Tag Archives: Capital

Ian Alan Paul: Fascism and the Spectacle of Death

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

From Ill Will (10/05/2025) Other languages: Türkçe, Français, Español I Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable. Everyone of course is aware that ever more people are immiserated and discarded, that ever … Continue reading →

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Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading →

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading →

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KAPT’AL

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

From lundimatin, #406, December 4, 2023. KAPT’AL is not a GodIt is a principleIt spreads like light or water or windAnd it expandsImperturbably ***

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The loss of consciousness

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

(James Rosenquist, House of Fire) The Suicide’s Defense (Of all the stupidities wherewith the law-making power has oignaled its own incapacity for dealing with the disorders of society, none appears so utterly stupid as the law which punishes an attempted suicide. … Continue reading →

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The limits of capitalism: Challenging the fetishism of labour and money

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

  Capital is nothing more than value that must be valorized, which is to say augmented. Value empirically takes the form of money and in that sense its valorization can be illustrated in Marx’s famous formula M–C–M’ [M prime], that is … Continue reading →

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John Holloway: Critical thought against the capitalist hydra

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

John Holloway remains one of the most eloquent marxists of our times.  With intellectual roots in italian autonomist marxism, his insistence on reading Capital as a dynamic system of social relations of appropriation constructed through struggles against peoples’ efforts to autonomously and … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and the reign of capital

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

The politics of eviction is the political expression of the protection of Capital …

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The necropolitics of neoliberalism: Clara Valverde Gefaell

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Whatever reality corresponded to the distinction between the working class and the sub-proletariat/lumpenproletariat under industrial capitalism has been lost in the fragmentation of the former under financial-speculative capitalism. Industry has not of course disappeared, but the conditions under which those … Continue reading →

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Down with labour: Anselm Jappe

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

… there is no longer a criticism of capitalism possible that is not accompanied by a criticism of labour.  The criticism of labour is not a “luxury” destined exclusively for rich countries.  On the contrary, it is even more pressing … Continue reading →

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