By the way, calling yourself an "uninvited" settler is weird.

It feels like one is putting words in the mouth of Indigenous and other colonized peoples, and simultaneously crying out, "poor me, i'm a victim too!"

Even weirder if you chose to come to North America yourself. Uh, just leave?

Currently reading:

"Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval" by C.B. Macpherson, recommended by prof.

"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, recommended by like ~5~ different people.

"The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" by Kevin Anderson 1/2

I cannot give @anarchozoe.bsky.social's "Means and Ends" a more glowing recommendation. Her reconstruction of the Anarchist theory of practice is particularly robust, and through every chapter of the book, I learned more than I expected to.

(I finished it months ago, just remembered I had bsky now)

Now on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social : Frantz Fanon at 100. Films inspired by the life and work of Frantz Fanon.
www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...

"A 'left-wing' politics needs to shake off the whole pro-work imaginary of waged employment indexed to the production of quantifiable goods." Yves Citton, Mythocracy

Looking forward to diving into this.

Written by Zoe Baker, can find her here on bluesky.

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

This is true... too many "activist" who call themselves "organizers" don't organize anything but demonstrations. In New Orleans I used to call them "event planners" because that's all they did. Plan one event after another. As if a demonstration is an adequate means of communicating with the public.

Out now - The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson

The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism.

This is an introduction to council communism that I wrote with a paragraph or two on why I am trying to apply council communism to food organizing! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The primitive accumulation of followers phase of the Bluesky mode of production.

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

It's very surreal to see an academic who's name I had only known through their work appear here on BlueSky. Perhaps especially those I had not reacted favourably too - it's a good reminder to always 'see the human.'

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Law & Marxism 2024 - a review of my book "Tragedy of Law" about life & death of Evgeny Pashukanis by Igor Shoikhedbrod. Inspiring a revisited translation of the play soon ☄️
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21286_…

Again, the perfect breeding ground for radicalization.

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root. To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.”

- Marx