Adam Baltner
@adambaltner.bsky.social
A dialectically interwoven whole.
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My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)
1/ Ich habe für die Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft einen Beitrag über das Völkerbund-Programm für den finanziellen Wiederaufbau von Österreich geschrieben. Sein eigentliches Ziel bestand darin, die Wirtschaft vor demokratischer Einflussnahme zu schützen.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM
1/ Ich habe für die Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft einen Beitrag über das Völkerbund-Programm für den finanziellen Wiederaufbau von Österreich geschrieben. Sein eigentliches Ziel bestand darin, die Wirtschaft vor demokratischer Einflussnahme zu schützen.
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‘If there is a “democratic road” to socialism, it will take a party and cadre strategically prepared to find it and take it, knowing full well the risks that it entails.’
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Finding a Road Beyond Reformism
What would it take to move from winning a program of egalitarian reforms within capitalism to fighting for a change of the system itself?
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September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
‘If there is a “democratic road” to socialism, it will take a party and cadre strategically prepared to find it and take it, knowing full well the risks that it entails.’
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www.left-notes.com/p/finding-a-...
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»Meint die Linke es ernst mit ihrem Anspruch, die Gesellschaft radikal zu verändern, wird sie mit viel mehr Gegenwind rechnen müssen als bei Gaza«, schreibt Jacobin Editor-in-Chief Loren Balhorn in unserer neuen Printausgabe.
Glaubwürdigkeit hat ihren Preis
Im Angesicht des Genozids in Gaza muss jede linke Partei eindeutig auf der Seite der Opfer stehen – auch zum Preis kurzfristiger politischer Rückschläge.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
»Meint die Linke es ernst mit ihrem Anspruch, die Gesellschaft radikal zu verändern, wird sie mit viel mehr Gegenwind rechnen müssen als bei Gaza«, schreibt Jacobin Editor-in-Chief Loren Balhorn in unserer neuen Printausgabe.
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Hi friends/comrades in Vienna, I’ll be leading a monthly Palestinian Literature reading circle, starting in November and going into next summer. All interested participants are welcome. Specific dates and location will be announced in due time.
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hi friends/comrades in Vienna, I’ll be leading a monthly Palestinian Literature reading circle, starting in November and going into next summer. All interested participants are welcome. Specific dates and location will be announced in due time.
My friend and former teacher Uli Plass with a review of the Princeton University Press translation of capital that appeared last year.
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More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter
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August 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
My friend and former teacher Uli Plass with a review of the Princeton University Press translation of capital that appeared last year.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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AUFRECHT / INDIGNITY wird am 15. September auf Deutsch veröffentlicht! Hier ist mein Veranstaltungskalender - ich freue mich darauf viele von euch dort zu sehen 😍❤️🧿🐥📁 ! @suhrkamp.de @renner-institut.at @blnensemble.bsky.social @normativeorders.bsky.social @forum-midem.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
AUFRECHT / INDIGNITY wird am 15. September auf Deutsch veröffentlicht! Hier ist mein Veranstaltungskalender - ich freue mich darauf viele von euch dort zu sehen 😍❤️🧿🐥📁 ! @suhrkamp.de @renner-institut.at @blnensemble.bsky.social @normativeorders.bsky.social @forum-midem.bsky.social
Honestly one of the best things I’ve ever written
August 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Honestly one of the best things I’ve ever written
@kevinmpotter.bsky.social has a brilliant paper out on Ghassān Kanafānī’s Returning to Haifa.
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Development Through Dispossession: Ghassān Kanafānī’s Returning to Haifa, the World-System, and Palestinian Belonging – Coils of the Serpent
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August 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@kevinmpotter.bsky.social has a brilliant paper out on Ghassān Kanafānī’s Returning to Haifa.
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Incredibly important book!
Help Historical Materialism publish Hans Hautmann’s *History of the Austrian Council Movement 1918–24* (*Geschichte der Rätebewegung in Österreich 1918–24*).
Hans Hautmann’s 1987 volume History of the Austrian Council Movement 1918-24
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July 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Incredibly important book!
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Forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series: *Revolution as Realpolitik: Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman* by Florian Wilde, trans. Adam Baltner
and Julia Damphouse.
and Julia Damphouse.
Revolution as Realpolitik
"Revolution as Realpolitik" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.
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July 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series: *Revolution as Realpolitik: Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman* by Florian Wilde, trans. Adam Baltner
and Julia Damphouse.
and Julia Damphouse.
@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December:
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Revolution as Realpolitik
"Revolution as Realpolitik" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December:
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Hinter dem Faschismus steht das Kapital. My take on all of this: www.jacobin.de/artikel/oest...
Für NEOS und ÖVP ist Herbert Kickl das geringere Übel
Liberale und Konservative liefern Österreich lieber den Rechtsextremen aus, als Zugeständnisse im Sozialbereich zu machen. Damit zeigen sie erneut, was Linke schon immer wussten: Hinter dem Faschismus...
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January 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hinter dem Faschismus steht das Kapital. My take on all of this: www.jacobin.de/artikel/oest...
