: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674240995… Brad DeLong: “So after I read this will I understand how it was that Kosygin—who could move soviet industry out of the way of the nazis and get it running again at breakneck speed—could not deliver communist economic abundance?” That’s right! It’s such a good way of putting things. My argument is the USSR is set up for mobilization but it’s not able to move on from that and eventually chooses demobilization with nothing to replace that mechanism! Could perform miracles of mass action and rapid construction. Could not figure out a way to deleverage out of history’s most epic middle income trap…”,“body_json”:{“type”:“doc”,“attrs”:{“schemaVersion”:“v1”},“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”},{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Economics”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Looking forward to this by Yakov Feigin very much: “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”},{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Feigin, Yakov”},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“. Forthcoming. “},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform”},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“. Cambridge: Harvard University Press:“}]},{“type”:“paragraph”},{“type”:“blockquote”,“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”}],“text”:“Yakov Feigin”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: ‘It’s real and maybe it’s spectacular? <“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:”bsky.app/profile/b…”,“target”:”_blank”,“rel”:“nofollow ugc noopener”,“class”:“note-link”}}],“text”:”bsky.app/profile/b…”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“>: <“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:“https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674240995","target":"_blank","rel":"nofollow ugc noopener”,“class”:“note-link”}}],“text”:“https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674240995"},{"type":"text","text":">… “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”}],“text”:“Brad DeLong”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: “So after I read this will I understand how it was that Kosygin—who could move soviet industry out of the way of the nazis and get it running again at breakneck speed—could not deliver communist economic abundance?” That’s right! It’s such a good way of putting things. My argument is the USSR is set up for mobilization but it’s not able to move on from that and eventually chooses demobilization with nothing to replace that mechanism! Could perform miracles of mass action and rapid construction. Could not figure out a way to deleverage out of history’s most epic middle income trap…”}]}]}]},“restacks”:0,“reaction_count”:0,“attachments”:[],“name”:“Brad DeLong”,“user_id”:16879,“photo_url”:“https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea5ae644-9822-4ca5-ac6b-e18c017d8fbc_1189x1208.png","user_bestseller_tier":100}}" data-component-name=“CommentPlaceholder”>

. I think if you are there you know you shouldn’t be. And you have known it for a long time.… I don’t have anything more to say about Twitter, except leave.It’s a toxic place run by a toxic person and everybody knows it now…. It’s done. You can’t salvage it He owns it now. It’s done. Just leave. You have to build something new…”,“body_json”:{“type”:“doc”,“attrs”:{“schemaVersion”:“v1”},“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”},{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Neofascism”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“A wise and useful nudge to those of us who still occasionally read and post to our Twitter accounts:“}]},{“type”:“paragraph”},{“type”:“blockquote”,“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”}],“text”:“Ezra Klein”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: ‘I think the Twitter conversation is over <“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:”www.threads.net/@timothyj…”,“target”:”_blank”,“rel”:“nofollow ugc noopener”,“class”:“note-link”}}],“text”:”www.threads.net/@timothyj…”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“>. I think if you are there you know you shouldn’t be. And you have known it for a long time.… I don’t have anything more to say about Twitter, except “},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“leave.It”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:”leave.It”}}]},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“’s a toxic place run by a toxic person and everybody knows it now…. It’s done. You can’t salvage it He owns it now. It’s done. Just leave. You have to build something new…”}]}]}]},“restacks”:0,“reaction_count”:0,“attachments”:[{“id”:“47b31a4a-5b73-4310-b20c-489047c4781e”,“type”:“link”,“linkMetadata”:{“image”:null,“title”:“leave.it”,“description”:null,“url”:”www.leave.it”,“host”:“leave.it”},“explicit”:false}],“name”:“Brad DeLong”,“user_id”:16879,“photo_url”:“https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea5ae644-9822-4ca5-ac6b-e18c017d8fbc_1189x1208.png","user_bestseller_tier":100}}" data-component-name=“CommentPlaceholder”>

