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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this day, remember the US-backed coup against the socialist government in Chile, the murder of Allende and the subsequent torture and murder of thousands of people by the Pinochet regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tznp...
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Morto Allende
YouTube video by Alfredo Bandelli - Topic
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Irrationalitetens triumf
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Meget enig. Det er jo grundlæggende et spørgsmål om vores forhold til og syn på dyrene. Dejligt at det rammer samme tanker andre også har!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Jeg siger noget om svineavl i en kronik i Politiken i dag. Gavelink -> politiken.dk/del/msRbarAH...
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Det er ikke nok at være forarget over svinelandbruget
Ved at fokusere ensidigt på ekstremavl risikerer vi alene at afbøde dens konsekvenser uden altså grundlæggende at rokke ved den avl, der historisk er udviklet til at understøtte den nuværende eksporto
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is what the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, along with her nationalist friends refer to as "a threat against Europe"
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As a commentary on our contemporary condition, Nolan’s Odyssey mourns the crisis of liberalism and ends by expressing hope for a future liberal restoration. Of course, we should reject such nostalgia.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Jeg har været på Nationalmuseet, hvor jeg fandt en god opsummering af en for tiden meget populær bog om “folkelighed”.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Vivek Chibber sadly fails to see that his arguments for market "socialism" lead to a naturalization of orthodox economic theory. His model would still produce the same pathologies as any economy where market competition and profit-maximization are permitted. jacobin.com/2026/05/cent...
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Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t.
Central planners had a rational vision: replace the anarchy of the market with conscious coordination. Vivek Chibber explains why calculation and incentive problems undermined that vision, but a diffe...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I Danmark kommer truslen fra højre ikke fra snak om laktoseintolerans eller kyrilliske t-shirts men derimod i form af højskolesangbog og stegt flæsk. Ikke hardcore raceideologi men hyggeracisme, nationalisme og folkeånd.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Meanwhile, in Denmark, the left embraces reamament and increased military spending in the name of "national defence". The strong tradition of anti-militarism, including both left-social democrats and most of the socialist and communist left, is long gone. jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...
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Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism
Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of sold...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Den nye atomvåbenaftale forringer sikkerheden, øger utrygheden og er blot endnu et skridt i det globale våbenkapløb, hvor Danmark igen igen agerer halehæng i stedet for at holde fast i at gå en selvstændig vej.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Mit bedste råd til Rådet for kulturel modstandskraft vil være at definere "kulturel modstandskraft" som evnen til at modstå politisk pres for at instrumentalisere kultur som led i en national oprustning, herunder presset for at oprette et råd for kulturel modstandskraft. www.dr.dk/nyheder/kult...
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Rane Willerslev og 14 andre skal rådgive minister om 'kulturel modstandskraft'
'Rådet for kulturel modstandskraft' skal styrke den kulturelle oprustning.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Med en rød pølse i den ene hånd og en håndbold i den anden kan vi i fællesskab afskrække Putin! www.dr.dk/nyheder/kult...
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Rane Willerslev og 14 andre skal rådgive minister om 'kulturel modstandskraft'
'Rådet for kulturel modstandskraft' skal styrke den kulturelle oprustning.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Read this excellent piece about the global labor regimes behind the AI hype!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
They never should have been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place to fight for U.S. interests in completely futile and criminal wars that ultimately made things worse.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
ah ja, selvfølgelig!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Looking for literature on the concept of "technological fix" or related concepts?
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"we had boats landing there, also"... We're truly living in an era of aimless, mad capitalism and irrational imperialist decadence
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The red peasant ploughing amidst the ruins of evil lordship and capitalism preparing the soil for a good harvest for all working people
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Marie Thøgersen @mariethogersen.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Pleaseeee can we stop pretending that the main problem with the US attacking and taking control over Venezuela is that they for once haven’t bothered framing their imperialism in international legal discourse? International law won’t save us, it was literally created to justify shit like this
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Do we really believe that appealing to “international law” can prevent imperialist aggression? History teaches otherwise. We need to abolish the system that creates the conditions for such aggression: global capitalism. If that seems somehow unrealistic, it’s simply necessary to make it less so.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thanks for a great read, Nate! I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on the extent to which the structure of the capitalist mode of production gives rise to historically specific forms of consciousness (fetishism, mystification, etc.). Have you, by any chance, read Sewell’s work on this?
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Ah yes, the repression of origins in capitalist ideology. Where does he say that?
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
has been downplayed and replaced by a narrative of entrepreneurial landlords and market-oriented farmers. Dimmock's book returns us to the classic story of Tudor enclosures and demonstrates how the very first appearance of agrarian capitalism in the world was political and violent to its core! 2/2
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This book is essential reading for historians of capitalism and agriculture. It provides new evidence of the crucial role of peasant expropriation by large landowners in the emergence of agrarian capitalism in England during the 15th-16th centuries. For years, the role of peasant expropriation 1/2
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
the University of Southern Denmark and Aarhus University. Read more on linkedin (in Danish): www.linkedin.com/posts/det-gr...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I'm very happy to announce that I have received a large grant from the Augustinus Foundation for a research project on the industrialisation of animal production in Denmark. The project is based at the Green Museum (where I work) and I will lead a research group of excellent researchers from ->
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Det Grønne Museum får 4,3 mio. til nyt forskningsprojekt Spørgsmål om dyrevelfærd, klima og miljø fylder i dag meget i debatten om landbruget. Alligevel ved vi overraskende lidt om, hvornår og… | Det...
