January 2012
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
“The “proletarian dictatorships” of the early 20th century were inextricably...”
– http://signalfire.org/?p=13022
“Concretely we need:
1: Cadre organizations developing a collective process of...”
– Social revolution is not existentialism but a concrete material project
http://signalfire.org/?p=14806
“The construction of the proletariat as a truly unified political subject able to...”
– http://signalfire.org/?p=15026
September 2011
2 posts
http://www.politicsisnotabanana.com/2011/09/these-c...
Therefore, the tactical departure (or resuscitation) that we attempted was, rather than an internal development of the anarchist milieu, a selective reactivation of possibilities in adaptation to the times. A new iteration of capitalist sociability made a certain theoretical hypothesis realistic, and so we took the torch held out to us. Held out to us by terrorism. We were not the only...
what is to grub...
“Frequently it seems that the world spirit has forgotten and lost itself. But inside it resists. Internally it continues to labour — as Hamlet said of his father’s ghost: ‘Well said, old mole! canst work i’ the ground so fast?’ — until it gathers strength, and breaks through the earth’s crust separating it from its sun, from its reason. And then the world spirit forges ahead rejuvenated with...
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
There is a philosophical term in Hegel for thinking in finite categories. He calls it Understanding. When you recognize that the categories of thought are not finite but move, and when you know how and why they move, then your method is the method of Reason. Don’t think you know that categories move. You don’t. You just don’t until you know how and why. You must be patient and...
“…
To champion the destruction of capitalism in 2011 is to champion nihilism. To destroy capitalism is to destroy everything that it has created, and to honestly go about this task is to be a nihilist in the eyes of all the others who still have something invested in this world. And so I am advocating a conscious nihilism, a nihilism that is not a reaction to the...
June 2011
8 posts
Tough Baby
Tough baby – A certain gesture of manliness, be it one’s own, be it that of another, deserves mistrust. It expresses independence, surety of the power of command, the silent conspiracy of all men with each other. Earlier one anxiously called it, awe-struck, the whims of lords, today it is democratized and is played by film heroes for the benefit of the lowliest bank employee. The archetype...
Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle...
10) We should steer clear of outmoded, passive and static tactics, such as the use of barricades, mass demonstrations and student style struggles. It is of the utmost importance that we invent and experiment with new and unexpected tactics. 11) The success of urban guerrilla tactis employed as a tactical back-up for occupied factories depends upon the speed and effectiveness of such raids....
““A truly subversive doctrine would have required a more serious punishment...”
“The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of...”
– Walter Benjamin
Today, it is not easy to establish a clear and straight line from the organisation developing during this `implantation’ period to the birth of the EZLN. But what’s for sure is the existence of this link. After a lapse of time other Maoist groups arrived in Chiapas. Marcos himself would have been among one of the last “brigades”. A lot of militants and political leaders...
“It was a deus ex machina, which came from who knows where to account for...”
– Christine Delphy
May 2011
8 posts
“Tonight’s event should fill you with ominous forebodings: first the take-over of...”
– http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/oulipo/texts/garreta/times.html
Misogyny as
-determinant principles
-taste
by way of discursive and/or social/material practices.
Patriarchy as
-real social inequalities
-ontological categorizations
Then, at the very end of the sixties, women who had been radical in counterculture terms—women who had been both politically and sexually active—became radical in new terms: they became feminists. They were not Betty Friedan’s housewives. They had fought out on the streets against the Viet Nam War; some of them were old enough to have fought in the South for black civil...
“we spent the day on the mediterrenean, reading “limits of experience:...”
“As soon as, through the movement of those forces tending towards rupture,...”
– Maurice Blanchot
“Art is a pharmaceutical product for idiots.”
– francis picabia
“There is no class “purity,” not even in shop floor organizations....”
– Selma James- Sex, Race and Class
April 2011
6 posts
“You’re such a black hole ___. You need to make something out of the black...”
– From a friend, over the phone.
