Carl Beijer

Aug 22 2024 3 ep. 10 mins 5

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Readings on politics, socialism, and other things from Carl Beijer's substack.

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The limits of political "strategy"

Aug 22 2024 6 mins

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"Authoritarian" is an analytically useless concept

Dec 01 2021 13 mins

Guess the term: some scholarly works of history and political theory use it in specific and coherent ways, but almost no one else does. Instead, its primary role in our discourse is to demonize political opponents and shut down debate by vaguely invoking the memory of Nazi Germany and other violent, repressive regimes. In this use, it appeals to a concept that is just too vague and

Pandering to the right is lucrative and can make you extremely popular

Nov 24 2021 12 mins

Let’s suppose that the standard Republican take about the supposed left-wing bias of MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and so on are true. It’s not — this is a gross simplification that calls liberal orthodoxy “left” and then ignores all of the coverage that doesn’t even meet that standard — but let’s accept it for the sake of argument. Let’s im