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October 20, 2009
… should your intervention say?
October 10, 2009
… is the contribution of recent German writers to marxism?
Long time readers of this blog (all three of them) will know that I often write about my dissatisfaction with the work of recent German marxist and post-marxist writers such as Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Louis Althusser, and Gilles Deleuze, among others. (more…)
September 27, 2009
… did I think of Hamerquist’s piece on Lenin?
I took a whole mess of notes on Don Hamerquist’s recent essay on Lenin and contemporary radical organization. Then I beat those notes into a slightly less jumbled thing, trying to work out what I think is going on in the piece and what I think of it.
The essay is doing a lot. (more…)
July 24, 2009
… is class struggle anarchism?
Hat tip to Tom Wetzel for this fine article. Check it out. Full disclosure and a little bragging, I know Tom, we’re both involved in the Workers Solidarity Alliance, so I’m biased. Anyhow, read his piece. (more…)
June 17, 2009
… is a general strike?
I put up a speech Staughton Lynd gave in Minneapolis a few years back, about general strikes. (more…)
June 12, 2009
… did folk have to say?
I circulated that draft of a thing I wrote on mass work to some comrades and got a few comments in response. Here are some of those comments and what they made me think of. Part of what I’ve got rattling around in my mind is a phrase Adam used when we talked recently about the Furious Five, “building a new base for anarchism.” Also rattling around in my mind are the various things in that diagram on organizational work that I sketched out on note cards to try and get clearer on stuff. (more…)
June 10, 2009
… was the Furious Five?
An anarchist collective. (more…)
June 9, 2009
… is the importance of mass work?
So I wrote this thing, partly putting down some of the thoughts that occurred to me as I was reading this stuff on social insertion. (more…)