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Against labour, against capital: Norbert Trenkle and the violence of fictitious capital
We share a second essay by Norbert Trinkle that brings together the Krisis Group’s critique of value with an interpretation of the current crisis of capitalism. (The essay was published in english here, along with the german text).
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Tagged capitalism, Crisis, Krisis Group, labour, Norbert Trenkle
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Against labour, against capital: The terror of labour by Norbert Trenkle
As a compliment to Robert Kurz’s reflections on capitalism and labour, we share the work of another member of the Krisis Group, this time Norbert Trenkle and an essay entitled the Terror of labour. (The english language translation that we publish … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Marx 2000 by Robert Kurz
… the capitalist order of society is not determined by the subjects of circulation, but by the irrational end-in-itself of production. An emancipatory “abolition of money” is only possible in the context of an abolition of the labor-substance, its value-form, … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: An interview with Robert Kurz
A second post in our series, Against labour, against capital … In this 2006 interview, Robert Kurz offers a succinct definition the “radical critique of value”, and discusses the nature of the commodity and markets, the “ontologization of value”, abstract … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Guy Debord, Krisis Group, labour, Robert Kurz
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Against labour, against capital: The Krisis Group
The eulogists of work. Behind the glorification of ‘work’ and the tireless talk of the ‘blessings of work’ I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Krisis Group, labour, Manifesto Against Labour, revolution
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A revolution remembered: Hungary 1956
Notre heritage n’est précédé d’aucun testament. René Char It is a strange and sad story that remains to be told and remembered. What the councils challenged was the party system as such, in all its forms, and this conflict was … Continue reading
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The illusions/delusions of electoral politics: From Crimethinc
From the CrimethInc collective, a reflection on the pitfalls of electoral politics for radical challenges to Capital and the State, by ret marut … Could there be any better illustration of the shortcomings of representative democracy than this year’s Presidential … Continue reading
Reading Dario Fo’s Legacy: By Jacopo Fo
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. Dario Fo From the struggles in italy website, the speech by Jacopo Fo at his father’s, Dario Fo’s, funeral … Dario … Continue reading
Sebastien Faure: “Anarchy”
From Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog … Some time ago I posted Sébastien Faure’s definition of “anarchist” from the Encyclopédie Anarchiste. Shawn Wilbur has now translated an excerpt from Faure’s definition of “anarchy”from the Encyclopédie. Faure was a French anarchist who … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: World economic crisis, social movements and socialism: 12 theses by Robert Kurz
“Don’t worry, the capitalist system will be reborn from your ashes” – El Roto A new concept of socialism can only be articulated to the extent that there is a break with the internalization of capitalist ways of life by … Continue reading →