What Adam Tooze thinks about politics
Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Wages of Destruction, Crashed and Shutdown. Writes the Chartbook newsletter.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Tooze has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsRather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
↗Chartbook 474: The state is the problem - the AfD’s anti-systemic diagnosis of contemporary Germany. adamtooze.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsTo my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the "outsider" credentials of the AfD.
↗Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.adamtooze.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
↗Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.adamtooze.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece