the death of the Marxist tradition after 1990 hasn't just been a political disaster, but also such a massive loss knowledge. or rather: most of it is still there, it's just print forms that are buried and inaccessible somewhere. there's these large digitalization (+making accessible) projects in scientific fields, like the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which has digitalized over 64 million pages of old journals and made all their content accessible through AI assisted data enrichment. we need to build something like that for literature on Marxism and related fields (pol econ, Keynesianism and heterodox economics, World System Analysis, imperialism studies etc). the Marxists.org archive is already a great project, but could use a make over and be larger

i just talked about accessibility here but it's not just that: maybe even more important is the loss of the intellectual tradition. the 20th century has produced a number of seminal works that would've been required reading back then that only people directly in academics know about anymore. but you need them, there's neither a point nor time to reinventing all these concepts, to do the work all over again. the school of socialism is closed for now, and we can't re-open it without rediscovering eg Baran, Schnaiberg, Mandel, Sweezy and lots of others

militarism aside: this is also quite literally the single worst economic policy decision germany could possibly take. cutting all spending while going in debt for spending that has zero multiplier during a recession is like getting rid of a gas leak by putting fire to it

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed