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Tag Archives: autonomy
On non-state power: Raúl Zibechi
Collective labor underpins the commons, and is the true material base that produces and reproduces living communities, based on relations of reciprocity and mutual help rather than the hierarchical and individualized relations at the core of state institutions. The community … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomy, Raúl Zibechi, revolution, south america
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The russian revolution of 1917: Cornelius Castoriadis
The autonomous activity of the masses belongs by definition to what is repressed in history. Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis’ saw in the Bolshevik seizure of power the beginning of the end of the russian revolution; an end marked by the administrative dispossession … Continue reading
Autonomy as societies in movement: Raúl Zibechi
Autonomy and difference go hand in hand, because autonomy implies that people have the right to govern themselves completely, “to determine their own form of government, their own sociocultural practices, and their own economic organization” (Díaz Polanco and Sánchez 2002, 45). This point … Continue reading
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Creating autonomies in greece: Voices from the capitalist wilderness
Theodoros Karyotis’ essay “The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity”, focusing on greek urban-political struggles in the period of 2008 and after, allows us to conceive of what a radical politics might look like beyond the indigenous-capitalist … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, Communism, greece, occupy the city, revolution, Stavros Stavrides, Theodoros Karyotis
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Traditions of autonomy: Kabylia
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro speaks of the indigenous as those who are still “tied” to a land for their well-being, as peoples whose “economy” is still significantly “local”; or indeed, who have no “economy”, as a separate and and dominate … Continue reading
The catalan referendum: From Crimethinc
Reflections on the catalan referendum, from the Crimethinc. collective …
The city belongs to those who occupy it: Okupying Lisbon
Reflections after an assembly of a new okupation in Lisbon … Any new occupation is invariably accompanied by uncertainty, an uncertainty only intensified by a lack of clarity over means and goals, organisation and methods of functioning, and the physical … Continue reading
Notes on the Bure ZAD and the politics of eternity/death
Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien… O la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu’une … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, ecology, france, Gunther Anders, Hannah Arendt, revolution, ZAD
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Autonomous well-being: Self-organising health care in Exarcheia
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates Revolution begins in the everyday, in the constitution-resistance of autonomous, self-managed social relations in the many spheres of life that make … Continue reading
The war against autonomy: The State attacks the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
This April 9th, the expulsion of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes began. If the proposed airport for the region was struck down, the french government has repeatedly announced that it will not accept the “illegal” occupation of the land by squatters. … Continue reading →