It's Rather Important

Just wants people to not be greedy or ignorant. Is that too much to ask?

When someone asks, ‘what’s the use of philosophy?’ the reply must be aggressive since the question tries to be ironic and caustic. Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not philosophy.

—Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (via no-vvolf)

(Source: thepostmoderntestament, via foucaultthehaters)

marxvx:

itsratherimportant:

marxvx:

I HAVE SO MUCH SUMMER READING AHEAD OF MY I’M SO GOD DAMNED EXCITED

ELEVEN NEW BOOKS AND I’M GOING TO REREAD SOCIAL ECOLOGY & COMMUNALISM AND I’M ALREADY READING FROM URBANIZATION TO CITIES AND FIRE & FLAMES

IT’S KIND OF OVERWHELMING BUT I’M GOING TO BE SO SMART BY THE END OF THE SUMMER

Where did you find a copy of Social Ecology & Communalism?  I haven’t seen it for sale anywhere online at a decent price.

A friend of mine gave it to me actually, you can buy it from AK Press for $12.95. But shit yeah Amazon totally went Postwar Germany on it.

Nah, AK Press doesn’t actually have it in print.  Tried ordering it from them a while ago, got put on some kind of backorder and nothing happened since then.

marxvx:

I HAVE SO MUCH SUMMER READING AHEAD OF MY I’M SO GOD DAMNED EXCITED

ELEVEN NEW BOOKS AND I’M GOING TO REREAD SOCIAL ECOLOGY & COMMUNALISM AND I’M ALREADY READING FROM URBANIZATION TO CITIES AND FIRE & FLAMES

IT’S KIND OF OVERWHELMING BUT I’M GOING TO BE SO SMART BY THE END OF THE SUMMER

Where did you find a copy of Social Ecology & Communalism?  I haven’t seen it for sale anywhere online at a decent price.

marxvx:

Every house should have a Misgender Jar. Kinda like how weird families have a swear jar. And every time you misgender someone you have to put a dollar in the Misgender Jar

class-struggle-anarchism:

joerobsbanks:

I really hate cyclists.

If you have to ride your bike in the city to get to work, I’m totally cool with that. But if you ride purely for sport on a country road with a lot of hills where the speed limit is 65+ and there’s no shoulder or bike lane, you’re a selfish piece of shit and I hope you get run over.

piss off

Yeah god forbid someone should use a road for something as frivolous as enjoying their lives when it might interfere with the Very Important Business of getting to your destination on time…

Fucking self important motorist pricks, thanks for turning the air toxic so we can’t breath it though, that’s nice - and thanks for making cities dirty, smelly, clogged up, noisy and dangerous, unsafe for children - you guys are the number one cause of accidental death but no we’re selfish for slowing you down a little.

You hope we get run over? Well you’ll get your wish, because today, like every other day, hundreds of cyclists will be killed or injured by ignorant, impatient arsehole motorists who care more about the hurry they’re in than the safety of another human being. Fuck off.

One or more of the following elements exist in almost every negative internet review of Marx’s Capital:

-A condemnation of Marxism on the whole with no reference the the content of Capital.

-A mention of how the Soviet Union or other countries show that “Marx’s solution” is worse than capitalism

-“You should read Hayek/Mises/Rothbard/some libertarian economist who actually knows what they’re talking about.”

-An attempt to discredit all of Marx’s thought with one out of context quote or fact.

marxvx:

I think the reason why I admire the autonomist movement as a (relatively) successful implementation of spontaneous action is because of the way the action was coordinated. Both the German and Italian autonomist movement had large sections who were opposed to all organization (in Italy it was the Autonomia Creativa and in Germany they were known as “Spontis”, short for spontaneous obviously), but a large section of the Italian autonomia was devoted to “transforming spontaneous revolts to a continuous attack on the capitalist system” - this was the Autonomia Operaia Organizzata. The AOO regarded Autonomia Creativa’s tactics as “attempts to escape the system rather than destroy it” and I totally agree with that.

But I think the reason why organization wasn’t as pivotal to autonomism was because autonomists sought to insight insurrection (or “provoke social tension”) through ways other than streetfighting, which is something I don’t see actively attempted by most anti-organizational anarchists. “Their political practice was based on the politicization of everyday life. Outside of the universities, the antiauthoritarians were active in self-managed kindergartens, autonomous youth centers, self-help groups, neighborhood initiatives, and solidarity groups for marginalized communities.”

Although their approach to organizing the working class seemed to be much more receptive than that of the Marxist-Leninist parties, I don’t think it was organized and sustained enough - though they did form “Workplace Project Groups”.

Their actions with housing were fucking glorious though. One autonomist zine wrote: “To squat means to destroy the capitalist plot for our neighborhoods. It means to refuse rent and the capitalist shoe box structure. It means to build communes and community centers. It means to recognize the social potential of each neighborhood. It means to overcome helplessness. In squatting and in rent strikes we can find the pivotal point of anticapitalist struggles outside of the factory.”

I don’t know, I guess that’s my opinion of autonomism so far. Sympathetic if not positive. It’s definitely changing my opinion on organization in revolutionary struggle.