{"id":1491,"date":"2026-03-27T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:15:43","slug":"why-everything-feels-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Why everything feels broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUXiMi4bY68\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUXiMi4bY68<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley: &#8220;Why everything feels broken&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Minute 7.50: (Grace: &#8220;One of my favourite Greek Marxist theorists, other than you (Yanis Varoufakis) is Nikos Poulantzas.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Question to AI: Why did Nikos Poulantzas commit suicide? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI response:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicos Poulantzas, a prominent Marxist theorist, died by suicide on October 3, 1979, at age 43 by jumping from a window in Paris. While the exact reasons are private, reports suggest it was driven by personal despair, feelings of intellectual failure regarding his work, and the pressures of political disillusionment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Feelings of Failure<\/strong>: Witness accounts suggest that shortly before his death, Poulantzas expressed that his theoretical work was worthless and that he had failed in his efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Political Disillusionment<\/strong>: He was reportedly disappointed by the, at the time, perceived failure of Euro-Communism and the lack of understanding or support within activist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Personal and Professional Stress: <\/strong>Accounts note he was under significant pressure and felt personal despair, possibly compounded by not being granted a professorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context of Death:<\/strong> He committed suicide by jumping from the apartment of a friend in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His death is often cited as a profound loss to Marxist theory and a, as described in a <a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/radical-history-review\/article-pdf\/1979\/21\/248\/463340\/ddrhr_1979_21_248.pdf\">Duke University Press article<\/a>, &#8220;symbolic death of Marxism&#8221; to some, although the precise, intimate reasons remain part of an &#8220;inexplicable tragedy&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUXiMi4bY68 Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley: &#8220;Why everything feels broken&#8221; Minute 7.50: (Grace: &#8220;One of my favourite Greek Marxist theorists, other than you (Yanis Varoufakis) is Nikos Poulantzas.&#8221; Question to AI: Why did Nikos Poulantzas commit suicide? AI response: Nicos Poulantzas, a prominent Marxist theorist, died by suicide on October 3, 1979, at age 43 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}