Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

Italy: Autonomist feminism

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Hence we must refuse housework as women’s work, as work imposed upon us, which we never invented, which has never been paid for, in which they have forced us to cope with absurd hours, 12 and 13 a day, in … Continue reading →

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Sabotaging gender, feminism and capital

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an essay by a friend of Autonomies, a conference paper presented at the CIEG II International Congress: Gender, Feminist and Woman’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance and Action (July 24-26), at the ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais … Continue reading →

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Looking back-forward at the gilets jaunes: A taking stock

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share an unfinished debate on the yellow vests’ movement, on what is or was radical within it, and where it failed, if indeed it did so. Our caution here is dictated by the different positions in the exchange below. … Continue reading →

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Jacques Rancière: The singularity of rebellion and autonomy

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Démocratie veut dire d’abord cela : un gouvernement anarchique, fondé sur rien d’autre que sur l’absence de tout titre à gouverner. Jacques Rancière, La haine de la démocratie To share, the always timely reflections of Jacques Rancière. A question arises … Continue reading →

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Beyond violence and non-violence: Peter Gelderloos

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

… nonviolence, in its current manifestations, is based on falsified histories of struggle. It has implicit and explicit connections to white people’s manipulations of the struggles of people of color. Its methods are wrapped in authoritarian dynamics, and its results … Continue reading →

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For William Van Spronsen: In memoriam

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective …

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Reaching for a politics of pure potentiality, or trying to keep power at bay

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

One never takes power, it is power which takes us. Tomás Ibáñez We follow Peter Gelderloos’ critical evaluation of spain’s “radical” municipalism with a more theoretical reflection, by Amador Fernández-Savater, on the political cycle in the country that began with … Continue reading →

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The wayward ways of “radical” municpalism in spain

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Peter Gelderloos’ critical appraisal of spain’s “municipalities of change” is timely. (Roarmag 02/07/2019) In the general municipal elections of 2015, various, large spanish cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, etc.) fell to coalitions that promising greater social and political justice, echoing an … Continue reading →

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Politics in times of madness: Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Psychosis: A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. It is unclear whether the metaphor of being in “touch with reality” is adequate to understand human life in general, … Continue reading →

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Breaking through the domestication of the Stonewall Riots

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

‘Q’ then, will never be a coherent letter tacked as a bridge on some list of identities. The past decade shows the poverty or ruin of every attempt to do so. We’ve said already that these words are magic. We … Continue reading →

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