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When voting to change the guard, imaging anarchy
From The floodgates of anarchy, by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer … Is a free society possible? (Libcom.org) Mutual aid is the over-riding principle in human existence. It is greater than that of class struggle, which is the result of … Continue reading
Let empire collapse
From Roarmag (02/11/2020) … Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote. Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution Mohamed Abdou I am part of a We that … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, post-colonialism
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Giorgio Agamben: Becoming faceless
Returning to our loss of face in pandemic times … A country without a face Giorgio Agamben, Quodlibet The face and the mask … although she [nature] made all other animate creatures face the earth for grazing,she made the human … Continue reading
Reading events with Giorgio Agamben
“ … All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe. We’re not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good. … Continue reading
Beyond the liberation of desire
With the Earth still spinning around, with the Sun still shining bright,Oh Lord, grant everyone’s wishes to make both ends meet:To the wise man give a wisdom, to the coward give a horse,To the happy man give some money … … Continue reading
Chile: Looking Back on a Year of Uprising
From the CrimethInc. Collective (15/10/2020), a reflection on the chilean uprising … Chile: Looking Back on a Year of Uprising – What Makes Revolt Spread—and What Hinders It? The Fight for Dignity and the Campaign for a New Constitution October … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, chile, insurrection, State and Capital, State terror
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The revolutionary potential of abolitionist demands
From Roarmag (15/10/2020) magazine … Sovereignty’s gradual slide toward the darkest areas of police law, however, has at least one positive aspect that is worthy of mention here. What the heads of state, who rushed to criminalize the enemy with … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-racism, Security State, State and terror, State terror, united states
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An apology for permanent insurrection
Anarchists, as Amedeo Bertolo so clearly expressed, act and think within the permanent tension between anarchy as ideal and as lived. The mistake is to believe that this tension can be surpassed, set aside, in a finally realised anarchy, or … Continue reading
Agustín García Calvo: For those who asked about utopias
With a little inspiration from lundi matin … If everyone were able to look closely within themselves, they would realise that everyone from below is mad, that we are all mad, and that we live, from below, in a very … Continue reading
“Destruam et ædificabo”: The anarchist proposal
From acracia.org (24/10/2020) … The Latin expression is a biblical quotation that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon put on the cover of his fundamental work, The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty (1846), and it reflects very well the dual … Continue reading →