Det Grønne Museum får 4,3 mio. til nyt forskningsprojekt Spørgsmål om dyrevelfærd, klima og miljø fylder i dag meget i debatten om landbruget. Alligevel ved vi overraskende lidt om, hvornår og hvorda...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks Mikkel!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If “nationalise the entire economy” means throwing the market economy into the dustbin of history, count me in!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
parties in Europe have forgotten the disastrous lesson of 1914, and are once again lining up behind national rearmament. And just as in 1914, this militarism is justified by invoking the fear of “Russian absolutism”. 2/2
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On this day in 1914, Karl Liebknecht stood as the only SPD deputy in the German Reichstag to vote against war credits. The SPD majority’s abandonment of its internationalist antimilitarism destroyed the second International as Europe descended into a catastrophic war. Today, many socialist 1/2
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Vi må ikke se, hvad der rent faktisk foregår i de danske svinestalde. Den private ejendomsret trumfer mediernes ret til at informere offentligheden. landbrugsavisen.dk/retten-forby...
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Retten forbyder brug af skjulte optagelser fra Jeppe Bloch Nielsens grisestald
Dokumentarkompagniet og TV 2 må foreløbigt ikke vise video og billeder, som dyreaktivister har optaget ulovligt i Jeppe Bloch Nielsens stalde ved Vejen. Retten i Odense har vurderet, at offentliggørel...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Socialdemokratiets stemmeandel er også generelt nedadgående i perioden, men slet ikke lige så drastisk og med markante udsving. Stemmeandel og organisering i befolkningen følges altså ikke længere ad, som det gjorde i massepolitikkens periode.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Det er rigtigt, de klassiske folkepartier er for længst døde og borte - sammen med andre masseorganisationsformer i samfundet. Partier i dag kan selvfølgelig godt få mange stemmer, men er uden organisering og som regel flygtigt. "Ruling the void", som Peter Mair udtrykte det.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Socialdemokrater har i disse dage travlt med at udråbe sig som det eneste "folkeparti" i Danmark. Men Socialdemokratiet har altså ikke været et reelt folkeparti i begrebets klassiske forstand som et organiseret masseparti forankret i folkelige organisationer i mange mange årtier.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Kaare Dybvad viser her totalt manglende forståelse for sit eget partis rolle i de sidste mange årtiers liberalisering, markedsgørelse og stigende ulighed. I stedet har han fundet på den absurde idé, at alt handler om indvandring. www.information.dk/indland/2025...
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Kaare Dybvad: »Enhedslisten er et parti for studerende og indvandrere … men det behøver man jo ikke gå og skamme sig over«
Pelle Dragsted forstår ikke, hvad arbejdervælgerne oplever som vigtigt, mener Kaare Dybvad Bek, og han forstår heller ikke, at forudsætningen for progressiv politik – for et samfund med ligestilling, ...
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Jeg forstår ikke, hvordan den almindelige danskers oksekødsovs ikke er et problem. Landbrugets udledninger udgør over 1/3 af samlede udledninger - med animalsk produktion som hovedbidrager. Mængden af oksekød vi hver især kan spise inden for de plantære grænser er forsvindende lille.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Det burde være en forudsætning for at blive borgmester i København, at man har deltaget i verdensungdomskongres i Moskva. youtu.be/FbIApzmSH5I?...
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Verdensungdomssangen DKU noder
YouTube video by leon lauritsen
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
Picture of two copies of the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" published by ProblemaMikkel Flohr standing on a chair introducing the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" next to Magnus Møller Ziegler displaying a copy of the book at the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Aarhus UniversityMikkel Flohr and Magnus Møller Ziegler standing on chairs in front of multiple participants at the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Aarhus University, about to present the book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future"
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Det er endnu vildere - mener det faktisk er 5,7 mia kg om året
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Tak Mikkel!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I liked creation lake! Perhaps mostly because all the tiqqun and invisible committee stuff I’ve read made a reappearance in my mind
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ah ok, det er den her også. Læste den for flere år siden sammen med The Unseen. Virkelig godt!
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Er der forskel?
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Helst engelsk eller tysk, ikke noget specielt tema
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Need a new novel for bedtime reading. Preferably something recent. Any suggestions?
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A good question that gets even more complicated by the fact that the cooperatives produced primarily for exports - consumers were British. What did make a difference, I think, was the social democratic cottar policies and protection of smallholder farming.
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Esben Bøgh Sørensen @esbenboegh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In agriculture, my take is that the cooperatives did speed up the transition to capitalist farming compared to other countries. In this piece, we briefly touch upon a comparison with France, although I would like to explore that point more in depth. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Organizational Accumulation: Revisiting Capitalist Transitions and the Danish Farmer Cooperatives From the 19th to the 21st Centuries
When, how and why does farming become capitalist? This question has long shaped debates in agrarian studies and economic history. Although traditional analyses emphasize market dependency and competi...
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