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An anarchist reading of the Nicaraguan rebellion
From the CrimethInc collective (06/05/2018)…
Vanishing points in working class culture: Miguel Amorós
As a complement to our last post “Revolution imagined outside history”, we share an essay by the anarchist militant-writer Miguel Amorós on the possibility of revolution after the “death of the working class”.
Revolution imagined outside history
Utopia of a Tired Man Borges story Illustration by Federico Abuyé The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jorge Luis Borges, revolution, time, Walter Benjamin
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In a rebellious month of May, reflections on militant autonomy
Radical political militancy is never intellectually unarmed, for it always assumes some understanding of what it contests and of how it can or should be overcome. It also carries with it some idea of what is to follow the detested … Continue reading
Was there something queer about May 68?: The FHAR and Guy Hocquenghem
Workers of the world, masturbate! Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire slogan We should put into practice the truth that there is no revolutionary subject—there is no subject at all. There are only historical drives that ruffle this or that part of our … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (3): The italian autonomist movement
Autonomy is the body without organs of politics, anti-hierarchical, anti-dialectical, anti-representative. It is not only a political project, it is a project for existence. Individuals are never autonomous: they depend on external recognition. The autonomous body is not exclusive or … Continue reading
The Situationists and May 1968
We share an essay by Miguel Amorós critically analysing the situationist reading of and role in May 68 (from libcom.org), followed by a series of Situationist texts from the events of May 68 … A brief review of the role played … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, May 68, Miguel Amorós, revolution, Situationists
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We fight because we like it: Maintaining our morale against seemingly insurmountable odds
They are just ghosts, the ones who think people fight to win! They fight because they like it. And There Was Light, Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance From Conflictual Wisdom, through the hands of the Crimethinc … Continue reading
Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History
The essay that we share below, by Andrew Robinson, bears the virtue of clarity; like a collector, he assembles the bits of Walter Benjamin’s work on messianism and revolution. And yet because he writes as a collector of ideas, Benjamin’s … Continue reading
Reimagining revolution: Amador Fernández-Savater
With the seeming proliferation and celebration of anniversaries of revolutions, “successful” or “failed”, we lose cite of the conceptual wealth and practical weight of the concept itself. The Autonomies collective has endeavoured, however modestly, to reflect upon the history and … Continue reading →