Heather Cox Richardson unpacks the complex history of radicalism, examining its evolving role in shaping modern politics and offering essential context for today's polarized landscape. Her latest letter traces how the term has been defined, weaponized, and reclaimed across eras, revealing patterns that echo in current debates over democracy and reform. Readers gain clearer insight into why these ideas remain so charged. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/radicalism
#History #PoliticalThought
#politicalthought — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #politicalthought, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/120452/ Wilhelm Roepke’s Humane Economics – Ralph Ancil #Conservatism #Geneva #PoliticalPhilosophy #PoliticalThought #RalphAncil #WilhelmRoepke
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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https://repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1100010
The life and death of Anacharsis Cloots weigh on my mind as representative of the tensions between "universal" and "national" ideals in the history of the left from the French Revolution onwards.
Although "internationalism" might seem one way of resolving these tensions, only a sanguine superficiality can find in this more than a partial solution.
Image: Anacharsis Cloots -- Edme Quenedey (1756-1830), dessinateur et graveur -- Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE QB-370 (45)-FT 4 -- Public domain -- Wikimedia Commons.
#AnacharsisCloots #History #PoliticalThought #FrenchRevolution #Cosmopolitanism #Republicanism #Nationalism #LeftWingThought #IntellectualHistory #Internationalism #18thCenturyHistory #France
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SOCRATES' GHOST HAUNTS DEMOCRACY AGAIN
Why Socrates' method of questioning is still relevant for understanding democracy and citizen decision-making in 2026.
#Socrates, #Democracy, #Philosophy, #CitizenPower, #PoliticalThought
https://newsletter.tf/socrates-questions-democracy-citizen-decision-making-2026/
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Socrates' questioning method, used over 2,400 years ago, is still being discussed today. His ideas challenge how we think about democracy and who makes decisions.
#Socrates, #Democracy, #Philosophy, #CitizenPower, #PoliticalThought
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Ancient Echoes Shape Present PRC - Law and Governance Reimagined
Daniel Bell explains how ancient Chinese political ideas influence today's PRC laws and government. Learn about Legalism's impact and historical state structures.
#ChineseLaw, #PoliticalThought, #DanielBell, #PRCGovernance, #AncientChina
https://newsletter.tf/ancient-chinese-thought-prc-law-governance/
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Ancient Chinese political thought continues to shape modern PRC law and governance, influencing strategies like 'legal warfare' and the emphasis on order.
#ChineseLaw, #PoliticalThought, #DanielBell, #PRCGovernance, #AncientChina
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Historically, even modest challenges to hierarchy have often been treated as dangerous ideas.
My latest post explores the overlap between anarchism and Quakerism beyond the stereotypes: consensus, participation, conscience, mutual aid, and distrust of concentrated power.
New post: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/
#Anarchism #Quakers #Consensus #Grassroots #SocialJustice #PoliticalThought #MutualAid #FriendsOnTheFediverse
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Compare and contrast
https://youtube.com/shorts/xMDxRzqpbF0?si=EPC6Z1K8Vhm8i9iA
with
Strictly speaking, the one does not contradict the other, as each chiefly addresses different topics: the unhoused in public spaces on the one hand, public drug use on the other.
Yet a difference in attitude is certainly present here, as well as a difference in the understanding of freedom as a value.
I don't have a pat answer about the "correctness" of either approach. I do know that progressives should be thinking hard about these matters
and be ready for challenging discussion about public space, inclusion, and the justifiability or otherwise of paternalism with regard to housing, drug use, and mental illness.#PublicSpace #ThirdSpaces #Unhoused #Homeless #DrugUse #Freedom #PoliticalThought #PoliticalPhilosophy #Politics #MentalIllness
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Justice Behind a Veil of Ignorance: A Personal Reflection on Rawls’ Idea
In his philosophy, John Rawls proposes that the principles of justice are best chosen behind a "veil of ignorance," ensuring fairness and impartiality. This idea challenges us to imagine a society where decisions are made without bias, aiming for equality and justice for all—even if such an ideal seems difficult to achieve in reality. -
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Is leadership about moral comfort or lasting order? The Arthashastra forces that choice. What would you protect first? #Arthashastra #Kautilya #Chanakya #AncientIndia #Statecraft #Governance #Strategy #Leadership #Power #PoliticalThought
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Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm
Core chapters explore T’s
#pacifism, #anarchism,
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A book I want to reread is C.B. Macpherson's "The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism".
#PoliticalThought #PoliticalTheory #PoliticalPhilosophy #CBMacpherson ##DemocraticTheory #PossessiveIndividualism #Canada #Liberalism #Socialism #CanadianIntellectuals #CanadianThought
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As the Austin Chronicle article notes, there are grounds to believe the School of Civic will suck resources out of existing institutions for research and teaching in the liberal arts at UT.
Don't be fooled by the pretense that this is merely about reviving study of "Great Books".
UT already has a center where undergraduates can undertake the study of core texts and ideas of the western tradition under the direction of a leading Straussian scholar, Tom Pangle:https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/
I suspect that Rufo et al. are unhappy with this center because Pangle is an East Coast Straussian, not a West Coast Straussian; see this Jeet Heer article for the distinction between these two currents of Straussian thought:
https://newrepublic.com/article/140933/failure-pro-trump-intellectualism
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#Tolstoy died today in 1910. His #politicalthought is still relevant & alive today. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism
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Today is 4th-year🎂 of 3rd volume of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with Matthew Adams:https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/bbb/ including essays on #AbrahamHeyn, #HerbertRead, #LeoTolstoy, #DanielGuérin, #MartinBuber, #mysticism & #spiritualanarchism. Includes 1/ essay from me on #Tolstoy’s #politicalthought, 2/ co-authored intro discussing ‘#religiousness’ of political #ideologies such as #anarchism
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Oxford Political Thought Seminar on 8 May with Tahera Qutbuddin and Nebil Husayn as speakers, addressing the theme of "Alids."