: ‘Cadets at the Whampoa Military Academy… [from] a locality with access to post-1919 New Youth against those who lived in the same locality but missed this channel…. Family background did not predict party choice of these political pioneers, but that social networks mattered…”,“body_json”:{“type”:“doc”,“attrs”:{“schemaVersion”:“v1”},“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”},{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Social Networks Watch”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”:“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:” “Ideas of economists and political philosophers… right… wrong, are… powerful…. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back…. The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas…”—so wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1936. But it is not just ideas diffusing through some parasocial relationship between writer and reader. Concrete, real, on-the-ground friendship- and affinity-based social networks matter as well:“}]},{“type”:“paragraph”},{“type”:“blockquote”,“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”}],“text”:“Ying Bai, Ruixue Jia, Runnan Wang”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China <“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:”www.ruixuejia.com/uploads/4…”,“target”:”_blank”,“rel”:“nofollow ugc noopener”,“class”:“note-link”}}],“text”:”www.ruixuejia.com/uploads/4…”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:“>: ‘Cadets at the Whampoa Military Academy… [from] a locality with access to post-1919 “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“New Youth”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:” against those who lived in the same locality but missed this channel…. Family background did not predict party choice of these political pioneers, but that social networks mattered…”}]}]}]},“restacks”:0,“reaction_count”:0,“attachments”:[],“name”:“Brad DeLong”,“user_id”:16879,“photo_url”:“https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea5ae644-9822-4ca5-ac6b-e18c017d8fbc_1189x1208.png","user_bestseller_tier":100}}" data-component-name=“CommentPlaceholder”>

: ‘You’re free…, to declare that the direct targeting of civilians by Hamas on October 7 was Just because of the inherent justice of the Palestinian cause…. But if you’re going to make that claim you need to grapple with the full weight of… that claim…. [It] means embracing an account of justice that is inherently subjective and that consequently will do no good at all with respect to limiting the destructive behavior by soldiers on either side of any conflict. If that’s the world you want, fine, but be clear about it with yourself and everyone else…. Jus in bello restricts attacks to targets of military significance, a restriction that necessarily favors the more militarily powerful party…. But then LOAC also prohibits the stronger party from exerting… full force…. Jus in bello considerations are part of the conversation that Israeli military and political elites are having…. There are enormous potential costs… in adopting an “anything goes as long as you think Justice is on your side” policy…. I have found it enormously troubling that many advocates of Palestine (on X, in comments here, on campus, on Facebook, and wherever else they’ve been in my life) did not bother to wait for Israeli retaliation before exalting the justice of the massacres that Hamas undertook on October 7. In some conversations it has become clear that folks really did not have a good sense of the broader implications of what they were arguing…\n\nTaking a wide-angle perspective, we are, almost all of us, people who derive a distressingly large proportion of our ancestry from people who were disturbingly and horribly capable at the human social practices of war, genocide, and conquest rape. \n\nWe today cannot identify any among us descended entirely from those who lived between the river and sea before the waves of conquest and settler colonialism that, to count only the past 3000 years, have seen Egyptians, Philistines, Hebrews, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians, Judaeans, Romans, Ummayads, Abbasids, Crusaders, Ayyubites, Ottomans, British, and now Israelis rule. None of us come with clean ancestral, clan, or ethnic hands. Going forward, we do not want to continue the human social practices of genocide, conquest rape, and war. We want to outgrow and thus eliminate them—to replace them with discussion, persuasion, and trade. And attempts to glorify them, celebrate them, justify them, and strive to make them even more barbaric and disgusting—those are despicable. \n\nI think that the members of the idiot “left” (which is also—not infrequently inside the same brain—the idiot anti-semitic right) are not confused, but are, rather, very clear about what they are arguing. They are not arguing that Israel’s right-wing government and the IDF have no right to wage its wars against Hamas and Fatah, or that it is waging the wars it has chosen to wage in violation of the Laws of Armed Conflict. Instead, they are merely regretting that it has turned out to be more capable in its waging of them.