Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

The passions of revolution

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Society is always pushing you to turn into something other than what you want to be. Society attempts to make you someone else, a copy, a simulacrum. It is necessary to realize that we are not here to fulfill the … Continue reading →

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Now: The Invisible Committee

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump and the limits of populism

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Political scientists, commentators, journalists tell us that we live in an age of renewed nationalist populism; that against the rational, geopolitical management of global economic agencies, conservative-reactionary political movements threaten to upset the conditions of economic and social progress with … Continue reading →

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Anarchist myths

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection by Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria on the limits of an anarchism exclusively thought in terms of anti-statism and anti-capitalism.

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Economies beyond capitalism: Anarchist reflections and practices

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

What is anti-capitalism?  What distinguishes anarchist anti-capitalism from other “competing” social-political projects?  Whatever answers are forthcoming to such questions, at the heart of any anti-capitalism is an “alternative economy”.  What this in turn amounts to has been a matter of … Continue reading →

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Governing for freedom: Werner Bonefeld on the Bourgeois State

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

Werner Bonefeld’s work on the role of the state in the creation of a liberal economic order, that is, capitalism, is of great value.  Often understood as a simple tool of the bourgeoisie, anti-capitalist politics is then conceived of as … Continue reading →

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