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Protectionist Revenants

The lessons that the bourgeoisie learned from the great systemic crisis of the 1930s have long been forgotten in Trump’s Washington. Tomasz Konicz, 06.04.2025, Originally published on konicz.info on 03/28/25 Want some more? When it comes to tariffs and trade barriers, the U.S. president is known to be extravagant. In response to the EU’s announcement […]

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The AI Revolution Devours its Children

The Chinese AI company Deepseek is shaking up the business model of the emerging industry. Tomasz Konicz, 06.04.2025, Originally published on konicz.info on 02/16/2025 The shockwaves that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek sent through the American high-tech industry also produced ironic, downright comical moments. ChatGPT developer OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, accused the Chinese

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For a Piece of Land

Trump’s move will probably lead to an end to the war, but how much will Ukraine have to pay? Tomasz Konicz, Originally published in analyse & kritik on 02/18/2025 Are the imperialists in the Kremlin on the home stretch of their war of aggression in Ukraine? With right-wing populist Donald Trump taking office, Ukraine’s already

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Cancel Culture USA

The purges and deportations threatened by Trump have already begun. Tomasz Konicz, 21.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 02/06/2025 It seems that what follows neoliberalism is based on the methods that neoliberalism used in previous decades to implement its infamous structural adjustment programs. They are fascistoid decay products of neoliberalism that are now unwinding the neoliberally

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Fascist Breakthrough as the Election Campaign Heats Up?

Remarks on the development of late capitalist democracy in authoritarian Germany. Tomasz Konicz, 20.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 01/28/2025 It is a primitive, obvious scam that anyone who wants to can see through immediately: Every time a person with a migration background, a refugee or a foreigner commits a crime, a new round of fascization

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A Country for Old Men

America’s Oligarchic Path into the Coming Era of Fascist Crisis Management Tomasz Konicz, 18.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 01/22/2025 The catastrophe that not only America is now heading for was already looming before Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. “Nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected, Biden assured wealthy donors at a New York campaign

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Handing Over the Keys

How the democratic center of crisis-ridden Germany is paving the way for fascism Tomasz Konicz, 17.03.2025 Originally published on konicz.info on 01/28/25 and updated on 02/01/25 The ease and smoothness with which the fascization of Germany is taking place in the 2025 election campaign is downright dizzying. It is happening in rapid succession, and it

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Everything must burn!

By Tomasz Konicz / March 15, 2025 A brief overview of the crisis-driven dismantling of the remnants of American hegemony by the Trump administration. Greenland and Panama, Mexico and Canada — plus some Gaza beaches and Boers from South Africa. The first weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency were downright surreal in terms of foreign

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Crisis Management in Times of Change

The end of neoliberal globalization is giving a boost to neo-fascist crisis management – especially in the former “export world champion” Tomasz Konicz, 06.12.2024 It would be wrong, and reminiscent of the bad Marxist tradition, to postulate a one-sided causal inevitability between the development of the economic base and the political-ideological superstructure. Economic development, the

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The Great Regression

01.09.2024 You are speaking out against Jewish capital, gentlemen? Anyone who speaks out against Jew capital, gentlemen, is already a class fighter, even if he doesn’t know it. You are against Jew capital and want to fight the stock market jobbers. That’s right. Kick the Jew capitalists down, hang them from the lamppost, trample them

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AI and Crisis Management

Control, marginalization, immobilization or counterinsurgency – AI systems are predestined to manage the global crisis of capital. August 1, 2024 A particularly effective method of the endangered genre of subversive science fiction horror is to exaggerate the given late capitalist reality only slightly, to transfer only a few moments of society into the realm of

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After the Boom, All That Remains Are Ruins

The crisis in the construction industry shows that the Chinese state’s usual methods of dealing with economic problems are less and less effective. jungle world, 15.02.2024 A Hong Kong court has ordered the liquidation of China’s heavily indebted second-largest real estate group, Evergrande. The crisis in the construction industry shows that the Chinese state’s usual

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Sahra’s Final Form

German „Querfront“: Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party BSW will hardly harm the AfD, but will instead shift the political balance further to the right 04.05.2024, Tomasz Konicz, translated by OlIver Blackwell Above all, it is a legend that many Wagenknecht fans use to talk themselves into joining the Querfront: The entire phenomenon is purportedly directed against

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Transatlantic Decoupling?

How is the United States managing to overtake the eurozone economically? And will this trend continue? 27.04.2024 The United States seems to be leaving the eurozone behind economically. In recent weeks, the leading U.S. and UK business newspapers, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)[1] and the Financial Times (FT),[2]  have focused on the widening economic gap

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Why anti-fascism?

The fight against the „authoritarian revolt“ of the New Right has a central role to play in the full-blown systemic crisis. A German perspective. Tomasz Konicz, 31.12.2023 Where do all the rightwing populists and right-wing extremists that are increasingly dominating Germany’s and Europe’s political landscape come from? Contrary to popular belief, they do not come

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Captain Ancap is watching you!

The election victory of self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is being celebrated by right-wing libertarians around the world. This neoliberal extremism is successful because other ways of tackling the worsening crisis have failed – not just in Argentina. jungle world, 14.12.2023 (slightly updated here) Finally a revolutionary that the German bourgeoisie can get on board with!

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