By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. - Mikhail Bakunin
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via anarcutie)
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Today is the day
Left communism/the ultraleft
Kind of setting out a reading list of individuals and organizations broadly associated with left communism or the ultraleft. A lot of this I’ve already read, but a lot of it I haven’t, and some of it I need to re-read.
What do you think? Did I miss anything?
Rosa Luxemburg
The Mass Strike by Rosa Luxemburg
Leninism or Marxism by Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect by Paul Mattick Sr.
Workers Opposition/Russian left communism
The Workers’ Opposition by Alexandra Kollontai
Lenin’s Terror within the Bolshevik Party by Gregori Maximov
1919-1922: The Workers’ Opposition
Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers’ Group by Paul Avrich
The German/Dutch Left
The German-Dutch Communist Left by Philippe Bourrinet
The Communist Left in Germany 1918-1921 by Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier
Workers Councils by Anton Pannekoek
The councilist movement in Germany (1914-1935): A history of the AAUD-E tendency
Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany by Paul Mattick
Council Communism by Mark Shipway
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair by Otto Rühle
Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution by GIK
Anton Pannekoek and the theory of the transition by Radical Chains
Italian Left/BordigistsBordiga versus Pannekoek by Antagonism
Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters by Antagonism
Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today by Loren Goldner
The Bordigist Current by Philippe Bourrinet
Seize Power or Seize the Factory? by Amadeo Bordiga
Towards the establishment of workers’ councils in Italy by Amadeo Bordiga
Spanish Revolution
Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts by Michael Seidman
Spain 1936, the end of anarchist syndicalism? by Subversion
Self management and the Spanish revolution by Point Blank
Hungary 1956
Hungary ‘56: “the proletariat storming heaven” by Mouvement Communiste
Hungarian revolution 1956 by Scorcher Publications
Situationists/May 1968
Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement by Situationist International
Worker-Student Action Committees, France May ‘68 by Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman
May-June 1968 - A Situation Lacking in Workers’ Autonomy by Mouvement Communiste
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The revolution of everyday life by Raoul Vaneigem
Critique of the Situationist International by Gilles Dauve
Militancy: Highest stage of Alienation by OJTR
1970s Spainish assembly movement
Wildcat Spain encounters democracy, 1976-1978
Critical assessment of “Wildcat Spain” book
Report on the Assembly Movement by Miguel Amoros
The French Ultraleft
Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement by Gilles Dauve and Francois Martin
Endnotes No. 1 by Endnotes, Troploin & Theorie Communiste
Self-organisation is the first act of the revolution; it then becomes an obstacle which the revolution has to overcome by Theorie Communiste
Capitalism and communism by Gilles Dauvé
Unions and political struggle by Mouvement Communiste
The Refusal of Work by Echanges et Mouvement
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
Greece
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time by TPTG
December 2008, Greece: An attempt to detect the power and the limits of our struggle by Blaumachen
Greece: the fiscal crisis of the state puts the need for an Independent workers’ politics on the agenda by Mouvement Communiste
The glass floor by Théo Cosme
The Ivory Tower of Theory: A Critique of Theorie Communiste and “The Glass Floor” by TPTG
Other Stuff
The Reproduction of Everyday Life by Fredy Perlman
Communization and its discontents: Contestation, critique, and contemporary struggles edited by Benjamin Noys
What was the USSR? by Aufheben
The revolutionary alternative to left-wing politics by Subversion
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group by Sam Moss
The myth of working class passivity by Radical Chains
The Welfare State isn’t now, and never was, a “genuine gain for the working class” by Workers Playtime
Nihilist communism by Monsieur Dupont
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"The liberal discourse on gentrification has absolutely nothing to say about finance or prison, the two most salient institutions in urban life. Instead, it does what liberal discourse so often does: it buries the structural forces at work and choreographs a dance about individual choice to perform on the grave. We get tiny dramas over church parking lots and bike lanes and whether 7-11 will be able to serve chicken wings. Gentrification becomes a culture war, a battle over consumer choices: gourmet cupcake shop or fried chicken joint? Can we all live side by side, eating gourmet pickles with our fried fish sandwiches? Will blacks and whites hang out in the same bars? wonders Racialicious.
The problems of gentrification always boil down to those of mutual tolerance (and so, poor black people often become “racists” intolerant of yuppies); the solutions, therefore, reside in personal conduct and ethical choices. In “How To Be A Good Gentrifier,” Elahe Izadi offers such helpful pointers as saying hello to your neighbors and not crossing the street to avoid them. After all, if you’re going to participate in the expulsion of poor people from their communities, you might as well be civil."
- Liberalism and Gentrification by Gavin Mueller // Jacobin Magazine (via mizoguchi)
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This MLK Day I remember not the “sanitized,” white washed, hollowed out version of King that white people have turned into a puppet of white supremacy. Instead, the King I remember and give homage to today was the radical anti-capitalist who led the Poor People’s Campaign before his murder. I remember the anti-imperialist who worked with Thich Nhat Hanh and called the US government the “greatest purveyor of violence” on Earth, and forcefully condemned the War in Vietnam. I remember a King who NEVER condemned rioting as a form of resistance because he understood that using non-violence only worked in certain contexts and was just one tactic of many in dismantling white supremacy. And I remember the King who was one of the most hated men in white America on the eve of his death and who was assassinated by the US government for his radical anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-white supremacist message. We must #ReclaimMLK today and in the process #ReclaimOURstory as well.
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When you ask [Socialists] how domestic work can be organized, they answer: “Each can do ‘his own work.’ My wife manages the house; the wives of bourgeois will do as much.” And if it is a bourgeois playing at Socialism who speaks, he will add, with a gracious smile to his wife: “Is it not true, darling, that you would do without a servant in a Socialist society? You would work like the wife of our good comrade Paul or the wife of John the carpenter?”
Servant or wife, man always reckons on woman to do the house-work.
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Why has woman’s work never been of any account? […] Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think “of those kitchen arrangements,” which they have rayed on the shoulders of that drudge-woman.
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Let us fully understand that a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half.
"- Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, Ch. 10 (via anarchocommunist)
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