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Gáspar Miklós Tamás: Post-fascism
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the … Continue reading
Fascism in our times
Men insofar as they are more than animal reaction and fulfillment of functions are entirely superfluous to totalitarian regimes. Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous. Total power can … Continue reading
Gustav Landauer on the german revolution of 1918-19
Gustav Landauer would fully engage with the events of the German Revolution, both as writer and militant. And if criticised certain decisions or actions, he did not hesitate to commit himself to revolution whose anarchist dimension is often ignored. We … Continue reading
Remembrance: The German Revolution of November 9th, 1918
The end of the first world war was a moment of crisis in global capitalism; a crisis that was grasped by many as a possibility for revolution. If the times would be above all marked by the russian revolution, its resonances … Continue reading
Remembrance: The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I
A Short Poem for Armistice Day Gather or take fierce degree trim the lamp set out for sea here we are at the workmen’s entrance clock in and shed your eminence. Notwithstanding, work it diverse ways work it diverse days, … Continue reading
Remembrance: Lest We Forget – Workers Stopped Capitalism’s First World War
Repression of War Experience Now light the candles; one; two; there’s a moth; What silly beggars they are to blunder in And scorch their wings with glory, liquid flame— No, no, not that,—it’s bad to think of war, When thoughts … Continue reading
Remembrance: Of war and against war
The Drum I hate that drum’s discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glitt’ring arms; And … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: Between capitalism and anti-capitalism – the struggle for territory (2)
For us, nature is not a pre-social fact, but a product of culture and history, a space defined by an eminently rural sense of time, which is why we shall employ the word “territory” when referring to it. Similarly, by … Continue reading
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Miguel Amorós: Between capitalism and anti-capitalism – the struggle for territory (1)
It is revolutionary to know how to make a loaf of bread, but it is also revolutionary to know how to make a barricade. Its segregation as well as its resistance do not have the goal of its isolated survival … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, ecology, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: Anti-developmentalism as class struggle
The world of the commodity is no longer susceptible to self-management. It is impossible to humanize it: it must first be dismantled. … Self-defense against the terrorism of the commodity and the State assumes the form of both an … Continue reading →