Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

The nameless of all metropolises, unite!

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections amidst the proliferation of rebellions … Where, then, is the positive possibility of a German emancipation? Answer: In the formulation of a class with radical chains, a class of civil society which is not a class of civil society, … Continue reading →

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The Quito commune: Ecuador’s insurrection

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Alexander Kluge writes that the “sentiments are the true inhabitants of people’s paths of life. It can be said of them what is said of the Celts … : they are everywhere, we simply do not see them. The sentiments … Continue reading →

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Frédéric Lordon: Imagining revolution and the problem of scale

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

To share, in translation, a critical essay of “micro” revolutionary politics, by Frédéric Lordon … Lordon may be accused of simply reenacting the old marxist-social democratic criticism of anarchism: that the latter’s anti-statism ignores the inevitable role of state power, … Continue reading →

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Another end of the world is possible!

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The only way to address the environmental crisis and global climate change is to abolish capitalism! From the CrimethInc Collective, from brazil (24/09/2019)… What Is Burning the Amazon? A Plea from Brazilian Anarchists As the fires in the Amazon rainforest … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Resonances

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We no longer wish to live as before. From lundi matin#207, 09/09/2019 … Une juste colère – Interrompre la destruction du monde/A just anger – Interrupting the destruction of the world, by the historian and anthropologist Jérôme Baschet, will appear … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Insurrection at the end times of capital

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Walter Benjamin, in an early and originally unpublished essay, described capitalism as a religion, a purely cultic religion without dogma or theology; a religion in which things and deeds have meaning only in relation to the cult. The ends are … Continue reading →

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In solidarity with Vincenzo Vecchi and all imprisoned anarchists

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

News of the arrest of Vincenzo Vecchi in france last week reminds all of us yet again of the determination of State authorities to silence and criminalise dissidence, by whatever means available. Vecchi was finally condemned by italian courts in … Continue reading →

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André Gorz: An apology for a radical ecology

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Amidst the multiplication of news of our ecological catastrophe, of proliferating extinction rebellions and proposed green new deals, and inspired by a recent posting by the lundi matin collective, we return to a seminal essay by André Gorz entitled “Their … Continue reading →

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Looting Back: An Account of the Ferguson Uprising

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/08/2019) …

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The commodity and the making of “woman”

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism … If we have little interest in the scholasticism and the baroque arcana of contemporary marxist theoretical debates, the wealth of marxist theory can be neither dismissed nor ignored. And debates around marxist inspired feminism are … Continue reading →

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