Archive for the ‘critique and theory’ Category
Occupy the Crisis
A new blog you should check out: Occupy the Crisis “….on the U.S. “Occupy” movement as counter-hegemonic force in the current political conjuncture” Here’s some posts; go read em: On Occupy, reproduction and the commons In an earlier post, I pointed to David Harvey’s text on reclaiming the city as a site of the commons. Below, Silvia [...]
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Tags: George Caffentzis, Occupy Wall Street, Silvia Federici
A blog recommendation, via communism: Michael Heinrich, De Brosses, fetishism, etc.
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Tags: De Brosses, fetishism, Karl Marx, marxism, Michael Heinrich
Anti-national/anti-German
Interesting text on anti-Germanism published at Contested Terrain. Also read the interesting discussion at the Libcom forum, despite degenerating into predictable flame wars at various points. Some links to follow from there, including “Blaming the Banks is not our Business“. And an important new text on anti-nationalism, from AntiFa AK Cologne, published at Shift. While [...]
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Kritique and theory
From Entdinglichung: Espace Contre Ciment weist auf Downloadmöglichkeiten zu Büchern von George Grosz sowie vom Max Tobler und Paul Mattick hin: Auf LibCom: – Robert Kurz: Anti-economics and anti-politics: on the reformulation of social emancipation after the end of “marxism” (1997) – Trace Matthews: “No one ever asks what a man’s role in the revolution is”: Gender and sexual politics in the Black Panther Party [...]
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Anti-capitalism today
Some helpful reading: Ross Wolfe: Capital in history, a lexicon Federico Campagna: Recurring Dreams – the red heart of fascism / I am not the 99% Facing the War: The position of the observer / Some thoughts on the occupations Adam Holland: Occupy Wall Street, antisemitism, and the perils of the big tent
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Tags: Anti-capitalism, Occupy, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, OWS
From Flesh is Grass: Looking for a definition of when extremism becomes populism I came across this definition of right wing populism at progressive USA think tank Political Research Associates: Producerism —the idea that the real Americans are hard–working people who create goods and wealth while fighting against parasites at the top and bottom of society who [...]
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Tags: Anselm Jappe, Bifo, Endnotes, Herman Gorter, Luther Blisset, Populism, producerism, robert kurz, Rudolf Rocker, Wu Ming
Critique and theory
Not sure if I’ve linked to these Libcom items already: From El Viejo Topo: interview on “curtailing economic growth” – Anselm Jappe An interview with Anselm Jappe about “curtailing economic growth” (“decrecimiento” in Spanish), a tendency that is becoming increasingly popular in certain circles in Europe, which he characterizes as “a reformism that wants to [...]
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Tags: Anselme Jappe, Anti-imperialism, Arya Zahedi, economic growth, economics, Green Anarchist, iran, Max Nordau, Primitivism
Ecological Headstand
A recommendation for Tom Walker’s blog. Here’s some stuff from it: OSLOndon In a late note to editors on the topic of the flaneur, Walter Benjamin discussed the customer’s empathy for the commodity and the commodity’s empathy for the customer. Instead of “work adorning the citizen” (“Arbeit ist des Bürgers Zierde”), in industrial society the [...]
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Tags: Anders Breivik, conspiracy theory, Critical theory, Cultural conservatism, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, right-wing extremism, Tom Walker, Walter Benjamin, William Lind, William S Lind
By Olaf Kistenmacher in Jungle World. In German (extract below the fold), but the conclusion in English is this: The view that an anti-Zionist antisemitism first emerged after the Six Day War is a common belief in contemporary discussions on the Left, as the recent debate on antisemitism in the German Left party shows. According to this view [...]
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Tags: anti-zionism, antisemitism, communism, German Communist Party, Jungle World, left antisemitism, marxism, national socialism, Olaf Kistenmacher, Weimar Republic, Zionism
Kritique and theory
The Communism blog has been publishing some very interesting and important material lately, including: How Germany Profits from Greece’s Crisis by Ingo Stützle ATTAC, The Critique of Globalization, and “Structural Antisemitism” by Gerhard Hanloser (“The truncated understandings of Marx’s Capital by Postone and the German Krisis group, among others, come in for a rigorous Marxological critique.” - CT) Ingo Elbe. Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – [...]
