Category Archives: Commentary

Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (V)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) The Kronstadt … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (IV)

… anarchism is not an imaginary dream, but a reality which gives logic and a realistic sense to the revolt of the human spirit against violence. To be anarchist one does not have to speak of fictions such as “absolute, … Continue reading

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The metaphysics of capitalist radicality

From the Lundi matin collective (#308, 11/10/2021), a text-intervention by Jean-Marc Royer … La critique d’un ordre social et politique a besoin d’une perspective, d’un horizon de sens pour parvenir à problématiser les analyses; le seul point de vue qui … Continue reading

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Who are “we”, who rebel?

What follows is a translation of an essay on subjectivity and rebellion in the context of capitalism by Martín Colonel, inspired by the work of León Rozitchner and published on the site Lobo Suelto, preceded by a brief introduction.

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Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy

This post was born of an exchange of letters between John Holloway and Michael Hardt that focused on the issue of “anti-capitalist social movements” and their “organisation” and “institutionalisation”. The letters date from 2011, but their subject remains contemporary, as … Continue reading

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Covid and “the great resignation”

Refuser de parvenir, ce n’est ni refuser d’agir ni refuser de vivre : c’est refuser de vivre et d’agir pour soi et aux fins de soi. Albert Thierry Tant que notre triomphe ne sera pas en même temps celui de tous, … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on

As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading

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Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance

Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading

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The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy

Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on … Continue reading

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Jean-Luc Nancy: May 68

We close our overly brief and modest sharing of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy with an interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May … Continue reading

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