Category Archives: anarchism

Raoul Vaneigem: “Everything Starts Here and Now”

Posted on February 8, 2020 by

“Peaceful insurrection is demilitarized guerilla war. It must have the self-organization of autonomous communes as its basis and goal. Our most powerful enemy isn’t so much the authority of the master as the resignation of the slaves.”

Posted in agonism, anarchism, autonomy, fraternity, freedom, Nota Bene, revolt, rights, the common, the Left

Dietrich Hoss: “What can, what must keep us standing: About revolutionary ethics”

Posted on February 7, 2020 by

“Everywhere it has become clear to many people something that we have learned with difficulty: there is nothing and no one to trust; neither the laws of history, nor party-churches. We can only trust ourselves; we can only hold on alone, with accomplices, on the basis of revolutionary ethics. In the face of the external and internal enemy, never give up, no conciliation or accommodation; identify positions and maneuvers, and gain self-control as one tries to conquer places outside.”

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Raul Vaneigem: “Insurrection as a politics of life”

Posted on December 23, 2019 by

“Autonomy, self-organisation, self-defence“

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ROAR Collective: A Dual Power Reading List

Posted on December 22, 2019 by

An anthology from the magazine.

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lundi matin: “A strange time/weather”

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“Furio Jesi distinguishes between revolt and revolution, which cut across two different times. Revolt is not an aborted revolution. Revolt is the time of myth, a time that bursts in, that breaks historical causality. … The revolutionary parties or any structured organisation are thus incapable of taking part in the revolt and even less of directing it because their actions are part of the long time, of causal time, where each act is taken in the game of means and ends. Each action has a purpose and a certain effectiveness. Revolt suspends this machine of means and ends, this mechanical calculation of the movements of revolutionaries and the reactions of the adversary. We throw ourselves headlong into the revolt. We go there with method and patience in the revolution.”

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Bree Busk: “The popular assemblies at the heart of the Chilean uprising”

Posted on December 12, 2019 by

“Chile has a long history of radical neighborhood organizing — a tradition that is now put at the service of drafting a new constitution for a country in turmoil.”

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Daniel Denvir: “Today’s Socialist Revival Began on the Streets of Seattle 20 Years Ago”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by

“The global justice movement exploded onto the scene in protests against the Seattle WTO meetings twenty years ago today. The movement was far from perfect, but its anarchist, direct action-oriented politics were crucial learning experiences for a left that has today finally found its footing.”

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“Everything is burning already; Let us burn together!”

Posted on November 29, 2019 by

“if we want peace, we will first go through war.  It is total war, planetary, nature defending itself against the civilisational monster; riotous war, protean, of a world bursting with rage to live against the costumed puppets that bleed it white. This war is already taking place everywhere, and is intensifying devilishly in the immense revolutionary leap that is drumming at the golden gates of the great spawning.  All countries are rising up.”

Posted in anarchism, emergency, Nota Bene, revolution, tragic politics, violence

Yavor Tarinski interviewed on “Direct democracy and the passion for political participation”

Posted on November 19, 2019 by

‘If we want create a radically democratic and ecological society, we will have to abandon all bureaucratic and exploitative means. It is not enough to consume ethically or vote for the lesser evil. We have to build democratic and resilient communities capable of confederating with each other so as to tackle large-scale issues. As Castoriadis has said, “an autonomous society cannot be instaurated except through the autonomous activity of the collectivity.” This might sound too general or abstract, but the direct democracy of which we are speaking represents such a paradigm shift, that must surpass both globalization and localism and can lead towards genuine social emancipation.’

Posted in anarchism, autonomy, Castoriadis, democracy, founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, the Left

Paul Le Blanc: “Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“If we take these ideas of Luxemburg, Lukács, and Gramsci seriously, we must realize that all of them were making reference to a context that no longer exists in 2019.  A hundred years ago there existed a substantial global labor movement, profoundly influenced by the theory of historical materialism, and with a dynamic and influential left wing infused with the sense of the actuality of revolution.  That was obliterated between the First World War and the twilight of the twentieth century. Something like it remains to be rebuilt.”

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