field traditionally dominated by mainstream perspectives.
'Erdoğan’s push for a new constitution is driven by the shifting trajectory of Turkey’s political regime and its corresponding state form'. Ulaş Karadağ on the political economy of constitutional change in Turkey.
Revolving Around the Discourse of the New Constitution: Changing the Form of the State in Turkey — Ulaş Karadağ
‘Erdoğan’s push for a new constitution is driven by the shifting trajectory of Turkey’s political regime and its corresponding state form’. Ulaş Karadağ on the political economy of cons…
legalform.blog
January 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
'Erdoğan’s push for a new constitution is driven by the shifting trajectory of Turkey’s political regime and its corresponding state form'. Ulaş Karadağ on the political economy of constitutional change in Turkey.
'Instead of abstract equality before the law, the classless society is founded on the equality of individual human needs.'
Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the social content of legal form.
Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the social content of legal form.
Notes on Pashukanis: From Legal Subject towards the Critique of Class Society — Werner Bonefeld
‘Instead of the abstract equality before the law, the classless society is founded on the equality of individual human needs.’ Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the historical sp…
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January 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'Instead of abstract equality before the law, the classless society is founded on the equality of individual human needs.'
Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the social content of legal form.
Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the social content of legal form.
'Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. Never to be forgotten is that the only job the septuagenarian ever held before 2017 was that of a capitalist boss. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House'. August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US.
Trump Redux: A Silver Lining? — August H. Nimtz
‘Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House.’ August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US…
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December 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
'Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. Never to be forgotten is that the only job the septuagenarian ever held before 2017 was that of a capitalist boss. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House'. August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US.
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10. "Ordoliberalism out of order? The fragile constitutionality of Greek austerity", two part article for @legalform.bsky.social
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Ordoliberalism Out of Order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity (Part One) — Pavlos Roufos
The first part of Pavlos Roufos’ two-part post on ordoliberalism and the political economy of Europe.
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November 18, 2024 at 9:23 AM
10. "Ordoliberalism out of order? The fragile constitutionality of Greek austerity", two part article for @legalform.bsky.social
Part one: legalform.blog/2020/05/17/o...
Part two: legalform.blog/2020/06/03/o...
Part one: legalform.blog/2020/05/17/o...
Part two: legalform.blog/2020/06/03/o...