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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 13m

Followed by @benbraun.social asking the question of what happened to the promises of “universal ownership” of asset management capitalism (hint: they died).

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 16m

Opening panel with sneak pic of all presenters, @iliasalami.bsky.social @jhasselbalch.bsky.social and Hannah Bensussan - very fascinating talks

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My friend, it’s been hibernating for ages. Now it’s just dead.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Παρεμβαίνω κάπως ανάγωγα με ένα απόσπασμα ενος κειμένου που προορίζεται για το επόμενο τεύχος των Σύγχρονων Θεμάτων που ασχολείται με το συγκεκριμένο θέμα στα της Γερμανίας

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whether the AfD will materialize its program is beyond the question. The real point is that it is not incompatible with the existing EU, something that liberal voices have pretended not to hear - tied in the mast of normative liberalism but in reality too easily seduced by the far right.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

State violence, however, is one side of this conflict. On the other side we have solidarity, the formation of new relations and communities, the development of new means of struggle. Because in contrast to the existing political economy, it is we who do not have an alternative. 19/End

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[Note: bravely fought back and neutralised, fascist attempts to attack the encampments in different parts of Spain do nonetheless indicate a more unhinged attitude from these cosplaying Stormtroopers] 9/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching the scenes from France and Spain today, it is *not enough* to say that nothing has changed.. 6/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

… contemporary justifications appear as even more sinister and hypocritical, given that *there is no equivalent threat* and contemporary protestors never use equivalent forms of violence. 5/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet, if liberal support for authoritarianism in the interwar period was based on a real or imagined existential threat emanating from a massive workers’ movement willing to use violence.. 4/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The gist of that thread was that conservative/liberal support for authoritarianism (as, for example, in the form of insane police brutality with full impunity) had a long historical background - one that continues to guide contemporary approaches. 3/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The trigger behind that thread was the truly unbelievable level of police and judicial violence in France at the time. It felt like adding a historical grounding to this was relevant. 2/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New post. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/at-the-bee...

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Re-arranging one’s library is a slow and really enjoyable process. What makes it even slower is the re-discovery of some book, acquired long ago and placed in a random spot, which invites a coffee & cigarette break..

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday is the day to finally arrange the library in order. One fifth is done.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

110 years ago, in September 1916, tanks were used for the very first time. Ranging from July until November, the battle of Somme cost more than 150.000 lives (130.000 on the German side, only in September). Despite this, no real strategic objective was achieved. The front advanced by 2.3km.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

State minister of the interior for the CDU in Saxony called the victory of the left in Berlin “a slap in the face of honest/righteous citizens” because apparently the left doesnt take a clear stand against “criminal gangs, antisemites and left extremists.”

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The fact that nothing is so bad that it could not get worse is not an excuse for defending the existing world, people tend to forget that.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All wars are based on false reports. They are meant to disguise the reality of economic interests and power-hungry idiocy, under the veil of some “noble” cause meant to mobilize *others* to die for it. If AI starts a war it will because some misanthropic morons gave it the power to decide.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Commission has everyone rushing to (re)define non-existing concepts since Merz's original suggestion for Ukraine *didn't quite work*.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In Germany he would get five years

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Éden Teatro, inaugurated in 1914. A symbol of Art Deco at the time, it has become a symbol of what Lisbon is meant to promote today: an apartment hotel. While the facade remains unchanged, the interior of the building - and its history - have been gutted.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Despite various forms of unconvincing denial, the contemporary liberal mainstream seems fully committed to constantly proving the thesis that their role today is to normalize the far-right in all its expressions.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Επίσης όπως δείχνει ο Tooze και άλλες αναλύσεις, το αποτέλεσμα στην Σαξωνίας ήταν λόγω μιας τεράστιας *επιστροφής* στην δημοκρατική διαδικασία όχι λόγω αποχής. Απλά όλοι/ες πήγαν στους φασιστες.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When two versions of nationalism (in this case Milei and Peronism) fight it out, it’s a law of nature that the most stupid one wins.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Scratching my head to remember which left wing magazine thought it was a good idea to promote the BSW by publishing a friendly interview with its leader.. And also which German prominent 'left' intellectual is a member of its 'Basic Values Committee' 🤔

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On the left, a UK Labour government responds to a fascist demo. Next, the far-right's march through EU institutions. The Greek 'centrist' government is waging an 'anti-woke' campaign against school books. Meanwhile, everyone is puzzled as to why the AfD did well in a historically far-right region.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The metaphor of sleepwalking into a war has been overused but it is often hard to escape the fact that the European political, journalist and business class is united under the promise of sending all of us and our kids to die in some trench.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Campeurs-del...

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Particularly important, and not in slightest coincidental, is the recurrent mention in the article of the case of Greece where, in addition to what @profpech.bsky.social mentions here, we also had the EU Parliament damning resolution of February 2024. eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6...

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last year, I began creating a data set of all the existing reports with the intention of sorting out such issues. Among the first problems I had was an inability to get a clear idea about continuity/change in relation to so-called 'follow ups', as the language used is consistently ... euphemistic.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spot on by @profpech.bsky.social on the methodological (among many others) issues with the EU Commission's annual Rule of Law Reports for @verfassungsblog.de.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’d recommend this for example

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, we are actually supposed to accept such statements because today’s Russians are meant to be the same as the Germans of that time. (And Marx said a lot of different things about Russia, no?)

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