And here I am no doubt going to shock you by speaking of positive technologies, inventions that have often been very “feminine.” Every new bomb bore a woman’s name, every airplane, every ship. Canning, for example, was one of the first objects of industrialization that brought about real change. For the first time, a whole population of women was no longer confined to the...
In my own philosophical work, I urge awareness of a class struggle, and the “prole” that slumbers in me considers that the Heideggerian oblivion remains terribly elitist, the ruse of a false peasant.
-Avital Ronell, Fighting Theory
“For the whore, is is of extreme importance to be at all times stunning, both in...”
– How to tell if someone you’re close to is a whore
March 2011
21 posts
In such conditions, the foremost duty of any conscious subversive is to unpityingly cast out of the minds of people called to action any illusion about terrorism. As I have already said elsewhere, historically, terrorism has never had any revolutionary efficacity, except where every other form of manifestation of subversive activity had been rendered impossible by a complete repression; and...
“It is difficult to wake up in
the morning in an unworthy world,
in between...”
– http://325.nostate.net/library/ccf.pdf
“Her face, reflection illuminated, has lost its beauty. Every wrinkle and tear...”
– http://www.politicsisnotabanana.com/2011/03/delete-me-im-so-ugly-new-text-on.html
"p.s. new mixtape" →
1. rome violente - scorpion violente 2. set it on fire - the scientists 3. start repeating - the shadow ring 4. sandstone - tamaryn 5. IBM untitled - flower man 6. now i’m hi, pt. 3 - three 6 mafia 7. raining tears of blood - chris & cosey 8. ris x - rene hell 9. screen idol from france - phantom pain days 10. le reve que j’ai fait - TG
Thanks A.D.F.
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unlimited wild general strike
General Strike – \’jen-rəl ‘strɪk\ (noun) A mass strike in all trades, sectors, and industries in all parts of a city, state, or country.
Unlimited Strike – \un-’li-mə-təd ‘strɪk\ (noun) An indefinite strike, which begins with no pre-established date for an ending, and will continue until the workers’ collectively decide on its conclusion.
Wildcat Strike – \’wɪ(-ə)l(d)-kat ‘strɪk\ (noun) An...
“All means are good for getting our friends out of prison,” it was said, in that case you only have to denounce or denounce your other friends for the alleged acts. “If we have moved to Tarnac it is of course for its old tradition of resistance to central authority, popular mutual aid, and rural communism that survived there.” You forgot to mention that if you installed in...
“For everyone to be able to recognize himself or herself in it the actions and the words explaining them must be understood and shared by everyone. You can’t offer a general collective identity and claim that each one renounces their individuality. That can only be done if the actions realized and the words spoken remain at a level that is so low as to limit dissent as far as possible: very...
“The speeches were unremarkable, of a generally pep rally tone, interrupted by loud applause and chants. No speech I heard (and I was admittedly paying more attention to the crowd than the speakers) said anything about the capitalist system or the idea that these attacks were merely a continuation of attacks on the American working class going back to the 1970’s. No one called for a break...
“Somebody in the crowd fired a pistol and the people again started to
scream hysterically, ‘Kill the niggers! Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the
niggers!’ The mob started to throw stones on top of my car. So I opened
the door of the car and I put one foot on the ground and stood up in the
door holding an Italian carbine.
All this time three policeman had been standing about fifty feet
...
“We from Aulnay, Evry, Corbeil-Essonnes…
And from another three hundred cities....”
– Nous les zonards voyous
http://www.quinterna.org/lingue/english/articles_en/zonards_voyous.htm
The Time is Right to Talk About Paedophilia →
A short and somewhat upsetting discussion on perversion, misogyny, abuse, and early 60’s german leftism by way of a biographical note on Klaus Rainer Röhl, husband of Ulrike Meinhof, penned by his daughter.
“The British suffragettes were the most radical of all; led by the Pankhurst sisters, they had moved on to a revolutionary feminism marked by direct action. After 1911, as we have seen, active militancy had become a watchword, and in the first months of 1913 British suffragettes smashed shop windows in the West End with hammers hidden in their muffs, destroyed golf courses with acid, burned...
