Marc Mulholland @katheder

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RTÉ News @rtenews

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More than 1.6 million people are estimated to have attended Belfast's first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann over the past week rte.ie/news/regional/…

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To put it mildly: it is now very far down our list of critically urgent problems that need to be immediately addressed and overcome.

Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | Josh Gabbatiss and Sylvia Hayes Read here: buff.ly/tvbqTIo

All welcome to the upcoming launch of this fantastic new book by Oliver Whelan 🌟 Details on the invitation. Read more about the book here: fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/lan…

@MattSimmon78102 I've said numerous times in this debate that very low IQ can indicate serious cognitive problems. It's only use. At the higher levels it become progressively more useless because it can't quantify all the qualities that constitute intellect. Read back through my posts. Thank you.

No. And the reason this argument keeps coming back isn't that it's clever. It's that it's useful. Start with what you left out. On 1 May 1933 the Nazis threw a festival for the German worker. On 2 May the SA went through the door of every trade union building in the country. Funds seized, organisations dissolved, leadership arrested. Most of them went to Dachau, where the first inmates were communists and social democrats, because that is who the camps were built for before they were built for anyone else. SPD banned in June. KPD broken in February. When the Enabling Act came to a vote, the Social Democrats were the only party that voted against it, and the Communists couldn't vote because they were already in cells. Four months. That's how long it took your socialist regime to physically destroy every organisation of the German working class. Now the money. There were no nationalisations. Almost none in the entire Third Reich, hardly any new state firms, private companies keeping real discretion over what they produced and where they invested, no central planning of investment, and the state negotiating war contracts rather than dictating them. Their explanation for why is the part that should stop you. The regime believed private ownership produced better incentives. It thought capitalists worked harder when they owned the thing. Nazi Germany was the only country in the Western world running a systematic reprivatisation programme in the 1930s, while every other capitalist state was moving toward more public ownership. Weimar had taken the big banks and a major industrial concern in the crash of 1931. The Nazis handed them back. Steel, shipping, banking. They also pioneered contracting out public services to private firms. The English word privatisation comes from the German Reprivatisierung, and it comes from them. And you forgot the biggest property transfer in Europe before the war. Aryanisation. A hundred thousand Jewish businesses, plus the homes, the accounts, the paintings. Handed to whom? Not the state. To private German owners, with Deutsche Bank and Dresdner taking a broker's cut. Find me the socialism in that. Then read the Law for the Ordering of National Labour, January 1934, which wrote the Führerprinzip into the factory. The employer is designated the leader of the plant. The workers are designated his followers. In law. Hold that sentence next to the word socialism and see which one survives. Schacht, a conservative banker, ran the economy. Feder, the only man who meant the anti-capitalist rhetoric, was squeezed out by the end of 1934. Gregor Strasser, who led the party's left, was shot on 30 June 1934. The anti-capitalist wing of Nazism was real. Hitler killed it in year two, to reassure the army and heavy industry, and it worked. Because of course they paid for him. Düsseldorf, January 1932: Hitler in front of the Ruhr, telling them property and unequal reward are natural and will be defended. Göring's residence, February 1933: Krupp and IG Farben putting up three million marks. They weren't confused about what they were buying. They were buying the end of the unions. They kept getting it until 1944, when millions of forced labourers and camp prisoners were working inside Krupp, IG Farben, Siemens and Volkswagen, and the profits stayed with the shareholders. Slave labour captured privately. There is no socialism in any language that looks like that. And the axis you think was rigged comes from a seating plan in 1789. Right side, the king and the order of ranks. Left side, equality. It has never measured the size of the state. If it did, Colbert is a Marxist, and so is Franco with his INI, and so is Mussolini, whose IRI gave Italy the largest state-owned sector in Europe outside the USSR. Nobody moves Franco leftward for it. The axis measures whether you think human inequality is natural in the blood. Nazism said yes, loudly, in print, for twenty years.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

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On a réussi le plus gros scam idéologique du XXe siècle : coller Hitler dans la case « extrême droite ». Prenez l’intégralité du programme économique nazi (pas les citations sorties de leur contexte) : - contrôle des prix et des salaires - planification industrielle massive -

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📍Statue of Hercules, Behistun, Kermanshah, Iran The Statue of Hercules in Behistun is a 2,200-year-old rock relief carved into Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of western Iran. It was accidentally discovered in 1958.

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There's masses of Russian Marxist writing from about 1885–1930 that's never been made available in English. If I set up a scheme on patreon or wherever to pay for me to translate some of it (& give the resulting translations to marxists dot org), would you subscribe?

UK weather maps turn volcanic red as new heatwave brings temperatures up to 39C mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/u…

The five largest European economies (Germany, France, UK, Italy and Spain) produced 19.3 percent of global GDP (in PPP terms) in 1980; today, they produce 10 percent. (World Bank/IMF data)

Been learning so much but it is estimated for every person killed in Iraq and Afghanistan 250 THOUSAND bullets were used.

Tarik | طارق 🇵🇸 @ASAPtyreke

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Watching @AbbyMartin’s Earth’s Greatest Enemy! So excited.

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Here is Ted Cruz outrageously claiming that Mamdani and El-Sayed are Islamists. (Note how Mamdani and El-Sayed are pro-LGBTQ+ politicians - and Ted Cruz is the opposite). You can say anything and everything about Muslims in the US. x.com/Acyn/status/20…

Acyn @Acyn

6 days ago

Cruz: They want to cancel Thanksgiving, they want to cancel Christmas. El-Sayed is also an Islamist, as is Mamdani. They want Sharia law.

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Macro-level Social Structures Drawing on different theoretical traditions and offering various kinds of arguments, these books seek to develop knowledge about the big structures that shape the lives of people. They inspired me in graduate school and continue to motivate me.

Our beautiful boxed set of the six volumes of Lebor Gabála Érenn – the Book of the Taking of Ireland - is back in (limited) stock. You can order it through your local bookshop or online from the Royal Irish Academy bookshop shop.ria.ie.

@postsocialismus @jemgilbert And "all philosophy is fraudalent"? What??

@postsocialismus @jemgilbert Weird example, no? Does anyone deny that Parfit was very important intellectually?

Insightful commentary from QUB's Dr Stephen Millar in Hannah Al-Othman and Rory Carroll's investigation of the riots in today's Guardian.

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Analytical Sociology These handbooks offer good discussions of a tradition in sociology pioneered by Coleman, Boudon & Elster that emphasizes actors & causal processes For info on The Oxford Handbook: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… Download Research Handbook: gemass.fr/wp-content/upl…

Just in case you might want to know more about me and/or keep up with my activities and events, you can take a look at my new website Many of my articles and short stories can be accessed here for free, as well as videos and radio shows billmcguire.co.uk

"Whereas mid-20th-century civil rights struggles had often been associated with socialist or revolutionary movements, the new “identity politics” was quickly incorporated and institutionalised to help forge what political theorist Nancy Fraser called “progressive neoliberalism”.

Steve Hall @ProfHall1955

3 days ago

My article on the Arday affair is out in the New Statesman this morning. newstatesman.com/politics/socie…

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