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The struggle against borders
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Miguel Amorós: Technology and the making of fascist totalitarianism
Without a historical subject, the unity of theory and practice, of reality and reason, is impossible. Events do not awaken consciousness, but at most instill resignation, thus tending to lose their significance as the terrain of practice, but never totally. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: Culture as the spectacular domestication of desire
In the current historical phase, and insofar as a project opposed to the dominant system is conceivable, the recovery of culture as a Ciceronian cultura animi does not imply patient dedication to learning, or a craftsman-like cultivation of skill, or a militant … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, Art and Revolution, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: The crises of capitalism
The current crisis, the threshold of a depression in every sense of the word, introduces us to a scenario of profound change and traumatic rupture, where it is impossible to reverse course. The consequences will be of momentous importance. Society, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: Capitalism as sickness and death
Society is sick of capitalism and any cure must involve the eradication of the latter. To fight disease it is not enough to dissimulate the symptoms. This has been the shortcoming of environmentalism. The problem can only be resolved by … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, capitalism, degrowth, ecology, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: The need for a revolutionary orientation
A revolutionary, anti-development movement must have a decolonizing orientation, it will have to be directed towards the locality, it will have to have an anti-statist, de-industrializing and autonomous orientation. That is, it must reinforce, during this phase, a horizontal, integral … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, city, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Jaime Semprun: The end of critical theory
Revolutionary theory is now the enemy of all revolutionary ideology and knows it. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle … since the theoreticians are in reality, as I have pointed out, just as defenseless as ordinary people when … Continue reading
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Jaime Semprun: For a ruthless criticism of all that exists
In all the representations disseminated by catastrophism, in the way they are elaborated as well as in the conclusions they inspire, we see above all an astonishing accumulation of denials of reality. The most obvious is the one that … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, degrowth, ecology, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: The period of decline
Capitalism, in the late stage of globalization, has abolished all communitarian bonds, autonomous cultures, sociability, collective practices, group identities, etc., stripping individuals of any direct and profound relation with their kind and their environment, and instead setting them at odds. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, State and terror
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Miguel Amorós: Anti-capitalism as a struggle for space
A basic principle of anti-developmentalism says that a society full of capital is an urban society, which is why a society without capital must be an agrarian society. From this perspective, a liberated urban space would therefore have to be … Continue reading →