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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Emma Goldman: The New Year
The business Christians have just celebrated Christmas. To increase their profits and heighten the glory of God, they have exploited the Savior to good purpose. Splendid success of redemption! Christ gave his blood to enable the churches and department stores … Continue reading
The Christmas spectacle
From Freedom News (07/12/2025) Radical Reprint: The Christmas spectacle A curmudgeonly anarchist Christmas rejoinder is in some ways truer now than it was forty-five years ago punkacademic The 8 December 1980 edition of Freedom led with a bold call to action—BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS! … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: To believe and not to believe
In 1973, writing Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich predicted that the catastrophe of the industrial system would become a crisis that would usher in a new era. “The total collapse of the industrial monopoly on production will be the result … Continue reading
Lucy E. Parsons: A Christmas Story
“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit’s robe, “but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?” … Continue reading
Josep Rafanell i Orra: Anarchism, once again
From lundimatin #501, 15/12/2025 Everyone agrees that the current political landscape in France is frankly depressing. On the one hand, there is an obvious fascistisation of stupidity, and on the other, a kitsch revival of Leninist leftism. It’s easy to … Continue reading
Anarchism: Last ecological hope against the violence of the State
Against a State that will never resolve the climate crisis, and its violence that force does not know how to overthrow, what remains for ecologists? Historical and present day anarchism, rich in ideas for another future.
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Tagged Alessandro Pignocchi, anarchism, anti-statism, ecology, Erik Olin Wright, france, John Holloway, Juliette Duquesne
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Giorgio Agamben: To live or to survive
Those who govern us today are trying to organise the survival of humanity, that is, they are trying to transform the living into survivors. But what survives is no longer alive; only those who do not survive their own way … Continue reading
Marcello Tarí: Revisiting the Concept of Revolution
“A Conversation with Marcello Tarí” (Translated and Edited by Nikola García), published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31/03/2022. This interview is part of the series Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power In this interview conducted by POLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Nikola Garcia, … Continue reading
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Tagged Giorgio Agamben, Marcello Tarí, Mario Tronti, revolution
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Ivan Illich: Rebirth of Epimethean Man
As yet another COP gathering closes, with no end in sight to increasing carbon emissions, to the glee of the fossil fuel industries; as the promise of a “green” energy transition unmasks its own inexhaustible demands on an expanding, violent … Continue reading
Simone Weil: Reflections on War
The perspectives of a revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. Simone Weil The masks have fallen away, or they … Continue reading →