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You can always tell when someone hasn't read Hellworld or its sources.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You can always tell when someone hasn't read Hellworld or its sources.
Weird stuff. Seems like the opposite of what Marx was saying.
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Weird stuff. Seems like the opposite of what Marx was saying.
The author clearly has no idea what they are talking about tho, if anything anarchists collaborated with the state too much and that weakened the movement. Not sure if they have any idea how Morocco played into it either, as the article is paywalled.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The author clearly has no idea what they are talking about tho, if anything anarchists collaborated with the state too much and that weakened the movement. Not sure if they have any idea how Morocco played into it either, as the article is paywalled.
I would say they, or some anarchists, at least, are partly to blame for it. But it's false to place primary blame on the anarchists. And there would have been no resistance if not for the anarchists initial efforts. The fascists would have won day one.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I would say they, or some anarchists, at least, are partly to blame for it. But it's false to place primary blame on the anarchists. And there would have been no resistance if not for the anarchists initial efforts. The fascists would have won day one.
"Consciousness intensifies the capital relation" is a funny one because since capital is a social relation, without consciousness, it could not even exist in the first place. Not sure how consciousness as such could intensify it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Consciousness intensifies the capital relation" is a funny one because since capital is a social relation, without consciousness, it could not even exist in the first place. Not sure how consciousness as such could intensify it.
and no one can accuse him of being a pacifist, tho they probably wish they could
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
and no one can accuse him of being a pacifist, tho they probably wish they could
Like Bacon's Rebellion, the American Revolution was not a struggle for freedom from tyranny, it was a struggle among tyrants over the spoils of colonial conquest. It was a counter-revolution against the resistance launched by slaves and Natives to the proto-yanks.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Like Bacon's Rebellion, the American Revolution was not a struggle for freedom from tyranny, it was a struggle among tyrants over the spoils of colonial conquest. It was a counter-revolution against the resistance launched by slaves and Natives to the proto-yanks.
"The Radical Republican-led U.S. government did not deploy enough troops or use them aggressively. Nor did it pursue alternative paths that might have made success more likely, such as arming the Black community."
White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States
Abstract. Reconstruction failed in the United States because white Southerners who were opposed to it effectively used violence to undermine Black political power and force uncommitted white Southerne...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"The Radical Republican-led U.S. government did not deploy enough troops or use them aggressively. Nor did it pursue alternative paths that might have made success more likely, such as arming the Black community."
This is a problem in itself but also one of the problems with wars between states and the consequent upswing in nationalism. One wrong is used to whitewash another.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is a problem in itself but also one of the problems with wars between states and the consequent upswing in nationalism. One wrong is used to whitewash another.
Celebration of outright fascist organizations (the UPA/OUN literally worked with Hitler's Nazis & committed pogroms) is being normalized within the global anarchist scene and nobody is doing anything about it. The apologists for fascism are claiming they're the victims.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Celebration of outright fascist organizations (the UPA/OUN literally worked with Hitler's Nazis & committed pogroms) is being normalized within the global anarchist scene and nobody is doing anything about it. The apologists for fascism are claiming they're the victims.
Agreed. The Pannekoek erasure must stop.
Anton Pannekoek: Value Theory (1908)
This is a first and approximative translation of Pannekoek’s short text from 1908 titled “Werttheorie”, which Mike Gouldhawke found here. Please let me know (via twitter: @alraven…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Agreed. The Pannekoek erasure must stop.