Is Transsexual Another Word For Lumpen? A brief response to Bromma
Strap in sisters, this is a rough one. Let me start by saying that I appreciate Bromma’s effort here. I’ve long found his work useful and I think he’s dancing…
Weapon of Theory
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…
Don Hamerquist: Distinguishing The Possible From The Probable: Contending strategic approaches within and against transnational capitalism
Brief Explanatory Note: This was written in the last days of 2019 and the first days of the current year. In early March, before doing an initial private circulation, I…
New Year’s Status 2019 (Torkil Lauesen)
We are entering a dramatic period in history. Capitalism is in decline. The collapse of the system will be characterized by intense and sometimes chaotic economic and political fluctuations. The…
New Classes for a New Class Politics (Gabriel Kuhn)
I spent the past weekend writing a German review of the new Kersplebedeb edition of David Gilbert’s Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically, originally published in 1984. While…
Oppressor and Oppressed Nations: Sketching a Taxonomy of Imperialism (by Gabriel Kuhn)
Introduction In recent years, the left has shown a renewed interest in anti-imperialism. This is an encouraging development, since global economic injustice remains one of the most glaring contradictions of…
Garbage Floats in with the Tide: For Autonomous Antifascism
In his “Notes on Trump,” Bromma posits that the election of Trump and the accompanying rise of the far right are not simple accidents of history, nor the result of…
Notes on Trump (Bromma Dec. 2016)
1. The normality of white supremacy Since Trump’s election, I keep hearing that we shouldn’t “normalize” him or his agenda. I believe that’s looking through the wrong end of the…
Surplus Absorption, Realization Crisis, and Imperialism (David Gilbert, November 2015)
David Gilbert, a political prisoner held in New York State since 1981, wrote the following text in 2015, examining the the ways in which capitalism is confronted by, and contends…
Fascism & Anti-Fascism (Don Hammerquist)
an excerpt from Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement This paper is directed towards a narrow audience of revolutionary activists who, hopefully, will not demand a finished product.…
Cops are Gangsters
Intro: There are millions of oppressed people inside the borders of the u.s., but I’m not one of them. I come from a privileged background. I’m not the main victim…
Frameworks
Frameworks are sets of definitions, ideas about how things relate to each other, construed relationships, or even (especially!) of other frameworks, with which people make sense of phenomena and of…
Settlers, Oppressed Nations, Indigeneity
A friend recently wrote me, asking me “after how many years/generations do new settlers become Indigenous to a land? So, for example, are the Boers descendants today in S. Africa,…
Neocolonialism and Noise
this image comes from an article in the mcgill daily dealing with some of the issues discussed here, but from the opposite direction, and drawing very different conclusions The world…