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March 16, 2022 Other Authors

Kersplebedeb: People’s Army or Women’s Army? Men’s Communism and its Dissidents

What Use Is An Empty Weapon? An Amazon theorist once said that “women need a world view.” As I exit the dogmatic so-called “Maoist” movement in the United States and grapple with a clear eyed feeling of disillusionment, I’ve never been more convinced of the truth of those words. The

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Kersplebedeb: 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:

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates March 8, 2022

Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 22, 2022

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 8, 2022

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Kersplebedeb: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference

Olúfémi O. Táíwò I flinched inwardly. It was an innocent and properly motivated offer: Helen, a freelance journalist, was offering to give up something for me, stemming from her concern to live out an ethos of racial justice. But I worried that it was also a trap. from Pocket https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/essay-taiwo

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 25, 2022

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Kersplebedeb: New Titles Now Available at LeftWingBooks.net!

Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China Share the Wealth: How to End Rentier Capitalism Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week We’re Here Because You Were

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 11, 2022

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Kersplebedeb: Breaking up Families: How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People [Fifth Estate]

[This review was originally published by Fifth Estate in Fall 2021. Fighting for a Hand to Hold is available on LeftWingBooks.net] Breaking up Families How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People by Marieke Bivar Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 a review of Fighting for A Hand to Hold:

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Kersplebedeb: The Reality of Denial and the Denial of Reality [Cured Quail Journal]

[This article was originally posted on Cured Quail on December 9, 2021.] Antithesi / cognord Download PDF This text was written and published in Greek in September 2021. It was meant as a polemic intervention in a debate around the questions of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, the measures and tools against

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Kersplebedeb: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong [ClimateAndCapitalism.com]

[This post originally appeared on ClimateAndCapitalism.com on December 17, 2021. The Dawn of Everything is available for purchase at LeftWingBooks.net] Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book. Introduction It’s not often that a book by radical authors gets reviewed — let

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Kersplebedeb: Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison [Chuang]

[This is translation was published to Chuangcn.org on January 10, 2022.] Just as 2022 began, the world received news that delivery worker and organizer Chen Guojiang, known as Mengzhu (??), had been freed after nearly a year in detention. But Mengzhu’s release by no means signified the loosening of control

January 10, 2022 C

Kersplebedeb: A Stalinist school of development? [Workers Weekly]

[This article is mirrored from Weekly Worker, where it was posted on December 2, 2021.] Paul Flewers looks back at the flawed but insightful theory of state collectivism presented by John Fantham and Moshé Machover in the late 1970s The discussion around the nature of the Soviet Union was and

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Kersplebedeb: Human History Gets a Rewrite: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [The Atlantic]

[This review originally appeared in the November 2021 issue of the The Atlantic. The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net] Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working

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Kersplebedeb: The Radical Promise of Human History: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [Boston Review]

[This review originally appeared in the Boston Review, November 3, 2021.] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow [Available now at LeftWingBooks.net] The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first evolved somewhere on

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Kersplebedeb: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net NATIONAL BESTSELLER,NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture

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Kersplebedeb: Butch Lee / 1940-2021

Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a long determined battle with terminal illness. She leaves behind comrades and friends and family who cared deeply for her. She

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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates December 28, 2021

Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/updates-28-dec-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know

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Kersplebedeb: Interviews with On Necrocapitalism contributors

As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future that is foreclosed. The M.I. Asma writing group came together to stake out a different terrain, thinking