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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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Killing the beast in its lair: Silvia Federici and the social reproduction of capitalism
Social reproduction is a relatively recent term. In the 1970s, we spoke of it in terms of domestic work, referring to all the activities that reproduce our daily life and at the same time, in a capitalist society, also reproduce … Continue reading
Collecting the egyptian revolution
Seven years after the beginning of the “egyptian revolution” of January 25, 2011, and against the silence, the Mosireen Collective inaugurates an online video archive of events …
With and beyond anti-fascism (4): “ANTIFA”, a documentary film
We continue with our series of posts documenting and critically reflecting on anti-fascism … The latest Global Uprisings documentary explores the broader meaning of the anti-fascist movement, taking the viewer to the scenes of street battles from Washington to Berkeley … Continue reading
For Ursula K. Le Guin
A Few Words to a Young Writer: Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking … Continue reading
On friendship and happiness: Reflections on joyful militancy
Yue Minjun But in much of Ionia and elsewhere in the Persian Empire the rule is that love-affairs are wrong. In Persia, it is because of their tyrannical government that they condemn them, as well as intellectual and athletic activities. … Continue reading
Self-Destruction as Insurrection: An essay by Irmgard Emmelhainz
… from Devil’s Freedom by Everardo González What remains of “revolution” when an absolute capitalism generates profits from the death of superfluous populations? What “liberal subject” bearer of rights, not to speak of “revolutionary subject”, persists when the redundant have … Continue reading
With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life
Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading
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Revolution in the end time (2): A reflection
Our response to the climate crisis has been to rearrange deckchairs on the Titanic — but whatever we do, it isn’t working. It’s time to try something new. From roarmag, an essay by Kevin Buckland; a further reflection on … Continue reading
Crossing the borders of struggles: In solidarity, in memory, with the Mapuche and Santiago Maldonado
The enslavement to capitalism occurs in multiple spaces and times. If commodity production and the submission to money homogenises and deterritorialises, the reproduction of capitalist social relations distributes human populations across differential, hierarchical and conflicting geographies and histories.