This came up in a thread earlier today - Richard Seymour's @leninology.bsky.social "Disaster Nationalism". This book really fleshed out my understanding of the modern global far-right, and helped immensely in my articles.
Thoroughly recommended.
Always worth reading Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social - excerpt from his forthcoming book, and drawing nicely on Richard Seymour's @leninology.bsky.social work on 'Disaster Nationalism'.
"Today’s far right ... [is] unique to our time."
#FarRight
#Fascism
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📢 NEW PTO EXTRA 📢 @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on how the left should relate to China's rise, whether MAGA was always doomed to incoherence, and on the notion that Iran might emerge from the current conflict as the hegemon of the gulf:
Latest episode of Interregnum - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on how the left should relate to China's rise, whether MAGA was always doomed to incoherence, and on the notion that Iran might emerge from the war as the hegemon of the gulf:
"I don't take the state as a brute datum, a given of the world system..." - @leninology.bsky.social on what the realist school of international relations misses:
Lasst alles liegen und kommt, denn am Montag ist Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) in Wien.
Die alte globale Ordnung zerfällt, die Klimakrise eskaliert und rechter Katastrophen-Nationalismus erstarkt. Wir reden darüber, was da alles auf uns zukommt und wie wir dennoch um Solidarität kämpfen
"Power politics’ in the Trumpian sense is not really an intellectual disposition, or a way of apprehending America’s global situation. It is an ideological fantasy of ‘pure’ power without mediations: that is to say, all the benefits of power without any of the burdens."
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Bonus - War Without Ideology w/ China Miéville and @leninology.bsky.social
Danny and Derek speak with China Miéville and Richard Seymour about empire, Iran, and, of course, capitalism.
Link in the replies.
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Entrevista a Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social.
Sus respuestas combinan sabiduría sobre el comportamiento de las personas y conocimiento del funcionamiento del sistema.
Epic fury and cognitive dissonance
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@newleftreview.bsky.social
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Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) on the Iran war:
'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and Ukraine.'
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Ya está disponible Nacionalismo del desastre de @leninology.bsky.social, que he traducido para @versolibros.com. Un libro excelente para comprender el ascenso, el atractivo y el programa de la extrema derecha contemporánea, de gran actualidad con la vuelta de MAGA.
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My experience of the upper echelons of the Labour Party involved being condescended to by the incredibly thick & unpleasant, & thinking that in any other walk of life you would get punched in the mouth for treating people like that. Impossible to overstate how high on their own fumes they are.
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
"Much like the guff about Keir Starmer being a thoroughly decent man, you really have to wonder at the strategic blind spots and the implicit value judgments of anyone describing Peter Mandelson as charming." - @leninology.bsky.social
💥📣NEW EPISODE 📣💥 - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
Latest episode of Interregnum - PTO's show within a show with @leninology.bsky.social - we talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
📻 Weekend listening 📻 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and resistance in Minnesota.
"NATO is over. The US empire is in a process of irreversible decay... A new set of alliances is going to be necessary. It would be necessary for a left-wing government representing working class interests. It's necessary probably for the bourgeoisie..." - @leninology.bsky.social
📻 Sunday listening 📻 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and resistance in Minnesota:
📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA! 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and the situation in Minnesota:
"For the [Nazis'] core support at least, the psychological surplus was derived from participation in the regime's effective selection and destruction of enemies."
- @leninology.bsky.social, Disaster Nationalism
Just finished Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour. A very painful read at times, but extremely informative and challenging. Will be thinking about it for a while. Thank you for your work, @leninology.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
📢 🇻🇪 NEW EPISODE 📢 🇻🇪 - @leninology.bsky.social on "the Donroe Doctrine"... We talked about the attack on Venezuela, the threat to Cuba and other regional adversaries, Greenland and the Europeans, and how Trump's actions are hastening US imperial decline:
Latest episode of Interregnum - with @leninology.bsky.social
"A dying empire is a dangerous beast and will extract a big price in blood for its decline. The more desperate it becomes, the more reckless it grows, even without such a notoriously dozy, incompetent and self-aggrandising leadership." -
@leninology.bsky.social
"[the attack on Venezuela] was partly about Trump's penchant for spectacular acts of violent sovereignty, that defy inherited norms and that put the world on notice... We stand for raw, unvarnished power." - @leninology.bsky.social
A clip from the latest episode of Interregnum (PTO's show-within-a-show with @leninology.bsky.social):
