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November 7, 2009 - 10:12am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
History

“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925 Loren Goldner

November 6, 2009 - 9:52am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

ACTA Treaty is DMCA on Steroids Kevin Carson

[Reposted from Center for a Stateless Society]

In last year’s election campaign Obama came across as vaguely more friendly to open-culture than the alternatives, among other things supporting “fair use” reform of the DMCA and opposing requirements for ISP data retention (both issues on which Hillary waffled). As somebody put it, “Obama’s a Mac and Hillary’s a PC.” Even the U.S. Pirate Party endorsed Obama as the least evil candidate.

November 5, 2009 - 11:55am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

Grasping the Political in the Event Maurizio Lazzarato

[This interview with Maurizio Lazzarato (ML) was conducted on 27 November 2008 by Brian Massumi (BM) and Erin Manning (EM). It is reposted from "Micropolitics: Exploring Ethico-Aesthetics," Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation, No. 3. October 2009.

Maurizio Lazzarato: ML Brian Massumi: BM Erin Manning: EM

November 4, 2009 - 5:21pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

The Heart of India Is Under Attack Arundhati Roy

A shortened version of this article appeared in The Guardian (UK), Friday, October 30, 2009. This is the full version. Ed.]

To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy — and it has chosen the Maoists

November 4, 2009 - 2:48pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

"Marx, Cognitive Capitalism and the Transition to the Commons" Michel Bauwens

[Snatched from a longer list-exchange at the Institute for Distributed Creativity, ed.]

I think we do have to accept that we are no longer in a mercantile, nor industrial capitalist logic, but in a third phase of cognitive capitalism. My thesis is that the marxist thesis, of a organized working class taking power and then changing society, has been discredited. Not only because it didn't happen in the last 200 years, but because it is based on a misreading of history.

November 3, 2009 - 4:39pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

"Driven From Below": A Look at Tenant Organizing and the New Gentrification Andrea Gibbons

From Institute for Anarchist Studies

November 2, 2009 - 5:01pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

On the Digital Labor Question Andrew Ross

(Transcribed October 16th, 2009 from a lecture presented at September 29, 2009, at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School)

October 27, 2009 - 9:26am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

A Revolutionary Proposal: Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds Alexander Trocchi

[Published as "Technique du coupe du monde," Internationale Situationniste #8 (January 1963; reposted from Not Bored).]

"And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signalling through the flames." -- Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double, 1958

October 23, 2009 - 3:46am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

Party Politics Versus Living Politics

University of KwaZulu-Natal Forum Lecture Thursday 22 October 2009

Party Politic Vs Living Politic in Kennedy Road

The Kennedy Road settlement, like all other Abahlali baseMjondolo settlements, has been embarking on a living politic.

This politic is a living politic because it talks about the realities of our democracy – a democracy that serves the interests of a minority while the majority our people continue to live and to die in inhuman conditions.

October 22, 2009 - 10:24am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

Protest as Embodied State Practices: An Examination of Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Protest Tactics Sabrina Alimahomed and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson[1]

From Institute for Anarchist Studies

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