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The Zetkin Collective

@zetkincollective.bsky.social
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The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026
It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.
EPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants

Trump EPA delivers reliable and affordable energy in the largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history

September 14, 2026
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The @zetkincollective.bsky.social's Great Driving Right Show is the book we all need to read to fully understand our moment.
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Campact e.V. @campact.de · 07/09/2026
14.000 Menschen sind heute in Berlin spontan auf der Straße um solidarisch an der Seite der Menschen in Sachsen-Anhalt zu stehen. ✊ Rechtsextreme gehören NIEMALS in eine Regierung. Wir stehen zusammen!
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Climate Crisis & Democratic Disaster 📆 30th October, 10.45am - 3.30pm 📍Balham On climate crisis, eco-fascism, the far-right and cars, AI + more @bekadiski.bsky.social @zetkincollective.bsky.social @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Free tix ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-cr...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brilliant analysis by @zetkincollective.bsky.social on how the inversion of actually existing crises fuels moral panics & drives the broader process of fascisation, which only exacerbates the crises of the present www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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The Great Driving Right Show
CARS, CLIMATE COLLAPSE, AND THE
INVERTED CRISIS
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The inverted crisis
Amid an accelerating organic crisis the interlocking of economic. political and climatic turbulence the far right's strategy of denial, disavowal and delay turns from defensive to offensive. Through a succession of moral panics, this offensive and aggressive turn chacterises not simply the extremist fringe but also far-right parties and governments. In the introduction, we named this phase of conspiratorial acceleration the fifth phase of denial. Building on the anti-ecological and anti-migrant elements of previous phases, fossil capital and the far right perceive oppositional threats as existential in nature: the life' of fossil fuels and Western civilisation is at stake.
Executing an offensive counterstrategy not only means defending existing moral economies of mobility, then, but also contesting perceived progressive victories in the domain of cultural politics. It is from this hegemonic battle that a new conspiratorial architecture emerges: the inverted crisis.
The inverted crisis is the general articulation of the far right's moral panic cycle in this conjuncture. It refers to moments and movements through which specific moral panics converge into a 'general conspiracy' using strategies of inversion. Propelling the self-radicalising politics of the far right, it is used to channel social anxiety against the energy transition and against progressive momentum wherever it may appear. The inverted crisis is thus a core logic within ongoing processes of fascisation, and a driving force in the rise of fossil fascism today.
The concept of "inverted crisis' can be used at different levels of abstraction, however, with both a narrower and a broader meaning.
In the narrower sense, we use 'inverted crisis' to denote the far right's inversion of the climate crisis. In this framing, it is not climate change, but rather climate mitigation policies and their proponents that present an existential threat to society. …
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026
they’re making ai-generated, pro-concentration camp propaganda
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analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Heute in Hamburg! 17 Uhr (Einlass ab 16:30) // Metropolis Kino // Kleine Theaterstraße 10
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You heard it here first
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just got my copy - excited to dig in
Cover of The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It was a joy to be on "Less Worse", alongside @aprilanson.bsky.social, to discuss what's bad at present and speculative futures in which things might be less... bad. (Ecofascism and fossil fascism are... bad!) Many thanks to @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and Andrew Fitzgerald for hosting us at RPI!
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You heard it here first
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"China’s auto factories are building so many cars the global shipping industry can’t keep up Some automakers are so desperate to get vehicles to Europe, Australia & Latin America they're squeezing them in containers more commonly used to ship furniture, clothes and electronics" @katemac.bsky.social
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There Aren’t Enough Ships to Handle China’s Booming Car Exports
As demand slumps at home, Chinese cars are flooding other markets—and testing the shipping industry.
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!
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der Freitag @freitag.de · 09/08/2026
Für die Energiewende brauchen wir Rohstoffe, doch ihr Abbau zerstört Ökosysteme und verschärft soziale Konflikte. Thea Riofrancos erforscht in ihrem jüngsten Buch diese Widersprüche und erklärt, warum E-Autos allein nicht die Lösung sind (F+) www.freitag.de/autoren/nina...
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Lithium für die Energiewende: Warum grüner Kapitalismus neue Konflikte schafft
Für die Energiewende brauchen wir Rohstoffe, doch ihr Abbau zerstört Ökosysteme und verschärft soziale Konflikte. Thea Riofrancos erforscht in ihrem jüngsten Buch diese Widersprüche und erklärt,…
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Check out this stunning new masterpiece from my comrades in the @zetkincollective.bsky.social. *The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism*, OUT TODAY, on @versobooks.bsky.social. Please order a copy or two, and share the excellent news!
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The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
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Tatjana Söding @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
discount on books 🤝 discussing books with great minds
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
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bekadiski.bsky.social @bekadiski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Can't wait!
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Dominik Herold @dominikherold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Kaube "übersieht, dass die Pflichten des Staates und die der Zivilgesellschaft nicht die gleichen sind: dass der Staat eine nicht verbotene Partei rechtsstaatlich behandeln muss, heißt nicht, dass auch die Bürger ihr diese politische Normalität schulden" @ralfmichaels.bsky.social & Anne Gräfe.
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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Great work on planning from @christophsorg.bsky.social @futurehistories.bsky.social @waltherzeug.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social and more get shout-outs (and will be discussed in greater detail in the German print edition)! Order here: www.oekom.de/buch/die-hal...