My Jacobin article on Salzburg, now in English: “The KPÖ’s achievement in Salzburg demonstrates that the anger large swathes of the population justifiably feel at the political status quo does not have to feed into resentment and reaction.“
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Austria’s Communists Are Curbing the Far Right’s Rise
Austria’s Communist Party just increased its vote by over 20% in the Salzburg city elections — and it now has a shot at winning the mayor’s office. It shows that a party that credibly fights for worki...
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March 15, 2024 at 8:36 AM
My Jacobin article on Salzburg, now in English: “The KPÖ’s achievement in Salzburg demonstrates that the anger large swathes of the population justifiably feel at the political status quo does not have to feed into resentment and reaction.“
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Mein Jacobin-Beitrag zu Salzburg: “Der Erfolg der KPÖ in Salzburg beweist, dass der gerechtfertigte Unmut großer Teile der Bevölkerung gegenüber der herrschenden Politik nicht zwangsläufig in Ressentiment und Reaktion münden muss.” jacobin.de/artikel/oest...
Die KPÖ ist das wirksamste Rezept gegen Rechtsextreme
Bei den Gemeinderatswahlen in Salzburg legten Österreichs Kommunisten um fast 20 Prozent zu. Damit zeigen sie, dass eine linke Partei, die die Interessen der arbeitenden Bevölkerung glaubwürdig vertri...
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March 11, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Mein Jacobin-Beitrag zu Salzburg: “Der Erfolg der KPÖ in Salzburg beweist, dass der gerechtfertigte Unmut großer Teile der Bevölkerung gegenüber der herrschenden Politik nicht zwangsläufig in Ressentiment und Reaktion münden muss.” jacobin.de/artikel/oest...
Devastating article from an anonymous graduate student.
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How Am I? | An Anonymous Graduate Student
I am an Arab woman who studies the Middle East. My students know what I believe and what I am grieving every day. It is on my face, in my posture. Even as my field of study comes under attack, as thos...
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January 14, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Devastating article from an anonymous graduate student.
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Just had a flashback for no particular reason whatsoever to people debating whether the storming of the Capitol on January 6 was a coup or a putsch (French and German words for the same thing).
January 13, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Just had a flashback for no particular reason whatsoever to people debating whether the storming of the Capitol on January 6 was a coup or a putsch (French and German words for the same thing).
Wie kann man die Bombardierung Yemens durch die USA sehen und noch denken, „die USA sind die Guten, bei einem von ihnen geführten Militärbündnis müssen wir unbedingt dabei sein“?
January 12, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Wie kann man die Bombardierung Yemens durch die USA sehen und noch denken, „die USA sind die Guten, bei einem von ihnen geführten Militärbündnis müssen wir unbedingt dabei sein“?
Immortal science of Marxism-Leninism, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot chance, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
January 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Immortal science of Marxism-Leninism, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot chance, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The KPÖ and the PTB get a shout out here as counter-examples to the negative trends facing the European left. But one could go further and connect their particular collaboration to the author’s argument for transnational initiatives beyond the EU.
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For Europe’s Left, International Solidarity Is More Rhetoric Than Reality
Through years of austerity, Europe’s radical-left parties spoke of a common challenge to EU neoliberalism. But without any real shared strategy, parties focused on domestic politics are rarely able ...
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December 27, 2023 at 8:54 PM
The KPÖ and the PTB get a shout out here as counter-examples to the negative trends facing the European left. But one could go further and connect their particular collaboration to the author’s argument for transnational initiatives beyond the EU.
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“In UE, as has been our practice as a democratic rank-and-file labor union, we have a responsibility to engage in an aggressive struggle for a better life for all workers, and that shouldn’t end at our border.”
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The United Electrical Workers Are Calling for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
The United Electrical Workers is joining other major US unions like the UAW in demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza. We spoke with a top officer about UE’s call for a cease-fire and soli...
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December 24, 2023 at 2:31 PM
“In UE, as has been our practice as a democratic rank-and-file labor union, we have a responsibility to engage in an aggressive struggle for a better life for all workers, and that shouldn’t end at our border.”
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„Als Linke lehnen wir die Idee ab, dass ein Staat nur als Ethnokratie existieren kann, und betrachten diese Behauptung als grundsätzlich reaktionär und nicht mit den grundlegendsten Menschenrechten vereinbar.“
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Interview mit den Judeobolschewiener✡innen – Kommunistische Jugend Österreichs (KJÖ)
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December 19, 2023 at 11:45 AM
„Als Linke lehnen wir die Idee ab, dass ein Staat nur als Ethnokratie existieren kann, und betrachten diese Behauptung als grundsätzlich reaktionär und nicht mit den grundlegendsten Menschenrechten vereinbar.“
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Very much looking forward to reading
We have now made freely available the preprint edition of our forthcoming special issue dedicated to 'Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism'. The result of several years' work and research, all the articles can be found on our website here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/special-issu....
December 18, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Very much looking forward to reading
Very much looking forward to reading: new Historical Materialism preprint "Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism" www.historicalmaterialism.org/special-issu...
Issue 32 (1&2): Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism | Historical Materialism
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December 18, 2023 at 11:25 AM
Very much looking forward to reading: new Historical Materialism preprint "Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism" www.historicalmaterialism.org/special-issu...