Archiv des Monats: April 2026

Jeremy Morris, Red Threads: What was lost is self-evident to anyone alive today in the Russian Federation: an industrialized workforce with job guarantees and symbolic capital, if poor working conditions. What is preserved is an embedded sense that the rush … Weiterlesen →

I can perhaps make this abjuration of philosophical neutrality in the interest of political liberalism more palatable by referring yet again to the Wittgensteinian analogy between vocabularies and tools. —Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, (New York: Cambridge University Press, … Weiterlesen →

Volodymyr Ishchenko, International Socialism: As for the question of NATO, this is a question not so much of Ukraine’s incorporation into NATO, but of Russia’s exclusion—a point Putin himself emphasises quite often. This is apparent, for example, from recently de-classified … Weiterlesen →

Wolfgang Streeck, Jacobin: »Wir werden«, so Klingbeil in einer offenbar lange vorbereiteten Rede am 25. März, »als Gesellschaft mehr arbeiten müssen«. 😀

Berliner Zeitung: „Das Menschenbild des Grundgesetzes geht im Anschluss an Humanismus, Aufklärung und Liberalismus von mündigen, eigenverantwortlich handelnden Staatsbürgern aus.Diese begegnen einander in analogen und digitalen Foren in einem argumentativ, mitunter auch polemisch ausgetragenen, pluralen Meinungswettstreit. Meinungsfreiheit bedeutet die Freiheit, … Weiterlesen →

The Bush Sr. Library has some pretty cool stuff, to be honest, on Iraq, Ukraine, the DDR. On 28 February, Bush declared victory. The BBC reported that the Western allies had lost 148 soldiers in battle, and 145 more from … Weiterlesen →

„Dieser Krieg muss sofort gestoppt werden!“

This seems pretty much Sith-level stuff. Are there any limits to what Americans will go along with? I mean even in theory? 🤔

I realized years (decades?) ago how foolish the injunction „If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention“ was. Perpetual outrage seems as ill-advised as perpetual despair, shock, horror, etc. A nurse friend years ago told me of the black humor … Weiterlesen →