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Miguel Amorós: The need for a revolutionary orientation
A revolutionary, anti-development movement must have a decolonizing orientation, it will have to be directed towards the locality, it will have to have an anti-statist, de-industrializing and autonomous orientation. That is, it must reinforce, during this phase, a horizontal, integral … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, city, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Jaime Semprun: The end of critical theory
Revolutionary theory is now the enemy of all revolutionary ideology and knows it. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle … since the theoreticians are in reality, as I have pointed out, just as defenseless as ordinary people when … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Jaime Semprun: For a ruthless criticism of all that exists
In all the representations disseminated by catastrophism, in the way they are elaborated as well as in the conclusions they inspire, we see above all an astonishing accumulation of denials of reality. The most obvious is the one that … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, capitalism, degrowth, ecology, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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Miguel Amorós: The period of decline
Capitalism, in the late stage of globalization, has abolished all communitarian bonds, autonomous cultures, sociability, collective practices, group identities, etc., stripping individuals of any direct and profound relation with their kind and their environment, and instead setting them at odds. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, State and terror
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Jaime Semprun: The abyss repopulates itself
Among the things that people do not want to hear, and that they do not want to see, when in reality they are displayed right before their eyes, are the following: the fact that all the technological improvements that … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, Tomás Ibáñez
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The loss of consciousness
(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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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Krisis Group, Robert Kurz
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The limits of capitalism: Challenging the fetishism of labour and money
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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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, Krisis Group, Norbert Trenkle
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Terror’s Atomization of Man: Leo Löwenthal
Horror and fears contain us in a world that we do not want, and impede us from acceding to interruptive encounters that regenerate our existence. To participate in the exercise of clearing obstructions means first to not offer up our … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, capitalism, Frankfurt School, Leo Löwenthal, State and Capital, State and terror
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The subjects of capital: A critique of narcissism
Capitalism produces human subjectivities, as it produces commodities. Without this capacity, its underlying social relations would be unsustainable. Motivated by our own reflections, we share below an essay that was recently posted on the french based palim-psao website (a site … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: Capitalism as sickness and death
Society is sick of capitalism and any cure must involve the eradication of the latter. To fight disease it is not enough to dissimulate the symptoms. This has been the shortcoming of environmentalism. The problem can only be resolved by … Continue reading →