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Brexit means… what? Hapless ideology and practical consequences
Aufheben № 24 November 2016 . . The EU migrants’ ordeal and the limits of direct action . We begin this article with a case dealt with by Brighton Solfed (SF) and CASE Central social center —...
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Reap the whirlwind
. But muh rainbow coalition of marginalized identities will smash the kyriarchy as we sprinkle magic diversity pixie dust over everyone and create a shiny liberal Starbucks utopia....
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Fear trumps love
One sign, waved by someone somehow #StillWithHer, reads: “Not my president.” Another echoes the popular chant: “We reject the president elect.” Finally, and most ubiquitously: “Love...
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Self-loathing on the campaign trail, 2016
My last post dealt with fear. This post, by contrast, will deal with loathing. Self-loathing, to be exact. As soon as it became clear Trump was going to win the election last Tuesday night, a...
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Early Soviet children’s books, 1924-1932
. The Young Polytechnician: Housing (1931) Out with bourgeois crocodiles! How the Soviets rewrote children’s books Stuart Jeffries The Guardian May 4, 2016 . . In 1925, Galina and Olga Chichagova...
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Crisis and Critique
Something for everyone in this. communists in situ CRISIS AND CRITIQUE: Critique Of Political Economy Volume 3, issue 3, 16-11-2016 Edited by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza It is 2016, and we are still...
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Jan Tschichold and the new typography
. Like many of his contemporaries, Jan Tschichold adhered to a kind of “apolitical socialism” during the 1920s. Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and numerous others shared...
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Fidel Castro on the Frankfurt School
One of the last Cold Warriors left standing finally bit the dust last night. If we’re lucky, Henry Kissinger will also be dead by year’s end. Good fucking riddance. Comrade Emanuel Santos put...
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Wilhelm Reich’s synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis
Back in June, in a post featuring critiques Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács wrote on Freudian psychoanalysis, I announced that I’d shortly be posting a number of works by the Marxian...
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Bookchin and Marx
“The future instead of the past”? Reid Kane Kotlas Platypus Review 90 October 22, 2016 . Originally presented as a talk at the 2016 Annual Gathering of the Institute for Social Ecology,...
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Taking “leave” of their senses
What does the Brexit vote mean? Mouvement Communiste Kolektivně proti kapitálu October/November 2016 . . The idea of holding a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU began as a promise by...
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Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe hardly needs any introduction to readers of this blog, or indeed to anyone more than casually familiar with the history of twentieth century architecture....
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Free speech on and off campus: In defense of George Ciccariello-Maher
. Yesterday I learned that George Ciccariello-Maher, an associate professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, has recently come under fire for a stupid joke he sent out on Twitter...
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L’affaire Ciccariello-Maher: “White genocide” and beyond
. George Ciccariello-Maher’s “off-color” joke about genocide over the holidays has elicited a range of reactions on social media. In the week or so that’s elapsed since he sent out those...
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Paul Mattick, Marxist revolutionary (1904-1981)
I’m not a councilist. Of the two major streams of left-wing communism within the Third International, the German-Dutch current formed around spontaneous workers’ councils and the...
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Journey back into the vampires’ castle: Mark Fisher remembered, 1968-2017
. I never met Mark Fisher, but we corresponded often via e-mail. And he was always very encouraging. Right after I wrote a scathing review of “conference communism” in early 2014, “The...
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Protest politics in the age of Trump
So who else is mad as hell about the symbolic transfer of power between rival factions of the bourgeoisie? Remember all the demonstrations that spontaneously broke out eight years ago, when...
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Once again on the term “identitarian”
Angela Mitropoulos, an Australian academic and author of Contract and Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia, recently posted a note on her blog about the origins of the term...
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“Everyone’s a victim”: Relativizing Auschwitz with Adorno
. Auschwitz was liberated 72 years ago today. In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am reposting a recent article by Ingo Elbe on a new book by Marc Nicholas Sommer....
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Insurgent Notes conference at CUNY Grad Center, Sunday (2.5.17)
. Reposting here the original open call issued by Insurgent Notes back in January, along with the updated agenda schedule they just released. I’m planning to attend, along with a bunch of...
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