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Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024
From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading
Gastón Gordillo: The Fascist Disposition
From the Verso Books Blog, 18/07/2024. This essay is the third in a roundtable discussion of Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism. The others, from Jordy Rosenberg and Lisa Lowe, can be found here and here. What does the word “fascism” mean today, when fossil capitalism continues its accelerated … Continue reading
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Georges Bataille: Popular Front in the Street
The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of … 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
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
Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital
Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … Continue reading →