[Originally posted to LeftTwoThree.org] A review of J Sakai, The Shape of Things to Come (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). Last month, we looked at the Kersplebedeb release A Brilliant Red Thread, an anthology of writings by Don Hamerquist. This month, we’re looking at a somewhat similar release by Kersplebedeb, The Shape
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Kersplebedeb: Texts for leninists with an anti-authoritarian critique of leninism, and for anarchists with a pro-rev critique of anarchism
The anarchists’ slogan, “Destroy what destroys you,” is aimed at mobilizing the base, young people in prisons and reformatories, in high schools and training centres. It reaches out to all of those in the shittiest situations. It is meant to be spontaneously understood, and is a call for direct resistance.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW: Jane Austen Goes to School with the Lumpen/Proletariat – J. Sakai
A new pamphlet now available as a LeftWingBooks.net! There are many roads to understanding the root process of capitalist criminalization, but one of the most direct is surprisingly the classic women’s novelist, Jane Austen. This article, first published as a chapter in the book The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory:
Continue readingKersplebedeb: ‘The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat’ by J. Sakai reviewed by Joshua Moufawad-Paul
available from leftwingbooks.net (mirrored from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books) Sakai has always been provocative. His work, when it is not relegated to obscurity, is treated as either sacrosanct or heretical, and so it is very difficult to review his most recent book without capitulating to this binary. Moreover, his
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat
by J. Sakai paperback 308 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-90-2 J. Sakai’s ground-breaking, The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat, is our first major exploration of this most controversial and least understood “non-class” in revolutionary politics. It is an attempt to unknot the puzzle. It encompasses the
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Montreal, May 27: J. Sakai on The Politics of Security
The Politics of Security a presentation by J. Sakai Monday, May 27th, 6:30 pm @ QPIRG Concordia 1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204 (metro Guy-Concordia) The recent f.b.i. and grand jury repression against anarchists in the Northwest USA, as well as the continued police repression of the Anti-Globalization resistance, has
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