The “Extremism” Cudgel
The political signaling of this ban on an internet platform is clear: it is not merely an attack on a specific structure but against the entire left.
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Translations
Articles and interviews translated by the Antidote Writers Collective. Note that we also feature translations from other sources as well, but do not include them here.
Incidentally, translation (mainly from German or Spanish into English) is labor we are willing to do upon request or suggestion, with adequate compensation: we’re an unfunded project so we can be coaxed into selling our labor for money. But! if we like the material we’re translating we also accept permission to post as fair reward.
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Climate Change and Social Upheaval
We have to fundamentally alter society if we don’t want to disappear as a civilization, or even perhaps as a species. And we have very little time—in the best case, a generation.
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Iñaki and Me
Iñaki need not worry about being thrown in prison; he need not fear pursuit: the Spanish justice system does not persecute his ethnicity. He currently lives in a villa on Lake Geneva. His bank account is full.
“In our mouths, words become crimes.”
The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
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Post-G20 Reflections
How long will we let ourselves be intimidated by state violence, all the while shouting, “We won’t be intimidated!”?
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After the Storm at the Border
We have failed in our initial attempts at political intervention. The situation of migrants has continued to deteriorate since summer 2015, and has gotten progressively more insulated from public scrutiny.
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Mosul: What a Waste. A Materialist Analysis of ISIS
The Islamic State is just another product of the capitalist barbarism which always provides fertile ground for religious violence—and therefore cannot be fought merely by military means.
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Critique and Panic
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
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“Fear of death is nothing; not being able to live is worse.”
Other fears are more essential than the fear of death. The fear of standing alone, or the fear that what you’re doing is futile. Those kinds of fears are more real, and are much more present in Europe than here.
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Community Self-Defense and a Politics of Life
It was normal people who took to the streets, attacked the police, and defended themselves against eviction. This resistance stopped a plan for two hundred forced evictions. It was a spontaneous coming-together in the neighborhood, among people who up to that point weren’t really organized.
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