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Germanist; Historian; Translator; Activist; Runner; Krimi-devourer; Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Leeds University: Marxism and Women's Liberation

South Yorkshiredrbenlewis.comJoined November 2015

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Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Jun 1, 2022

The Introduction to my book, 'Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline' (forthcoming July 2022), is now available to download for free on the Berghahn Books website. Links etc here: drbenlewis.com/2022/06/01/int #twitterstorians #NewBooks #oswaldspengler #declineofthewest

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I took a bit of time to dissect the “spy balloon” story - both how it is portrayed in the US and China’s response. As you'll see, the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing. A small 🧵

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just had the thing that’s like covid but not covid

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Today, university staff go on strike They are striking for decent pay, pensions and secure employment They are striking for students They are striking for the future of higher education RT IF YOU BACK THEM #ucuRISING

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Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Jan 31

Clara #Zetkin in the new

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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures

@KingsDLLC

Jan 29

We're excited to announce our Department Research Seminar programme for this term! First up, on February 8th, we have

@Bibliotaff

from

@germanatleeds

talking about his research on Oswald Spengler's politics of decline.

Poster text reads: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, King's College London. Spring 2023 Research Seminars.
All seminars take place at 3pm in the Virginia Woolf Building, Room 1.34. It is also possible to join the seminars online: please e-mail Toby Green (toby.green[at]kcl.ac.uk) for the joining link.

08.02.2023 Ben Lewis (Leeds): 'Decisive Years? Oswald Spengler and the Crises of "Western Democracy"'

08.03.2023 Eric Marty, Paris-Diderot: title tbc

15.03.2023 Christian Fischgold (Universidade Internacional do Huambo): 'Political and Aesthetic Possibilities of Indigneous Cinema'

29.03.2023: Isa Madrazo (King's College London), 'Gender-based Violence Prevention Strategies: Where Law and Practice Meet. (A Comparative Study between Mexico and the UK) '

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Strategische Perspektiven

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Jan 28

Das unterscheiden von Maxi- und Minimalprogrammen ist auch eine Fähigkeit die weiten Teilen der deutschen Linken abhanden gekommen ist die aber eigentlich elementar ist das sie die Verbindung zwischen Sozialismus und täglichen Kämpfen klarmachen.

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Jan 28

Lenin on the minimum program, October 1917 marxists.org/archive/lenin/

marxismtranslated.com/2023/01/a-trot A #Trotskyist #PhD dissertation on the post-World War I German workers' movement ... published in #Nazi #Germany #1923 #October

Comments on Iran Protests - HOPI

Short introduction by Yassamine Mather - Moshe Machover speaks about the new 'the theocratic state' in Israel and the threat of a regional war between two r...

Telling that Harry rejects the "curtseying and subtle interpersonal racism" part of his family legacy but not the classic "travel to the Orient and kill scores of Muslims" bit

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Vor kurzem erschien bei

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die Digitalausgabe der gesammelten Werke von Rosa Luxemburg. Mit

@Bibliotaff

von marxismtranslated.com besprechen wir die turbulente Veröffentlichungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Luxemburg Werke. Heute 20 Uhr:

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Rosa Luxemburg Werke mit Ben Lewis - 99 ZU EINS - Ep. 220

Vor kurzem erschienen beim Dietz-Verlag die Digitale Ausgabe der gesammelten Werke von Rosa Luxemburg. Mit Ben Lewis von marxismtranslated.com besprechen wir...

Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Jan 5

Review of my #Spengler book in the Times Literary Supplement

@TheTLS

the-tls.co.uk/articles/oswal

Donnerstagabend! youtube.com/watch?v=_faLSm Vor kurzem erschien die Digitale Ausgabe der gesammelten Werke von Rosa Luxemburg. Mit Ben Lewis von marxismtranslated.com besprechen wir deren kontroverse und turbulente Veröffentlichungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

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Dec 6, 2022

His approach was foretold

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Our book "Socialist Women and the Great War 1914-21" with

@BloomsburyDigtl

is now available #OpenAccess as an E-Book! bloomsburycollections.com/book/socialist

BBC Persian has produced an item about the first 'minister for women' appointed by the misogynist Shah . A person of limited capabilities only appointed because she was a friend of his 3rdwife Farah Diba (he later married his 4th wife). An insult to our collective intelligence

