David Karas @davidkaras.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Just launched The Dirigiste, a Substack on EU industrial policy. The first post looks at Hungary’s lithium battery boom— as a case of industrial derisking backfiring in a semi-peripheral state. Orbán’s strategy is unraveling. 👉 thedirigiste.substack.com/p/orban-unpl... 063
David Karas @davidkaras.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Shadman Ali Khan, a former student of mine arguing that Indian communists fail to engage with the experience of Indian Muslims jacobin.com/2024/12/indi...jacobin.comIndian Communists’ Muslim DilemmaThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) used to have a mass base among West Bengal’s landless Muslim peasants. Today, their poor relations symbolize the party’s decline. 010