Rob Knox
@pashukanist.bsky.social
https://liverpool.academia.edu/RobertKnox
(He/him)
No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand.
SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor@histmat.bsky.social, LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
Marxist
(He/him)
No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand.
SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor@histmat.bsky.social, LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
Marxist
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Rob Knox
@pashukanist.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Law won't save us.
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Starmer's office is a device for turning panicky responses to perceived unpopularity into more unpopular decisions.
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Starmer's office is a device for turning panicky responses to perceived unpopularity into more unpopular decisions.
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I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
Reposted by Rob Knox
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
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i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
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A few ways this could go:
1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour
2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them
3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns
1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour
2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them
3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A few ways this could go:
1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour
2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them
3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns
1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour
2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them
3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
No handouts for those workshy migrants who can't be bothered to go out and steal British jobs.
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
No handouts for those workshy migrants who can't be bothered to go out and steal British jobs.
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My article about Catherine Connolly’s inauguration speech, the symbolic power of the presidency, and its limits
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Catherine Connolly’s speech was surprisingly political. It doesn’t really matter
It would be difficult to argue that the eloquent speeches of Michael D Higgins had any material effect
www.irishtimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My article about Catherine Connolly’s inauguration speech, the symbolic power of the presidency, and its limits
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
www.podbean.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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if you were hoping to watch me alternate between being a curmudgeonly little marxist and spouting Zohran propaganda on a panel about the future of capitalism with all other corporate law professors, you are in luck!!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
if you were hoping to watch me alternate between being a curmudgeonly little marxist and spouting Zohran propaganda on a panel about the future of capitalism with all other corporate law professors, you are in luck!!!
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Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar
Trump and the Federal Reserve.
newleftreview.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Personally, I will backing a sentient OBR algorithm as next leader of the Labour Party, and hopefully eternal Prime Minister.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Personally, I will backing a sentient OBR algorithm as next leader of the Labour Party, and hopefully eternal Prime Minister.
there is no greater evidence of the alienated nature of the British political and media sphere than the collective delusion that Wes Streeting is somehow popular.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
there is no greater evidence of the alienated nature of the British political and media sphere than the collective delusion that Wes Streeting is somehow popular.
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apropos of a conversation with @pashukanist.bsky.social I am once again convinced people on the left in the US really should pay more attention to the UK and specifically the limitations of and roles played by the Labour Party. I think for progressives in the US it's very easy to go along with a
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
apropos of a conversation with @pashukanist.bsky.social I am once again convinced people on the left in the US really should pay more attention to the UK and specifically the limitations of and roles played by the Labour Party. I think for progressives in the US it's very easy to go along with a
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
www.podbean.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Reposted by Rob Knox
On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
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My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Reposted by Rob Knox
Law won't save us.
November 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Law won't save us.
Reposted by Rob Knox
if this was the feedback i got i'd kill myself
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
if this was the feedback i got i'd kill myself
Theming chocolate around contemporary British politics is a brave choice but I like it.
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Theming chocolate around contemporary British politics is a brave choice but I like it.
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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Is saying racist things really racist though?
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Is saying racist things really racist though?
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
Join us on every fucking talking heads talk show for the rest of eternity to discuss this ridiculous question over and over and over and over again.
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BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!