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7o2XvHfAT9CNFYoHI5K53g
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1. #RussianMilitary
2. #PoliticalThought
3. #UnitedStates
4. #PoliticalCrisis
5. #Trumpists
6. #RussiaUSRelations
7. #UkraineCrisis
8. #MilitaryAid
9. #EuropeanAid
10. #USFunding
11. #Geopolitics
12. #InternationalRelations
13. #MilitarySupport
14. #ForeignPolicy
15. #SecurityConcerns
16. #EurasianPolitics
17. #Diplomacy
18. #GlobalAffairs
19. #ConflictResolution
20. #StrategicAlliances
21. #NationalSecurity
22. #DefenseStrategy
23. #MilitaryBalance
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In recent years people have been reading - or re-reading - Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in the hope that it might shed light on what is happening in our time, even though it was published just under three quarters of a century ago, in 1951.
The following year saw the publication of W.H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles”. Like Arendt’s book, Auden’s poem was shaped by the horrors of the decades preceding its publication, yet it too can still offer our age insight.
#HannahArendt #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism #WHAuden #TheShieldOfAchilles #PoliticalThought #Poetry
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This is what lead me to the book: https://grist.org/economics/slow-down-do-less-a-qa-with-the-author-who-introduced-degrowth-to-a-mass-audience/ and so then I asked the library to order it, and lo and behold! They did!
#libraries #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Economics #PoliticalThought #Marxism
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🪦#Tolstoy died today in 1910. His #politicalthought is still relevant & alive today. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism
Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.
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Today is 3rd-year🎂 of 3rd volume of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with Matthew Adams: https://lnkd.in/eD77Vauu including essays on #AbrahamHeyn, #HerbertRead, #LeoTolstoy, #DanielGuérin, #MartinBuber, #mysticism & #spiritualanarchism.
Includes 1/ essay from me on #Tolstoy’s #politicalthought, 2/ co-authored intro discussing ‘#religiousness’ of political #ideologies such as #anarchism
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Then the following week I'll be at the Cambridge seminar (chez @cambridge_cpt) talking about 'Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues', taking in Atlantis, Magnesia and Plato's critical engagement with historiography. I'm hoping to get the paper on the seminar web site even if the session itself is delayed... #history #politicalthought #plato #cambridge
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Two seminar outings for new-ish research this term - one for Plato, one for Xenophon. (And both of course subject to UCU strike dates). First up is '“The Work of the Free”: Xenophon and the Politics of Liberality' at the Institute for Historical Research History of Political Ideas seminar, on February 15th. I'll be arguing for a greater emphasis on the link between liberty and liberality in Xenophon's thought.
#history #politicalthought #xenophon #london
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After some lurking, I want to #introduce myself properly.
After training in #PoliticalTheory & #PoliticalPhilosophy, I'm now at the Institute of #PoliticalScience in #Leiden.
I've worked in the history of #PoliticalThought & #DemocraticTheory, looking at things like the secret ballot & #CriminalDisenfranchisement, as well as #Polisci stuff like #EU #DemocracyPromotion
My current work is on the #RuleOfLaw & #DemocraticBacksliding in the #EuropeanUnion
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🪦#Tolstoy died today in 1910. His #politicalthought is still relevant & alive today. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism
Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.
Hardback expensive, paperback and ebook cheaper, but also shorter chapter-length summary #free (#openaccess) & available here: https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapters/e/10.16993/bbb.c/
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I have a chapter forthcoming on (anti)democracy in the writings of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) in a volume entitled "Republicanism and Democracy: Close Friends?" (Springer, 2022 or 2023). I look forward to receiving my copy & to reading the finalised chapters of all my co-contributors. I'll post the contents when I can! https://link.springer.com/book/9783031157790 @histodons @intellectualhistory @politicaltheory #republicanism #AlgernonSidney #democracy #politicalthought #histodons
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The two-volume Cambridge History of Socialism is out! And what a collection it is! Leaders in their fields provide important correctives to the standard narratives of the history of the left. #politicalthought, #socialism #anarchism #marxism #socialmovements #labourhistory I wrote the chapter on #Proudhon. Check it out and order it for your libraries!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-socialism/394F1B6C4287374FCF45731C33BD4954
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Re- #introduction!! #histodons - please boost! I work on #earlymodern #intellectualhistory & #historyofpoliticalthought & focus on #17thcentury English #republicanism & its #politicalthought in transnational / transcultural / (cross-)confessional / material contexts & #18thcentury #Enlightenment reception. I'm a Fellow at Fondazione Einaudi, Turin, & finalising a PhD on #AlgernonSidney at the EUI, Florence. Also #networks #diplomacy #enslavement #gender. Interests #politicaltheory #philosophy.
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I guess I should toot #histodons - please boost! I work on #earlymodern #intellectualhistory & #historyofpoliticalthought & focus on #17thcentury English #republicanism & its #politicalthought in transnational / transcultural / (cross-)confessional / material contexts & #18thcentury #Enlightenment reception. I'm a Fellow at Fondazione Einaudi, Turin, & finalising a PhD on #AlgernonSidney at the EUI, Florence. Also #networks #diplomacy #enslavement #gender. Interests #politicaltheory #philosophy.
