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Fanon and Mariátegui contra Grosfoguel and Coulthard
Although Ramón Grosfoguel et al. certainly take pride in the fact they draw from native resources, and hence do not rely on master thinkers from the Occident, it is unlikely that anyone not steeped in...
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The green pill: “Political correctness” and jihad
. So I downloaded and was reading the Islamic State’s webzine Dabiq — because hey, why not be on a terror watchlist? Comrade Coates shared something about it on Twitter, some vile passage that’d been...
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Culinary materialism
. Cooking a pot of beans from scratch is a revolutionary act that honors both your ancestors and future generations. Unless your ancestors happen to be Pythagoreans, of course. Decolonize Your Diet is...
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Demonology of the working class
One of the most common charges leveled at Marxists is that, for all their atheistic pretensions, they retain a quasi-religious faith in the revolutionary dispensation of working class dictatorship....
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On Stalin and Stalinism today
. Editorial note . Watson Ladd’s recent review of the latest issue of Crisis and Critique, in which a number of authors reflect on Stalin’s contemporary significance, appears below. It’s a huge issue,...
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Gustav Klutsis, revolutionary propagandist (1895-1938)
Gustavs Klucis — also known as Gustav Klutsis, the Russian spelling of his name — was one of the pioneers of Soviet agitprop graphic design, particularly prominent for his revolutionary use of the...
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Class, segmentation, racialization: Reading notes
Théorie Communiste Lucha No Feik Club (October 26, 2016) . . Editorial note . Originally published by Théorie Communiste as «Classe/segmentation/racisation. Notes». Translated from the...
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Reap the whirlwind
. But muh rainbow coalition of marginalized identities will smash the kyriarchy as we sprinkle magic diversity pixie dust over everyone and create a shiny liberal Starbucks utopia....
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Fear trumps love
One sign, waved by someone somehow #StillWithHer, reads: “Not my president.” Another echoes the popular chant: “We reject the president elect.” Finally, and most ubiquitously: “Love...
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Bookchin and Marx
“The future instead of the past”? Reid Kane Kotlas Platypus Review 90 October 22, 2016 . Originally presented as a talk at the 2016 Annual Gathering of the Institute for Social Ecology,...
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Protest politics in the age of Trump
So who else is mad as hell about the symbolic transfer of power between rival factions of the bourgeoisie? Remember all the demonstrations that spontaneously broke out eight years ago, when...
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Once again on the term “identitarian”
Angela Mitropoulos, an Australian academic and author of Contract and Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia, recently posted a note on her blog about the origins of the term...
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“Everyone’s a victim”: Relativizing Auschwitz with Adorno
. Auschwitz was liberated 72 years ago today. In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am reposting a recent article by Ingo Elbe on a new book by Marc Nicholas Sommer....
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Henri Lefebvre and Marxism: A view from the Frankfurt School
Lefebvre and contemporary interpretations of Marx Alfred Schmidt Frankfurt, 1968 . . In recent years the literature that has appeared about, for, and against Marx and Marxism has...
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Rosa Luxemburg and the party
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review May 21, 2016 . . In one of her earliest interventionsin the Social-Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), participating in the notorious theoretical...
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Marx and Engels on Karl Kautsky
. That Vladimir Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries of 1917 considered the Social-Democratic leader Karl Kautsky a pedant and a philistine is well known. Lenin pinpointed the reason...
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Materialism, postmodernity, and Enlightenment
Jacobin published an article just over a week ago entitled “Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia,” written by Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss. “Alt-right conspiracy theorists have...
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David Riazanov and the tragic fate of Isaak Rubin
Reportedly, the Russian revolutionary and pioneering Marxologist David Riazanov once insulted Stalin to his face at a party meeting held during the mid-1920s. At the time, the...
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Gary Johnson, Syria, and the apocalypse
. The best we can do right now with respect to Syria and various other world-historical phenomena is predict likely outcomes, since we have no ability to meaningfully alter the course of...
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Moar like Absurdo, amirite?
. Following the missile strike on Shayrat in Western Syria last Thursday, a wave of protests broke out across the United States. These proved something of a mixed bag, as one might expect. In...
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