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Tags: Gerhard Hanloser, Ingo Stützle, marxism, Moishe Postone, Rosa Luxemburg
documentationsarchiv: reporting global fascism- Simon Wiesenthal Center grades social networking giants on digital hate, terror
- Neo-Nazis Taking to Terror
- EU survey of anti-Semitism gets under way, in first study of its kind
- Racist beating trial postponed
- Kampfansage an die braunen Burschenschaften
- Schluss, aus, vorbei: DVU nun auch offiziell begraben
- La ideología nazi se atrinchera y se multiplica en internet
- Im engen Kontakt zur NPD
- BGH lässt mutmaßlichen Helfer der Zwickauer Zelle frei
- Quebec law breaches Canada’s international human rights obligations
- ICARE news
- SDL OUTNUMBERED BY COUNTER-PROTEST ((uk)
- MALTESE MEPs VOTE IN FAVOUR OF EU RESOLUTION CONDEMNING HOMOPHOBIC LAWS, DISCRIMINATION
- TACKLING THE ROMA ISSUE THEIR OWN WAY (Hungary)
- EU SURVEY OF ANTI-SEMITISM GETS UNDER WAY, IN FIRST STUDY OF ITS KIND
- MUSLIMS OUTRAGED AT XENOPHOBIC GRAFFITI (Russia)
- PRIEST WHO RUNS RACIST WEBSITE FACES PROBE (Switzerland)
- AMNESTY: HUMAN RIGHTS IN MACEDONIA DETERIORATED
- FIVE ARRESTS FOLLOWING ATTACK ON MIGRANT CAMP IN PATRA (Greece)
- GREEK EXTREME RIGHTISTS FIGHT POLICE OVER MIGRANTS
- RACIST BEATING TRIAL POSTPONED (Greece)
- The CST: Monitoring antisemitism
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- Contested Terrain: platform against antisemitism and for emancipation
- International Antinationalism!
- Nuanced History of the Anti-Germans
- Beethoven Versus McDonalds
- Occupy, (anti-)Capitalism and the Right
- 99 Problems
- Jews and the Left – Conference, May 6-7, NYC
- OWS and rallying against antisemitic violence in Brooklyn
- OWS Official Statement Against Anti-Semitism
- November 9, 1938: “Where did ‘Kristallnacht’ take place?”
- Occupied with conspiracies? The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism, and the Conspiracy Theorists
- Shift: anti-capitalist perspectives
- A Useful Thing (in Conjunction with Other Useful Things): a Response to ‘A Vaguely Useful Thing’ by Henry Davis.
- “A Vaguely Useful Thing?”- An Event Report from the Big Six Energy Bash
- In Defence of Lifestyle Politics.
- Reproduction. Reproduction. Reproduction: Beyond the Factory Desert
- Creating Common Wealth and Cracking Capitalism: A cross-reading (Part I)
- International Antinationalism!
- Semio-capital and the problem of solidarity
- ‘Bout to explode: a day in the life of a precarious worker
- Scandalous Bodies in Occupied London
- From Plan A for Austerity to an Anti-Capitalist Plan C: An Interview with David Harvie
- Schalom Libertad: from Berlin in struggle
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- 3WayFight: our enemies’ enemies are often not our friends
- South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action Annual Zine #3 available
- Palestinian activists' statement denounces Gilad Atzmon's racism and antisemitism
- Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings”—Anti-Imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
- Between Pro-Fascism and Left-Populism: Reading Loren Goldner on the Bolivian MNR
- Anti-capitalist perspectives on the Occupy movement
- Conservatism studies: on the value and limits of academic history
- Stand up Against Racism and Transphobia!
- Occupy movement: Anti-capitalism versus populism
- Rightists woo the Occupy Wall Street movement
- State repression from Bush to Obama
- SlackBastard: against fascism, for anarchy
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- Who Makes the Nazis?
- We Demand Better
- 'Black metal' musician elected to Greek Parliament with Golden Dawn Fascist Party
- China Miéville: When Did Bigotry Get So Needy?
- Alexander Nym: A Call to Arms
- Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men
- LMHR Calls for Cancellation of Death in June at Camden Underworld
- Julius Evola: A Dangerous Beast
- Anti-Semitism from Beyond the Grave – Muslimgauze’s Jihad
- National Socialist Black Metal
- An Open Letter to Those Who Condemn Looting
- Planet Kommunismus
- Protokoll des Jour fixe München vom 14.05.12
- Arbejde og Rigdom (maj 24, 2012)
- Fundsachen: blogsport.de
- 29.05.12 | Nürnberg | Kritik an der Militärisierung der Gesellschaft: die Forderung nach Friedensklauseln für die Uni — eine verkehrte Antwort auf den alltäglichen Imperialismus (2)
- 02.06.12 | Düsseldorf | Ukraine – ein Gastgeberland der Fußballeuropameisterschaft und ein ungelöstes Problem im östlichen Vorfeld der EU
- [online] 23./24.05.12 | Frankfurt/Marburg | Die Menschenrechte: Heiligenschein und diplomatische Waffe der Staatsgewalt
- Krölls zur Kritik der Psychologie (Vortrag 10.05.12 in Augsburg)
- Ruthless Critisicm (May 2012)
- 21.06.12 | Köln | Weltherrschaft – yes, we can
- [update] 10.05.12 | Augsburg | Psychologie heute – so verkehrt wie populär!
