ADAM TOOZE

RT @bphillipsonMP: Poverty is a political choice. And this Conservative Government is choosing to take £20 each week from the poorest fami…

RT @SovietPostcards: Mikhailovsky Gardens in Leningrad (1968) https://t.co/6j7RffZCo9

RT @jim_knipe: @Rinoire @sbmktg @GordonMercedes9 @EightMike @LienhardRacing @MauroBeltramo @HannahDPhotos @bourdyot_ @orsoladelzenero @ferr…

RT @Stephen83802580: German forecasters c. mid 1970s on what our energy future would look like… https://t.co/uF5owp4elo

@ELLange6 Or at least only as a pastime.

RT @ahistoryinart: 'The Rendezvous.' In 1962 William Russell Flint was one of only nine members of the Royal Academy to have his work exhib…

RT @ninabake2: The amazing memorial to the disastrous attempt to rescue the crew of #airship Italia. Photo just found as I am working throu…

@ELLange6 Yeah. Im not into LARPing.

@ELLange6 It seems that @ELLange6 came back from lunch even more fired up than before. I’m very uninterested in this kind of labeling exercise. The conversation, however, has been worthwhile. Enough for now. Busy day. All best!

@lorenzlm @Isabel_Schnabel I am fully aware, but it remains a condescending and sexist double entendre. Plus, as you say, muddled!

RT @shashj: Pure rage from the French foreign minister. "It’s a stab in the back. We had established a trusting relationship with Australia…

RT @PP_Rubens: Teaser: whose well-carpeted table? https://t.co/PvjF0Np5io

@SurplusProduce @ELLange6 @pekulium But not unexpected, surely. As I argued in chartbook #31 (right at the very end), the climate crisis is giving those classic debates amongst Marxists and friends in the 1970s and 1980s, a huge new actuality. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-tooze-c…

@MerliAless @Isabel_Schnabel Oh no. Don’t worry. I have not. Regularly remind people of fall 2019, which I take to have been a double strike v. Draghi and a preemptive effort to intimidate Lagarde.

@BachmannRudi @maurerchr @Isabel_Schnabel SEHR schön auf den Punkt gebracht! Alles Gute zum neuen Term 🙂

@maurerchr @Isabel_Schnabel Thanks to @BachmannRudi teaching I have both those in my feed. H/T

@maurerchr @Isabel_Schnabel CHEERS much appreciated!

@SurplusProduce @ELLange6 @pekulium And, as I make explicit in Shutdown, our entire conjuncture is framed by "asymmetric demobilization" … damn why didn’t I appropriate that Merkelism in the book? Kicking myself.

@SurplusProduce @ELLange6 @pekulium Plus, as a good Keynesian, I love common wealth.

@SurplusProduce @ELLange6 @pekulium As you would expect from someone who self-describes as a (left) liberal … The left bit comes into play in that I dont attach a totemic significance to any particular demarcation of those rights. And with totemic status stripped the whole thing takes on a different complexion.

@maurerchr @Isabel_Schnabel Absolutely. Hence I did not identify the media source, or its political inclination 🙂 if you can dig them out, I would appreciate twitter links to that pushback. Its a fascinating and alarming phenomenon.

@jesuismaxi @OnesandToozePod @CameronAbadi Sehr nett von ihnen. @OnesandToozePod wird von der Stimmung ähnlich denke ich.

Im not going to link to give this the oxygen of publicity, but it is worth putting this here as a monument to the kind of **** @Isabel_Schnabel and Lagarde have to deal with in German media. “Frauchen"? WTF! https://t.co/oKdrTBgPEl

@jesuismaxi Am Wochende! @OnesandToozePod Und @CameronAbadi und ich dachten sogar daran eine deutsche Version aufzunehmen.

RT @ThePlumLineGS: @adam_tooze Thanks — it's endlessly frustrating how this is portrayed. McConnell must cackle with glee every time he re…

Thank you Jan-Ottmar and @Soziopolis for reviewing! twitter.com/Soziopolis/sta…

RT @jesuismaxi: @adam_tooze neues Buch ist draußen https://t.co/iuIEiW3LpZ

Thank you @ThePlumLineGS !!!!!!!!! twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/…

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium Yeah I need breakfast. This has been good. Lets do it again.

@SurplusProduce @ELLange6 @pekulium Fair. Yup. I agree it remains framed by institutional/political setting. With one exception, I may at some point remind you of, I have never written anything other than that kind of analysis. I hope no one mistakes what I do for the “history of capitalism”.

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium @BungaCast Thanks. Seriously. Appreciate it. Decent interlocutor is precisely what I aspire to be.

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium You have moved from zuschauen to contemplating … that at least is a step in the right direction. Add analyzing, formulating, advocating, pushing for policy change and we are d’accord. With Anderson I have kinda had my Lukacsian moment have I not?

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium Yup. I get that. As classically formulated by the critiques of the early 20th century – Gramsci/Lukacs et al. The question is: as you push back against positivist reification, how do you avoid sliding into voluntarist actionism? Especially in a context without a mass party?

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium As independent thinking people we think with others … and we depend utterly on that. That’s all I meant. I have indeed learned a lot from Lenin. How could one not? But pseudo would imply some kind of failure to live up to an authentic Leninism which I would never aspire to.

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium You suggested that I espoused a pseudo-Leninism. Which would imply a role model of Lenin and a preference on your part for an authentic Leninism. If that wasn’t your point forget the question.

@ELLange6 @SurplusProduce @pekulium I think we differ on this. I really dont think there is any conflation of being and ought. The questions are all about dynamics. They are about how things change and how we might exercise some leverage over that.