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Not yet human: Universality, common inhumanity, and Marx
. The earth will rise on new foundations. We have been nothing; we will be everything. ’Tis the final conflict, let each stand in their place. The International will be the human race. —...
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Moscow constructivism
. Images taken from the Russian language website Medusa, along with a translation of the short blurb that accompanied it. Reportedly several hundred Musvovites gathered to protest the razing of the...
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On progress: Critical theory and the “decolonial” imperative
. I repost below Bruce Robbins’ excellent review of Amy Allen’s very poor book, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016), originally appeared on the Los...
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Identity crisis: Against capital and nation
. Below you can read a couple English-language translations of texts by the German Gruppen gegen Kapital und Nation. They are relevant to a number of issues which I plan to cover in a forthcoming post....
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Non-identity and negation
“Identitarianism” and the affirmation of difference . Renovators and renegades . In a classic 1952 essay on “The Historical Invariance of Marxism,” Amadeo Bordiga identified three contemporary forms of...
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Politics of affirmation or politics of negation?
Joseph Kay Libcom.org Nov. 2008 . . Below you can read Joseph Kay’s excellent 2008 post on affirmation, negation, and identity. Many of the themes I touched on in my last post are covered here as well,...
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We are not “anti”
Bernard Lyon Revue Internationale (May 25, 2005) . . Amadeo Bordiga once famously quipped that the worst product of fascism, politically speaking, was anti-fascism. The same could also probably be said...
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The Marxism of Wilhelm Reich
Or, the social function of sexual repression Bertell Ollman Social and Sexual Revolution (1979) . I . “Just as Marxism was sociologically the expression of man’s becoming conscious of the laws of...
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Early Marxist criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis: Karl Korsch and Georg...
. Much has been written over the years about the similarity between and compatibility of Marxian sociology and Freudian psychology. Here is not the place to evaluate those claims. Suffice it to say,...
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Capitalism and gay identity
The Birth and Short Lived Life of Gay Marxism: Capitalism And Gay Identity in Context* by Rosemary Hennessy The Stonewall uprising in New York City in June 1969 was the most immediate catalyst for the...
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Capitalism and gay identity
.. . John D’Emilio’s classic essay, with a brief contextual introduction by Rosemary Hennessy. Reblogged from Communists in Situ. . . The birth and short-lived life of gay Marxism: “Capitalism and gay...
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Hatred of homosexuality
Gegen Kapital und Nation Streifzüge (April 15 2014) . . Theses toward a critique of bourgeois sexuality . A) Nature, society, individual . 1 Homo-, hetero-, and bisexuality are not biologically...
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Brexit stage Left? Or maybe better not at all
. The amount of leftist posturing around the issue of Brexit exists in inverse proportion to the actual potential of the situation, which as everyone knows is zilch. It reflects the flailing impotence...
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On the ideology of “anti-Islamophobia”
Alexandra Pinot-Noir and Flora Grim, Non Fides (May 26, 2016) . Originally posted by Comin Situ Translated from the French . . The intention of this text is to reply to those among the...
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Notes on ideology and Islamophobia
. Several salient points are made in Alexandra Pinot-Noir and Flora Grim’s jointly-written article, which I reposted, “On the Ideology of ‘Anti-Islamophobia’.” For example, the authors are onto...
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Anti-Bolshevik propaganda posters: Metal as fvkk
. Recently, I was contacted by a fellow named Harry K. Wärts via The Charnel-House’s Facebook page. Admittedly, I don’t check the messages I receive there too often. Nevertheless, this caught me a bit...
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Against political determinism
. “Neoliberalism” is a tricky and often misleading term. There have been myriad attempts to theorize it from a Marxist perspective, more or less adequate, usually less. But at the level of campaign...
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Anatomy of a controversy
Race, religion, and ideology in contemporary debates on the French communist Left . . How to moralize with a sledgehammer . On the night of April 21, 2016, the windows of an anarchist library and...
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Decolonial communization?
Race, religion, and class: Problems and pitfalls of a theoretical synthesis . . Overview of the problem . For whatever reason, at least from the outside, there seems some sort of slow convergence...
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Decolonial communization?
Race, religion, and class: Problems and pitfalls of a theoretical synthesis . . Overview of the problem . For whatever reason, at least from the outside, there seems some sort of slow convergence...
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