(Terror) Warning: Angry Teenagers
Does understanding ISIS as a dynamic vanguard attractive to rebellious, thrill-seeking youth make it more, or less, scary?
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TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
Rojava Caught Between Fronts
It is conceivable that any movement towards Russia would sharply reduce sympathy in the West for Rojava, without anything about its political and social project having changed.
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The Fight to Expose Closed Systems of Brutality
People have had to struggle, have had to mount a movement, because the police fights tooth and nail against any monitoring.”
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A Different Kind of American Revolution
We always think of the war. But the war masks and hides the revolution. Those aren’t the same. You can have a revolution without a war.
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“No Different Than Slavery”
“My message to those who think the situation in Eritrea “has improved” is that right now, at this very moment, thousands of innocent Eritreans are suffering silently in jails and prisons, while their best years slip away.”
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In Wahlzeiten – Ein Arbeiterzwiegespräch
LUDWIG: Na sag mir mal, du bist also Anarchist?
KARL: Hör mir zu, was ich dir sage, und wenn meine Ausführungen dir richtig erscheinen, dann kannst du daraus lernen … Ja, ich bin Anarchist … nun, was dann?
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Resisting Left Melancholy
“Heaviness of heart derives from routine. For to be in a routine means to have sacrificed one’s idiosyncrasies, to have forfeited the gift of distaste. And that makes one heavy-hearted.”
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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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Iran: Workers Movement Statement on the Death in Custody of Shahrokh Zamani
This untimely death will naturally appear suspicious to any unbiased person. But even without any such suspicions, the conditions in prisons – especially for worker activists and political prisoners – are already murderous enough, for a thousand and one reasons.
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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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