What in the hell …

More importantly, am I enough ahead of the trend to claim extra indie cool points? Via Jodi and Barry, news of a new Mao collection introduced by man about town Mr S Zizek. (more…)

Wow.

It’s David Harvey’s term for primitive accumulation (more…)

Last month my friend Philip pointed me to a passage in the German Ideology where Marx refers to (the) precarious (position of) labor. I think he’s going to write something on that. I hope so. I finally got around to chasing up the reference to it tonite. No time to say anything now, but there’s much to read here, and I should check the German as well. For now, my usual note to come back later to the much interest turned up here.

Update on this. (more…)

A lot. Red November, Black November is a great read, well written and documented. (more…)

I like the guy or whatever, but what’s he talking about?

Asked “You claim that nowadays the enemy is not capitalism but democracy. Why?” he responds “[C]apitalism as a system is an enemy of human emancipation. I also think that there is no signification today in the idea of directly fighting against it, because capitalism is an abstract and objective system, a structural domination. So we have to fight the political expression of capitalism, and not directly its economic imaginary.”

Bah. Bah, I say! (Via.)

Anarcho-patriots are people who have immigrated to Anarchy (Anarchy is a nation of immigrants, no one is born there) and adopted it as their new homeland. Like all patriots they love their homeland and wave its flag at every opportunity. They are obsessed with asserting that theirs is the best country in the world, sometimes even to the extent of asserting “Anarchy, Right Or Wrong!” They love to recount the history of their great nation, praising its successes and denouncing the traitors who created its failures.

Some anarcho-patriots see it as their mission to convince others to immigrate as well. Others take it on themselves to act as the INS for Anarchy, making sure that everyone who claims residence in Anarchy has the proper credentials and bloodline. Anarcho-patriots are often hesitant to get involved in something which is not wrapped in their flag. If they do get involved, they will often insist that the project where an armband or wave the flag of the nation. This may be because they want to convince others to immigrate, or because they are afraid of having their citizenship questioned by Anarchy’s INS. Or, they may be concerned that they are betraying their homeland. Or, they may have other anxieties which drive their patriotism - their citizenship serves them as a sort of security blanket. As with all cases of well-intentioned and poorly thought out nationalism, we should treat anarcho-patriots with understanding and kindness, while at the same time firmly but respectfully asserting our positions.