Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
And Israel is deliberately starving hundreds of thousands of people.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And Israel is deliberately starving hundreds of thousands of people.
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
Mahmood Mamdani wrote in his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror:
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Mahmood Mamdani wrote in his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror:
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
Excerpt from the chapter on #CripTheVote in Lisa Diedrich's 2024 University of Minnesota Press book, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Excerpt from the chapter on #CripTheVote in Lisa Diedrich's 2024 University of Minnesota Press book, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...
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www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...
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Excerpt from the 11 November 2025 FAO and WFP report 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity November 2025 to May 2026 outlook'.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Excerpt from the 11 November 2025 FAO and WFP report 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity November 2025 to May 2026 outlook'.
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
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November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
Recently came across this, really gesturing toward the content of a democratic anti-fascism, from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, obviously trying to intervene in a particular moment.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Recently came across this, really gesturing toward the content of a democratic anti-fascism, from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, obviously trying to intervene in a particular moment.
On some familiar aspects of the context of the victory of the French electoral Left referred to above, comments of a prominent French Left politician, Edouard Herriot, from his 'The Future of French Democracy', in the July 1934 issue of Foreign Affairs.
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
On some familiar aspects of the context of the victory of the French electoral Left referred to above, comments of a prominent French Left politician, Edouard Herriot, from his 'The Future of French Democracy', in the July 1934 issue of Foreign Affairs.
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
Excerpt on the rise of fascism in general, and disastrous failure of social democracy faced with rising clerical fascism in Austria in particular, from Lorne T. Morgan's 'The Origins and Development of Fascism', in the 1938 collection, Essays in Political Economy: In Honour of E.J. Urwick.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Excerpt on the rise of fascism in general, and disastrous failure of social democracy faced with rising clerical fascism in Austria in particular, from Lorne T. Morgan's 'The Origins and Development of Fascism', in the 1938 collection, Essays in Political Economy: In Honour of E.J. Urwick.
Of course, to gesture toward a fuller context in a way maybe relevant to aspects of this present moment, an excerpt from Arnold J. Zurcher's 'Austria's Corporative Constitution', in the August 1934 issue of The American Political Science Review.
doi.org/10.2307/1947...
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doi.org/10.2307/1947...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Of course, to gesture toward a fuller context in a way maybe relevant to aspects of this present moment, an excerpt from Arnold J. Zurcher's 'Austria's Corporative Constitution', in the August 1934 issue of The American Political Science Review.
doi.org/10.2307/1947...
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doi.org/10.2307/1947...
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Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
From forty years ago, illustrating in detail the US government's long history of providing this service to authoritarian regimes, in order to decorate pretend democracies and help prevent anything approaching an actual one.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
From forty years ago, illustrating in detail the US government's long history of providing this service to authoritarian regimes, in order to decorate pretend democracies and help prevent anything approaching an actual one.
So maybe not the kind of rhetoric and political strategy that were reflected in the words of future Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern in this AP article from the 16 October 1969 edition of the Portland Ma. Press Herald, '3000 Hear Sen. McGovern Label War 'Our Most Tragic Mistake''.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So maybe not the kind of rhetoric and political strategy that were reflected in the words of future Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern in this AP article from the 16 October 1969 edition of the Portland Ma. Press Herald, '3000 Hear Sen. McGovern Label War 'Our Most Tragic Mistake''.
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
Excerpt from Anne Braden's article on an even broader context of post-Greensboror massacre struggles, 'The Klu Klux Klan mentality - A Threat in the 1980s', from the First Quarter 1980 issue of the journal Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Excerpt from Anne Braden's article on an even broader context of post-Greensboror massacre struggles, 'The Klu Klux Klan mentality - A Threat in the 1980s', from the First Quarter 1980 issue of the journal Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Article by Lynora Williams, 'Activists map Klan strategy', on the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre.
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Article by Lynora Williams, 'Activists map Klan strategy', on the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre.
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...