William Westgard-Cruice
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William Westgard-Cruice
@williamwc.bsky.social
Geographer • renewable energy, labour regimes, critique of political economy • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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BYD is considering opening a factory in Catalonia. Company executives and engineers have visited Catalonia several times in recent months in search of a suitable location for a factory that would complement existing production facilities in Hungary

www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
El gigante chino BYD estudia abrir una fábrica de coches eléctricos en Catalunya
El fabricante, el mayor de China y ‘top 3’ en todo el mundo en volumen de ventas, busca un emplazamiento en la Europa occidental y sondea otras ubicaciones tanto dentro como fuera de España
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October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"... and keeps open the strategic question of how may we cooperate to exceed commodity mediation, and how can we make current defeats less compartmentalized and self-complacent."
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"The point of a dialectical materialist critique is therefore not to offer a ready revolutionary programme; rather, by mapping how even the most militant actions are channeled through wages, contracts, ranking metrics, or platform logics, it de-fetishizes dissent..."
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"Anti-capitalist practices, in short, can legitimize the very dynamics they hope to overturn when claiming victory instead of a partial defeat."
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"... much ‘class-strategy’ research proceeds case-by-case, treating each struggle as if its own power resources floated free of the value relations that both enable and constrain them. Victories are proclaimed absolute even while actors continue to confront one another competitively ..."
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"If class strategies truly stood outside capital, they would not run up against value’s ‘mute compulsion’ ... by treating the ‘crack’ or rupture as an escape route, class-centred analyses miss the fact that capital has hitherto grown always stronger through those convulsive experiences."
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“... class struggles mediated by direct political relations of solidarity are not, however, something inherently external, independent, relatively autonomous or beyond capitalism… but the very political form which a society generally mediated by the impersonal market relations adopts.”
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM