Posts Tagged ‘Naomi Klein’
Kritik & theory
The left, global kicking off, and communisation theory Roger Rashi, Sam Gindin, Stephen Eric Bronner, Aaron Benanav, & Richard Rubin: Program and utopia. Extracts: Aaron Benanav (Endnotes): …We in Endnotes want to say, “There was never a time when the Left really mattered. What mattered was something else — the workers’ movement.” The concept of the Left provided a way for Social […]
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Tags: Critical theory, Endnotes, Frankfurt School, Jodi Dean, Keith Hart, marxism, Michael Heinrich, Michel Foucault, Naomi Klein, Paul Krugman, Platypus, Shock Doctrine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Bronner
The best of the Sunday papers
“Radical critique is not about exchanging compliments, but about looking at the limitations of movements which claim to be anti-capitalist and trying to contribute to their development. The task of over-emphasising the ’sexy and inspiring’ sides is better left to the various direct action conferences and gatherings, whose only purpose seems to be exactly that: […]
Filed under: Autonomous politics, critique and theory | Leave a Comment
Tags: Anselm Jappe, climate justice, Exit, Greece, insurrectionary anarchism, Krisis, marxism, Moishe Postone, Naomi Klein, pirate radio, Summer of Rage, value critique, Wu Ming
From Engage: Here are some boycotters of Israel after a successful campaign to rid Sussex University Student Union’s shelves of all those mounds of Israeli produce which were there before. But what is this? The feet of our international conscience appear to be clad in Nike. Haven’t these people read Naomi Klein from back when […]
Filed under: psuedo-alternative culture, the anti-Zionism of idiots | 7 Comments
Tags: BDS, boycotts, Ethical Consumer, Israel boycott, microwaves, Naomi Klein, Nike, No Logo, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sanyo, Socialist Action, Sussex University, Sussex University Student Union
Variousness 9
The Debate Link about The Meaning of Haj Amin al Husseini. Extract: Daniel Schwammenthal has an interesting column up about a German exhibition that was to note Nazi sympathy in the Arab and Palestinian community (expressed notably, but not uniquely, by Haj Amin al Husseini), as part of a broader exploration of “The Third World […]
Filed under: Antifa, Baader-Meinhof, germany, national anarchism and autonomous nationalism, Nazis in the Middle East | 3 Comments
Tags: Antifa, Baader-Meinhof Complex, Haj Amin al Husseini, Inglourious Basterds, Naomi Klein, national anarchists, Quentin Tarantino
Naomi Klein, who is no fool, appears to be involved in a selective boycott of Israel. She calls for an economic and cultural boycott of the country, but is there now, presumably spending some money, for the Israeli launch of her book The Shock Doctrine. This requires a certain amount of tightrope walking, the sort […]
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Tags: boycotts, Israel, Naomi Klein, Palestine
Variousness 3
Music: Uncarved on dubstep releases. Django on the best music of 2008. Octopus 2: Fresh poulp. Antisemitism and conspiracy theory: Special feature: Scandanavia: Manfred Gerstenfeld on Norway as a new paradigm for antisemitism. Jonathan Leman and Gudmondson on the Swedish Social Democrat supporters of Hezbollah. Francis Sedgemore on the Danish intifada. Principia Dialectica on critical […]
Filed under: Anti-anti-Zionism, Fascism and antisemitism, music, Northern Europe | Leave a Comment
Tags: Denmark, dubstep, Gaza, George Orwell, Holocaust, Israel, Jim Slepper, Naomi Klein, Norway, Palestine, sweden
Anti-National Translation 