ADAM TOOZE

Brecht: The word to convince has simply been replaced by the more fitting word, to sell.

Brecht: From the point of view of a ball in play the laws of motion are virtually impossible to conceive.

Brecht: we have barber shops for facts and apothecaries dispensing thoughts poisonous to capitalism on prescription.

Brecht: Even for the leaders grasping the whole was neither possible nor necessary, what was, was obscuring the parts.

Brecht: Forces that determined ones fate were mysterious.nEverywhere there were people pulling strings.nShould one assume they r clueless?

Brecht: investigation of social processes does not leave those processes unaffected … its effect is revolutionizing. Flüchtlingsgespräche

Brecht: humans created an economy that required superhumans to overview it! Flüchtlingsgespräche

Retweeted The Int'l Spectator (@intlspectator):nnUS Defense Department employs 3.2 million people, making it… https://t.co/UGcioseOP8

Retweeted Michael Tracey (@mtracey):nnIt Has Been 190 Days Since Hillary Promised to 'Look Into' Releasing the… https://t.co/wVGwm9x853

It Has Been 190 Days Since Hillary Promised to 'Look Into' Releasing the Transcripts from Her Goldman Sachs Speeches https://t.co/srOuD4tI3e

Retweeted Michael Baenen (@MichaelBaenen):nnWest, American Peace Commissioners, begun 1783. What did Richard… https://t.co/1JJpNMO76u

Adrienne Rich 1991: nIn those year, people will say, we lost tracknof the meaning of we, of younwe found ourselves nreduce to I

Trump-advisor-Moore: democracy = 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. Wonder who the sheep is? https://t.co/00RuEJJETH

Retweeted The Intercept (@theintercept):nnDonald Trump's economic adviser says he is “not even a big believer in… https://t.co/4uaFak7Zky

Retweeted The Arcades Project (@arcadesprojectb):nnThe future which once awaited us beyond requiem has been… https://t.co/mWVUfPTZpY

Commemorating the Soviet-FIAT deal that gave us Lada and Togliattigrad https://t.co/GEKTK3zHHf

Bordeaux, which is still priced in sterling, benefits from investor interest in post-Brexit plunge https://t.co/VKkHsszA1f

Im not sure it stands up as social history but this a fun piece by @JananGanesh Britain owes debt to ‘mod’ culture https://t.co/iNduu0CD88

Lumpenproletariat strikes back: Fascinating @Macquarie report on globalization & inequality… https://t.co/DlkepDRQgn

The shambles to which the once booming Libyan oil industry has been reduced. The struggle to restore exports.nhttps://t.co/ZJbPSOq0d5

Striking reconfigurations of Moscow, Paris in Apocalypse soon: videogame visions of world cities in 2029 https://t.co/RO3lUfmCpS

Eichengreen on the IMF damning internal report on European interventions. To be autonomous IMF needs more resource! https://t.co/DKINlZnZGD