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Category Archives: Commentary
Theses of the Socialist Patients’ Collective
The desire to live is something in dispute: there is no desire; we are increasingly obedient, more submissive. Our vital energies are being expropriated and captured through different devices, which corner us in impotence, confusion, indifference, stupidity. But there are … Continue reading
Amador Fernández-Savater: Having superpowers – Reading as an experience of emancipation
For N al-K … The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Virginia Woolf, in times of war … The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf: Anarchy against war
The daughters of educated men who were called, to their resentment, ‘feminists’ were in fact the advance guard of your own movement. They were fighting the same enemy that you are fighting and for the same reasons. They were fighting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Giorgio Agamben, Virginia Woolf
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The solutions are already here with Peter Gelderloos: A podcast
Follow the link below to an excellent discussion around Peter Gelderloos’ essay, The Solutions are Already Here. Peter Gelderloos joins us again to discuss his recent book “The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below”. The conversation … Continue reading
Russia: The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization
From the CrimethInc. collective (22/08/2022) … When the Russian military invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022, anarchists and other anti-war demonstrators defied draconian anti-protest measures to take the streets to express opposition. Over the months since those protests were crushed, resistance to … Continue reading
Reading the past through the present: Marx and Engels on the Crimean War
Let us rather observe this lad of ten, clad in an ancient cap, his father’s probably, shoes worn on bare feet, and nankeen breeches, held up by a single suspender, who had climbed over the wall at the very beginning … Continue reading
Enzo Traverso: Revolutions are still breathing life into history
Historian Enzo Traverso on his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History. The interview originally appeared in the Alias section of il manifesto, 9 July 2022 and was published in the Verso books blog, 01/08/2022, translated by David Broder. “Revolution — without icons and without capital letters … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: From futurist fascism to geriatric fascism
There are weeks to go until the 100th anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirt March on Rome. With less than 30 days before the elections that could put a woman in power for the first time, and a fascist, the philosopher … Continue reading →