OSWALD SPENGLER AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE by Ben Lewis bit.ly/3wtDhTw

The first draft of the paper I gave at the book launch of Volume 4 of Rosa Luxemburg's CW yesterday at the

@histmat

conference at

@SOAS

is now available on my Patreon page: patreon.com/posts/74574542 #rosaluxemburgcollectedworks #twitterstorians

“We are here today for the ones who cannot be here… We are not yet defeated” Dozens of #COP27 attendees wear white - the colour of Egyptian prison clothes - as they gather at the main conference intersection to insist there can be no climate justice without human rights #Egypt

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OSWALD SPENGLER AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE. “Lewis’s book is an outstanding contribution to understanding this, by turns, most compelling and disturbing of thinkers.” • Simon Glendinning, London School of Economics and Political Science bit.ly/3wtDhTw

patreon.com/posts/74223135 #Zetkin: The Women's Conference in #Terek 'It was as if a gate had been opened, through which the life of the evening lands in the #West and that of the morning lands in the #East converged.'

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Zetkin: The Women's Conference in Terek | Marxism Translated on Patreon

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Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Nov 3, 2022

Buried (Archival) Treasure: #Zetkin against '#Luxemburgism' (1929): patreon.com/posts/74170372 'When theoretically green comrades throw little balls of paper at Luxemburg's theoretical work, only nonsense can result.

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read pedagogy of the oppressed by paulo freire

@chirpin_tweetin

Sep 2, 2022

Epigram by 19-year-old Marx (1837) marxists.org/archive/marx/w

Text that says
"Kant and Fichte soar to heavens blue
Seeking for some distant land,
I but seek to grasp profound and true
That which--in the street I find."

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Hundreds of Foxconn employees are believed to have fled the factory in China's central province of Henan. It comes after workers raised concerns about insufficient medical care and under-reported COVID infections put them at high risk.

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Round 2 of the S Yorks Cross Country League yesterday. Proper racing,proper fun. #southyorkshirexc #cannonhall #barnsley #hrrc

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Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Oct 31, 2022

Will be speaking on Luxemburg's CW at the

@histmat

conference on sat 12 November at 11.15 am with

@rida_again

and

@REMARKSIST

. Come and say hello! #rosaluxemburg

Great Hegel news! Five new boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of Hegel lectures have been discovered. Link here: dailynous.com/2022/10/28/fou

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Ben Lewis

@Bibliotaff

Oct 28, 2022

Clara Zetkin and the #Muslim #Women's Club in #Soviet #Tbilisi #Georgia (1924) #WomenLifeFreedom patreon.com/posts/73895159

How it started: How it’s going:

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weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1416/ri What is this mysterious thing called ‘the market’ that proposes and disposes of prime minsters? Paul Demarty looks at what controls the controllers

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What is this mysterious thing called ‘the market’ that proposes and disposes of prime minsters? Paul Demarty looks at what controls the controllers

I myself watched at least 50 videos from students protesting in different universities in Tehran, Shiraz, Kurdestan, Zahedan, Mashhad, Tabriz, Kerman and many others, all despite the massive arrests/murders all over the country. This uprising continues.

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Oct 26, 2022

University students protesting all over Iran, while all sorts of oppressing forces threaten/attack/arrest them. The video: the Uni. of Science & Culture in Tehran, students chanting "death to the dictator" #MahsaAmini #IranRevoIution2022

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I now have an official page for my

@LeverhulmeTrust

Research Project

@LeedsUniAHC

. You can check it out here:

ahc.leeds.ac.uk

Of Comradeship and Sisterhood: A Political History of 'Die Gleichheit', 1891-1917

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State and Revolution is especially interesting because some of the Lenin’s claims regarding Kautsky turned out to be untrue with the publication of the laters works on republicanism in France edited by

@Marxtranslated

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. Worth checking out. History is complex!

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#Lydiard on cross-country training (basically, if you’re going to do it, do it properly!) 😬 #XC

A Sunak/Starmer election is going to be truly tragic. Hardly any major disagreements on policy, just two guys insisting that they're both 5'8".

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Third edition - just published - of my book on the Marxist scholars who taught us to see history from the bottom up and appreciate how the struggles of working people have made history.

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