Felix Baum
Felix Baum lives and writes in Berlin.
In his widely discussed book Spezialoperation und Frieden: Die russische Linke gegen den Krieg [Special Operation and Peace: The Russian Left against the War], Ewgeniy Kasakow documents voices from Russia in opposition to the current war—some of them supporting Ukraine’s “national defense,” some not.
By Felix Baum
The Muslims produced by this social factory are not necessarily believers, they don’t necessarily practice Islam, go to the mosque, eat halal etc.—they are rather a kind of sub-nationality, similar to the Muslims in ex-Yugoslavia or those in Lebanon at the time of the French protectorate.
July/August 2016Field Notes
From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat
In the summer of 2015, almost overnight, Angela Merkel transmuted in international public perception from a brutal whip of austerity policies, relentlessly squeezing already impoverished populations in the crisis-ridden South of the European Union, to the last defender of the humanist values Europe likes to take pride in.
Along with the return of economic crisis and social struggles around the world, the term “communism”—supposedly discredited once and for all by the experience of Russia and its satellite states in the 20th century—seems to be enjoying a certain comeback in recent years.
