Category Archives: Commentary

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen: Class Struggle in What Society?

From Ill Will (17/12/2024). 1. Any analysis of the re-election of Trump must depart from the George Floyd revolt, which remains the most important “political,” or rather anti-political, event in recent American history. In Minneapolis and other cities in 2020, … Continue reading

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Diego Sztulwark: One year of Milei’s government

From Lobo Suelto! (09/12/2024) For many months we had the opportunity to investigate the reasons that made Javier Milei’s government possible: the subjective effects of the pandemic and the acceleration of remote communication technologies; the transformations in the structure of … Continue reading

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Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolution

In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: The likely causes of the rise of the extreme right in the capitalist world

The most striking political phenomenon of our recent era, which some rightly call the era of authoritarian leaders, is the rise of the extreme right in the partycratic/party-dominated capitalist countries. Some prefer to call it the radical, ultra-nationalist or populist … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: Anti-developmentalism: what it is and what it wants

A 2014 restatement of the meaning of “anti-developmentalism” by the Spanish activist and author, Miguel Amorós, which he defines as the new form of the “modern class struggle”. Anti-developmentalism: What It Is and What It Wants In one respect, anti-developmentalism … Continue reading

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Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them

The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The exile and the citizen

It is good to reflect on a phenomenon that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us, but which, as often occurs in such cases, can provide us with useful indications for our life among others: exile. Legal historians continue to … Continue reading

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George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Environmentalism unto death (VII)

Abracadabrant – Encyclopédie des Nuisances (Encyclopédie des Nuisances, Nº 15, 1992) Everything that used to be part of the sphere of knowledge, its transmission and its acquisition, has disappeared into the hands of those who confiscated it. The consequences of … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)

Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading

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