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Yearly Archives: 2017
Scenes from the class struggle in france: From Crimethinc
Left to their own devices, the police found themselves for the first time in a troublesome quandary. Suddenly stripped of the compass of the law, unable to decide which of the emergent governments should be considered lawful, and realizing the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, insurrection, Security State
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The russian revolution of 1917: Bruno Jasienski
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — “true conformity” is possible only in the cemetery. Joseph Stalin, “Our purposes” Pravda #1, (22 January 1912) For many of those who threw themselves into the russian revolution, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, bruno jasienski, futurism, russian revolution
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The question of the independence of catalonia: From Crimethinc
We return to the referendum on the independence of catalonia, to the struggle between the spanish state and the state of an aspiring new republic, to where anarchists may find their ground …
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Tagged anarchism, catalonia, democracy, Miquel Amorós, Tomás Ibáñez
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A wall of exclusion and domination
The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa, LGBTQI, mexico, migration, Security State, State and terror, united states
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For Daniel Guérin
My move in the direction of socialism wasn’t objective, or of an intellectual order,” Guérin writes of his political transformation in Vietnam. “It was more subjective, physical, coming from feeling and the heart. It wasn’t in books, it was in … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Daniel Guérin, LGBTQI
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The russian revolution of 1917: Daniel Guérin
The Russian Revolution was, in fact, a great mass movement, a wave rising from the people which passed over and submerged ideological formations. It belonged to no one, unless to the people. In so far as it was an authentic … Continue reading
The catalan referendum: From Crimethinc
Reflections on the catalan referendum, from the Crimethinc. collective …
The catalan referendum: anarchy and/or self-determination?
Sunday, October 1st, was the day in which the residents of catalonia were asked to vote on the region’s independence. The referendum, having earlier been declared unconstitutional by the spanish courts, became then the object of an active judicially driven … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, catalonia, nationalism, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Giorgio Agamben: On the metropolis
Okupation, between the city and the metropolis; sharing a short reflection (generation online) by Giorgio Agamben on the politics of the metropolis against the city …
What is to be done? The question of a proletarian revolution
(photograph by Sebastião Salgado) proletarian 1650s (n.) “member of the lowest class;” 1660s (adj.) “of the lowest class of people;”; with – iant + Latin proletarius “citizen of the lowest class” (as an adjective, “relating to offspring), in Ancient Rome, propertyless people, … Continue reading →