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- Reposted by Legal FormI've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
- In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
- In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
- Matthew Dimick wades into the debate on the political utility of 'checks and balances' in the era of Trump. legalform.blog/2025/10/14/c...
- The first entry in our mini-symposium on Marx’s ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, John Milios charts the relationship between bourgeois legal forms and the dictatorship of the proletariat. legalform.blog/2025/10/06/d...
- Ryan Breeden's translation of Karl Korsch's review/engagement with Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner. legalform.blog/2025/09/10/k...
- Reposted by Legal FormWherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social Tis a chunky tome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
- Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation. legalform.blog/2025/07/29/f...
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- Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
- Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...
- Reposted by Legal Formhey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it. bsky.app/profile/jour...
- Reposted by Legal FormNew publication 🙌 It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System. It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
- D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/l...
- Reposted by Legal FormMe and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.
- @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials: legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...
- @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials: legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...
- 'The ‘smartness’ of these sanctions lies.. more in their ability to enable the British state to appear to ‘take action’ against Israel, whilst preserving the fundamental ideological and material realities of Israel’s settler-colonial project and genocide.'
- August H. Nimtz on LA: 'The events in Los Angeles have the potential of being an important learning opportunity—the necessary preparatory work for the real revolutionary moment that Trump redux inexorably promises.' legalform.blog/2025/06/16/l...
- 'It might be tempting to see what is happening to pro-Palestinian activists in the US as an exclusive attribute of the Trump administration… But that would be a mistake.' Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.
- 'More "communal" forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards'. Levi Rafael Groenewold writes on Pashukanis, technical standards, and the fate of the legal form.
- Rosie Woodhouse writes on Staatsräson: Germany joins the US in pursuing 'repression via deportation of political action against their respective governments' ongoing material and ideological facilitation of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.'
- Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitrios Kivotidis's THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRACY (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and bringing communist ideas into a field traditionally dominated by mainstream perspectives.
- 'Erdoğan’s push for a new constitution is driven by the shifting trajectory of Turkey’s political regime and its corresponding state form'. Ulaş Karadağ on the political economy of constitutional change in Turkey.
- 'Instead of abstract equality before the law, the classless society is founded on the equality of individual human needs.' Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the social content of legal form.
- 'Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. Never to be forgotten is that the only job the septuagenarian ever held before 2017 was that of a capitalist boss. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House'. August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US.
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