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Tag Archives: anti-capitalism
Against Liberal Fascism
War conducted by states against “communitarianism.” Implosion of popular communities. Negligence toward the weaving of our interdependences. And then, as if this social disaster wasn’t deep enough, emancipators who have nothing better to propose than the prisons of identity politics. … Continue reading
The Strategy of Separation
The main takeaway is this: if we find at the core of the French Revolution — “mother to all of us,” as Kropotkin says — the main currents of the later revolutionary movement, first and foremost the libertarian and the … Continue reading
The disaster has a name: Capitalism
From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the popular collective responses to the catastrophe, more often than not in … Continue reading
Freedom and Joy with Uma Kiwe
From Ill Will (19/05/2024) … What we are going to do is to plant ourselves in a new time. This is the stage that the Nasa people have entered with the liberation of Mother Earth. It is the Earth that … Continue reading
Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions
From the CrimethInc. collective (08/05/2024) … In cooperation with Freedom, we present a short text from Peter Gelderloos exploring why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are currently employing to halt industrially-produced climate change are failing—and what we could be doing … Continue reading
The battle for Britain: the 1984-85 coal miners’ strike
In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an ’intellectual’ and a superior person generally. For it isbrought home to you, at least while you … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, British coal miners strike, E.P. Thompson, George Orwell, Strike, united kingdom
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Simone Weil: The waning of the working class, technique and the rise of fascism
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labour which characterizes the society we are aiming at. … Continue reading
Bertolt Brecht: Writing the Truth – Five Difficulties (1935)
Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. … Continue reading →