“Is This Even Capitalism Anymore?”
Social democracy, fascism, and state communism are a lot more similar, in certain structural ways, than any of them want to admit.
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“Violence” at Blockupy: Enough with the Hypocrisy!
Some background on Blockupy ECB, which grew out of the global Occupy movement and has learned and grown in the face of violent state repression—where nearly every other Occupy site faltered.
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Russian Avant-Garde in the Age of Disinformation
Imagine Alex Jones were running your TV—your national TV stations, all of them at the same time. Then you get the world we’re talking about.
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Public-Private Partnership in Your Pocket
The real threat is a totalitarian society that seduces you, that blinds you, that subtly frightens you with external enemies, and tells you that giving up freedom is necessary to preserve your freedom.
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Fighting the Violent Patriarchy in Turkey
The religious-conservative ideological imposition that women should behave according to their purpose of creation is the discourse that perpetuates violence against women.
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In Defense of the F-Word
There are elements of neoliberalism that we consider fascistic. Let’s start calling them by their name.
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Rojava Versus the World
The people in Rojava actively oppose capitalism as an economic system. They oppose the premises on which the international order is built, such as the state, such as patriarchy.
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Doesn’t That Make It a “Death Camp?”
I thought it was just another detainee holding facility. But we knew that it was not on the map; this was not on the books.
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What Form Should Our Antifascism Take?
Antifascism as a purely reactive, defensive strategy will not win us any new oppositional territory, as recent years have shown. Without a politics of class and without a real-existing infrastructure, Antifa remains a kind of ineffectual fire department that keeps falling back on the mere defense of bourgeois society.
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The False Friends of Rojava
The significance of the struggle in Kobanê cannot be overstated. But real international solidarity won’t come in the form of military intervention.
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