“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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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.
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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Syrien und die westliche Linke
Man lässt es zu, dass die Menschen zu Hunderten getötet werden, dann zu Tausenden, dann zu zehn Tausenden, dann zu hundert Tausenden. Was denken sie wird dann geschehen?
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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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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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Police Violence from Ferguson to Rio
The police will argue that they have to be heavy-handed with criminals because they’re under attack, because it’s a ‘war.’ But they won’t admit that they’re creating a climate of terror.
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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
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