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Die halbe Erde | oekom verlag
Die Welt brennt - und die alten Antworten reichen nicht mehr. In einer Zeit, in der demokratische Institutionen weltweit unter Druck geraten und die
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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Heute hat Clara Zetkin Geburtstag. Die Mitbegründerin der proletarischen Frauenbewegung wurde 1857 im sächsischen Wiederau geboren. #AnDiesemTag 🧵
Sharepic mit dem Text: Am 5. Juli 1857 wurde Clara Zetkin geboren
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Tatjana Söding @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Unser neues Buch kommt genau in einem Monat raus und man kann es jetzt schon vorbestellen🫰
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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In a @versobooks.bsky.social blog post, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to @zetkincollective.bsky.social researcher @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social about the climate movement and scientific utopianism. www.indep.network/verso-blog-p...
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Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth Socialism
In a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of…
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
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Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
@zetkincollective.bsky.social: "Every time a European far-right party denies or downplays climate change, it makes a statement about immigration."
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This book by @zetkincollective.bsky.social will be the one to read on the topic when it comes out with @versobooks.bsky.social in August.
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The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Mattei fu partigiano e antifascista, il piano Mattei del governo Meloni è fascismo fossile a la @zetkincollective.bsky.social www.lastampa.it/politica/202...
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Gli eredi Mattei a Palazzo Chigi: “Via il nostro nome dal piano Africa”
Pec del nipote alla premier: «Non usi il cognome per il Piano, lei distante dalle scelte di mio zio»
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bekadiski.bsky.social @bekadiski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Sparked by Richard Tice's plans for fracking as 'our patriotic duty', I wrote something with George Edwards of @zetkincollective.bsky.social about the appeal of Reform's fossil nationalism for @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
My attempt to draw a Venn diagram for Palestine solidarity & mobility justice activism. @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Our conversation with @mykaabramson.bsky.social about her terrific new book, Cartographies of Empire. With @nedra-abada.bsky.social, Kafui Attoh (@cunyslu.bsky.social), George Edwards (@zetkincollective.bsky.social), & @lclaberge.bsky.social. Hosted by me and @yosra999.bsky.social.
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New Routes in Transnational American Studies #3 - Cartographies of Empire
YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Liberals at the wheel of *the great driving right show*
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Stop Fosilak @stopfosilak.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Piel blanca, combustible negro @zetkincollective.bsky.social
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Join us (George Edwards) on Thursday!
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
On 25 September, join me and @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with author Myka Tucker-Abramson about her new book: Cartographies of Empire With @nedra-abada.bsky.social, Kafui Attoh (@cunyslu.bsky.social), George Edwards (@zetkincollective.bsky.social), & @lclaberge.bsky.social.
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Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel & American Hegemony
A "New Routes in Transnational American Studies" Readers-Meet-Author Conversation
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trump is just saying *exactly* the stuff Malm & @zetkincollective.bsky.social examine in White Skin, Black Fuel! @versobooks.bsky.social
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
ISSUE #2 OUT NOW! Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more! Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#UKCarCulture prepares the ground for the impunity of these displays of xenophobic nationalism, in terms of how so many laws are optional for car owners, and, as @zetkincollective.bsky.social has brilliantly articulated, in terms of automobility's affinity with fascism.
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The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...
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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
@zetkincollective.bsky.social en 'Piel blanca, combustible negro. Los peligros del fascismo fósil', de Andreas Malm & Zetkin Collective. capitanswing.com/libros/piel-...
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ProjectAllende.org / ProjectAllende @ substack @projectallende.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
salvage.zone/the-great-dr... @zetkincollective.bsky.social
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The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...
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José Luis Rodríguez @jlrodriguez.eurosky.social · 20/07/2025
A quien le interese esto, una buena lectura para el domingo sobre el coche de combustión interna como símbolo y pilar del fascismo contemporáneo. De @zetkincollective.bsky.social en @corrientecalida.com.
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El gran espectáculo del volantazo a la derecha - Corriente Cálida
EA nivel simbólico, afectivo y material, el coche le sirve a la extrema derecha como «vehículo» para conducir la participación apolítica en el statu quo hacia formas reaccionarias de política antiecol...
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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
then we must conclude that much of the political spectrum, insofar as they remain committed to fossil fuels, is pushing towards this far-right horizon.» Afterword, in Political Ecologies of the far right, by @zetkincollective.bsky.social www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Würde als Treiber/Verstärker der faschistischen Energie/Dynamik noch die strukturelle Zuspitzung des Widerspruchs von Kapitalakkumulation und Ökologie im Anschluss an @zetkincollective.bsky.social o. @ulrichbrand.bsky.social / Markus Wissen mit aufnehmen. (Vgl. www.oekom.de/buch/kapital...)
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Kapitalismus am Limit | oekom verlag
»Ein brillant geschriebenes, von großem empirischen und konzeptuellen Wissen genährtes Zeitdokument!«Jean Ziegler»Ich habe mich auf der Stelle festgelesen.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“As climate disasters land with an increasingly regular rhythm, their causes and consequences are filtered through the same conspiratorial lens spread from the most prominent positions and platforms.” @zetkincollective.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
copies in the wild!
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