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The struggle for Lützerath ignites
Eviction in progress in an occupied village in Germany against the coal industry. From lundi matin #366 (16/01/2023). This morning, Wednesday January 11, around 9 a.m., hundreds of police cars surrounded a village occupied for almost 2 years in western … Continue reading
Staughton Lynd: Thinking history, doing politics, from below
What we are about is a new set of values, the practice of solidarity. Capitalism developed within feudalism as the practice of the idea of contract. What was imagined was a society in which free and equal members of civil … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, IWW, labour, marxism, Staughton Lynd, united states
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For Mike Davis (1946-2022)
I’m a fatalistic Celt, and I have the example of my mother and older sister, who died like Russian soldiers at Stalingrad. Thanks to California’s aid-in-dying law, I have control over the final act. But I guess what I think … Continue reading
Fritz Oerter: Violence or non-violence?
Before the horrors of the First World War and the violence unleashed by the new, post-war German republic against the revolution of 1919-20, the anarchist-syndicalist Fritz Oerter made an impassioned defence of what he called “non-violent socialism”. If for some … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-militarism, Fritz Oerter, revolution
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Michèle Bernstein, the Situationists and May 68
The situationists have designated as the primary terrains of creativity in the future experiments in behavior and the construction of complete settings, moments of life freely created. Since the definition of experimentation of this type is only the other side … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, May 68, Michèle Bernstein, Situationists
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Nature is the marvelous that the surrealist seeks
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction … Continue reading
Disputing delirium*
delirium (n.): 1590s, “a disordered state, more or less temporary, of the mind, often occurring during fever or illness,” from Latin delirium “madness,” from deliriare “be crazy, rave,” literally “go off the furrow,” a plowing metaphor, from phrase de lire, from de “off, away” (see de-) + lira “furrow, earth … Continue reading
Serge Quadruppani: The chaos of empire, the paranoia of empire
From Lundi Matin (#329, 07/03/2022), a reflection on our times of crises, by Serge Quadruppani. … Notes on the Nature of the Present Crisis and How to Tackle It No sooner had the Covid-alarm started to subside that the sirens … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-militarism, russia, Serge Quadruppani, ukraine
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“Anarchism” is just a name- a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
From Freedom Press (13/01/2021), a review of two recently published essays: Anarchism and the Black Revolution, by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Pluto Press) and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, by William Anderson (AK Press). In Summer 2017, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, black anarchism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, William Anderson
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Between Rousseau and Marx
… what happens if one seriously tries to complete Marx’s project of developing, as he put it in an early essay, a “ruthless critique of everything that exists.” The likely result is a picture of the world so relentlessly bleak … Continue reading →