Abolishing Work (1982)
Under the conditions of capitalist production, the labor movement’s moralistic program can only be applied to work that is regarded as work by society.
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Productions
Articles and conversations the creation or presentation of which was made possible by the direct participation of the Antidote Writers Collective in our role as clerks of the revolution! Somebody has to do the dishes, and somebody has to be the notetaker and interpreter. We do what we can.
Reinventing Digital Media
“There’s so much that could be done that’s more unconventional.”
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Neoliberalism’s Fatal Faith in Debt Fiction
When Smith and Mill and the classical economists talked about ‘free’ markets, they meant an economy free of rent, free of interest, free of parasitism. Today in the United States, the whole idea is that a free market is free for the parasites.
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Reinterpreting the Chinese Capital “Scramble” in Africa
“Africa is not just this blank slate and these big companies are coming in and buying up land and kicking out people. There are politics going on.”
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A Hunger Strike Against Rapacious Education “Reform”
Parents and community members show their commitment to a vision for an alternative to the authoritarian capitalist approach to public education.
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How the World Works, For Now
The system works by enforcing a very strict and irrational economic model on people and telling them that it’s for their own benefit. It’s hard to fight because the ideology is so strong, and backed by so many intelligent people,
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Violence, Humiliation, Spectacle, and Fascism
When we see the specter of fascism rising around what this guy is doing, then the stakes are much higher than simply calling him a loon.
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Democratic Self-Administration Also For Iran
Considering the danger of a true third world war, the opportunity to take a serious, radical step in the struggle for democracy in the Middle East must be recognized and seized.
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Adapt or Die: The Flexible Future of Protest
“The end of protest” doesn’t mean the absence of protest. The end of protest means the proliferation of ineffective protest.
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Burma, a Revolutionary Crucible
“In Egypt in 2011, they were where Burma was in 1988. Burma has a very long history, now, of resistance to military rule, and different ways to go about that. It’s not just about getting millions of people into the streets. What do you do next?”
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