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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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And that whoever doesn’t abide, will be met with state violence. 18/

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People are taking to the streets in France and Spain (today) and elsewhere (tomorrow)for the same reasons and against the same conditions. And everywhere they are getting the same response: neither the causes nor the consequences of the visible worsening of overall conditions are negotiable 17/

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The question of a collapsing education system is a direct consequence of decisions based on labour market forecasts, the constantly evoked boogeyman of public debt - which always tends to disappear when re-armament and preparing for war is discussed - and "balanced budgets". 16/

Affordable housing is made impossible because of its link to commodification and financialization, processes too familiar for anyone paying attention to the modern world and by no means confined to Spain. 15/

But none of the current movements confine themselves to these topics. Because none of these topics are separate from the overall malaise and lack of future that affects everyone, everywhere. 14/

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The kids in France are in the streets because the education system is collapsing, especially in those parts deemed “too proletarian to give a f**k”. 13/

The movement in Spain was triggered by the entirely justified demand for decent and affordable housing for all and the refusal to stay quiet and simply accept the “laws of the market”. 12/

This follows from a growing realisation (perhaps on all sides) that there is no more space for any politics of integration, for reforms that can calm social conflict, for mediation. 11/

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What is now becoming more apparent, in France, Spain or anywhere else, is that this is now the expected response of the state, *no matter who governs*. 10/

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[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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It would not even suffice to point at the full normalisation of fascist/far-right forces and discourse and the spreading of authoritarianism which today sits in government in many more countries than it did in 2023. 8/

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.. or even to say that this process has been accelerated. (More than 5k young people have been arrested in France in the last days, which is roughly half the amount arrested *during a whole year* of Gilet Jaunes). And already we have protestors mutilated and losing their eyesight. 7/

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

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… 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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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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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 · 13h

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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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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Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5060 personnes (!) dont 87% de mineurs, ont été placées en garde à vue depuis le début du mouvement des lycéens, indique le ministère de la Justice. Un chiffre énorme, c'est la moitié du bilan des Gilets Jaunes après... un an de mobilisation en 2019. Volonté de réduire au silence les jeunes gens...

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

Ce n'est pas une blessure grave, c'est une mutilation. Commise par les forces de l'ordre sur un adolescent.

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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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Anthropic inviting religious representatives and asking them to give their thoughts on whether AI/the machine is “someone” with emotions/morality seems rather appropriate. Religion has always constructed moral principles on behalf of non-existing entities.

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Unavoidably, I think, it’s a mix of chronology (eg Weimar, WW2, postwar etc) and topic (neoliberalism, new deal, Bretton woods etc). Prominent shelves for Marx, the SI and other friends, naturally. Lack of space means literature and poetry are stacked on the piano.

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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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