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William Banks

@wmbanks0081.bsky.social

Writer, Editor, Translator https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/H/Human-Rights-and-Oppressed-Peoples https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-Great-Debate https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/N/Nordic-Socialism

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Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 3mo ago

"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...

Rise of the Danish Left

Tribune’s Grace Blakeley speaks to Pelle Dragsted, spokesperson for Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance, about building socialist power in the 2020s.

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William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Also a request. It seems to me that it would not be all that hard to investigate the provenance of The Fatal Conceit; it's not like we are dealing with the pre-Socratics here. And if it is found to be illegitimate then take Hayek's name off of it.

William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I guess I'm the exception here in that I find this at the very least interesting. But I do wonder if Lamey's attempt to file off all of Hayek's hard edges really does him a service, insofar as it seems those edges are precisely what his admirers find appealing.

William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Up just in time for May Day, the long form version of a talk delivered at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social in October of last year. If you were there, I can happily report that Hans Nielsen was in fact a real guy. jacobin.com/2026/05/dani...

The Historic Strike That Transformed the Danish West Indies

In 1916, a mass strike led by black labor organizer David Hamilton Jackson upturned power relations in the Danish West Indies. Its success owed partly to support from Denmark’s labor movement — a true...

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William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Many thanks to Jack Graveney and Nietzsche Studien for this remarkable review. It's all too rare for an ordinary soul to find engagement of this magnitude and depth.

The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nietzsche’s ghost haunts the left, but what kind of politics does he represent? Our open-access article of the week historicizes Nietzsche’s anti-egalitarianism, situating his "aristocratic radicalism" as a politics beyond simple bourgeois liberalism. By Jack Graveney buff.ly/Rdxcvg6

William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · last yr.

Copenhagen comrades - I'll be giving a talk next week at CBS on my book The Great Debate: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society. All are welcome! "The Nietzsche Debate into the Present Age." Monday, October 6, 14:00 Copenhagen Business School Porceælenshaven 18B, 2.142

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William Banks@wmbanks0081.bsky.social · last yr.

For those who read Danish (if there's anyone else out there), Pelle Dragsted has just published his reflections on the Nordic Socialism tour in Politiken: politiken.dk/debat/debati...

Jeg vender hjem fra USA langt mere håbefuld

Tre ugers bogturné på tværs af USA har givet et skræmmende indblik i Trumps brutale USA, men også en mulighed for at møde et andet Amerika, der organiserer sig for at forsvare naboer, kolleger og det ...

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Rosa Luxemburg NYC@rosalux.nyc · last yr.

We were thrilled to welcome @pelledragsted.bsky.social, leader of the Enhedslisten party in Denmark, to our NYC office during his visit to the U.S. to present the newly released English edition of his book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. Thank you for a timely conversation!

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