\n\nFrom my standpoint, as someone who wants to argue that Netanyahu’s government and the IDF have (a) no right to wage their current war against Fatah, and (b) no way following the Laws of Armed Conflit to win their war against Hamas, they are not helping.“,“body_json”:{“type”:“doc”,“attrs”:{“schemaVersion”:“v1”},“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”},{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“War”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: “},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“I find Robert Farley is much more polite to the idiot “left” (which is also—not infrequently inside the same brain—the idiot anti-semitic right) than I would be:“}]},{“type”:“paragraph”},{“type”:“blockquote”,“content”:[{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“bold”}],“text”:“Robert Farley”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: Brief Comments on Rules of War <“},{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“link”,“attrs”:{“href”:”www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/10/b…”,“target”:”_blank”,“rel”:“noopener noreferrer nofollow”,“class”:“note-link”}}],“text”:”www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/10/b…”},{“type”:“text”,“text”:”: ‘You’re free…, to declare that the direct targeting of civilians by Hamas on October 7 was Just because of the inherent justice of the Palestinian cause…. 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There are enormous potential costs… in adopting an “anything goes as long as you think Justice is on your side” policy…. I have found it enormously troubling that many advocates of Palestine (on X, in comments here, on campus, on Facebook, and wherever else they’ve been in my life) did not bother to wait for Israeli retaliation before exalting the justice of the massacres that Hamas undertook on October 7. In some conversations it has become clear that folks really did not have a good sense of the broader implications of what they were arguing…”}]}]},{“type”:“paragraph”},{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“Taking a wide-angle perspective, we are, almost all of us, people who derive a distressingly large proportion of our ancestry from people who were disturbingly and horribly capable at the human social practices of war, genocide, and conquest rape. “}]},{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“We today cannot identify any among us descended entirely from those who lived between the river and sea before the waves of conquest and settler colonialism that, to count only the past 3000 years, have seen Egyptians, Philistines, Hebrews, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians, Judaeans, Romans, Ummayads, Abbasids, Crusaders, Ayyubites, Ottomans, British, and now Israelis rule. None of us come with clean ancestral, clan, or ethnic hands. Going forward, we do not want to continue the human social practices of genocide, conquest rape, and war. We want to outgrow and thus eliminate them—to replace them with discussion, persuasion, and trade. And attempts to glorify them, celebrate them, justify them, and strive to make them even more barbaric and disgusting—those are despicable. “}]},{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“I think that the members of the idiot “left” (which is also—not infrequently inside the same brain—the idiot anti-semitic right) are not confused, but are, rather, very clear about what they are arguing. They are not arguing that Israel’s right-wing government and the IDF have no right to wage its wars against Hamas and Fatah, or that it is waging the wars it has chosen to wage in violation of the Laws of Armed Conflict. Instead, they are merely regretting that it has turned out to be more capable in its waging of them.”}]},{“type”:“paragraph”,“content”:[{“type”:“text”,“marks”:[{“type”:“italic”}],“text”:“From my standpoint, as someone who wants to argue that Netanyahu’s government and the IDF have (a) no right to wage their current war against Fatah, and (b) no way following the Laws of Armed Conflit to win their war against Hamas, they are not helping.”}]}]},“restacks”:0,“reaction_count”:0,“attachments”:[{“id”:“6319291c-a3a5-4137-a14c-ed02a76caa4d”,“type”:“link”,“linkMetadata”:{“image”:“https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/98fee9fd-a0ca-43f9-9116-b665133a947a_769x1024.jpeg","title":"Brief Comments on Rules of War - Lawyers, Guns & Money”,“description”:“Given the trend in some of the comment threads here, I think it’s worth time to give some brief consideration to the problems at the nexus of law, war, and justice. 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