The mag they wish didn't exist - Principia Dialectica
Nov 4 2007 19:04
Now available on the Principia Dialectica website - a reply to Professor Sprint's article on science in Issue No. 2, plus critical fragments on Zizek, Cuba, Timmy Clarke and more. For all those still stuck in the class war trenches, go awol for a while and enjoy a sneaky fag with the cutting edge mag behind the bikesheds. Only one request please...no dewy-eyed mumbling about the proletariat this or bourgeoisie that. Also, we hope you can carefully interrogate your use of that much over-used category 'surplus value.' This is 2007 after all! Soon to be uploaded on the website is an interview with Hungarian scholar G M Tamas (author of 'Telling the Truth about Class' in the 2006 Socialist Register) plus how Moishe Postone's book Time, Labor and Social Domination is finding an ever wider audience in the trad marxist camps...plus a rare and hard to find manuscript by a libertarian who stood up to the Bolshevik tyranny ninety years ago this month. Keep checking everyday for new updates!
Plus coming soon...Issue No 3 in all the best shops as usual.
Nov 4 2007 19:49
#2
personal question - apart from write the magasine, what other political work are you engaged in?
Nov 4 2007 20:09
#3
Collecting dirty laundry from nice men in an organisation called 'the CIA' whatever that is! They let us use their money to fund our magazine, lovely chaps.
Thats a joke by the way.
x
Nov 4 2007 20:34
#4
indeed, i fair chortled like a chortling chortler.
But seriously now?
Nov 4 2007 20:42
#5
if my experience is anything togo by, they keep getting told to fuck off.
Cometothink of it why is it the icc who get accused of being too hard on potential n00bs?
Nov 4 2007 21:02
#6
Dear Tacks - words to the wise - avoid work. It's a killer.
x
Nov 4 2007 21:03
#7
what sort of advice is that??
Nov 4 2007 21:55
#8
If you could stop humping the corpse of the SI long enough to add me on myspace I'd appreciate it, yeh?
Nov 4 2007 22:00
#9
guydebordisdead wrote:
humping the corpse of the SI
Quote:
add me on myspace I'd appreciate it
eta nah sorry who am i to criticise anarchists for having fun.
Nov 4 2007 22:02
#10
Nov 4 2007 22:06
#11
guydebordisdead wrote:
http://myspace.com/principiadialectica
wretch.
Nov 4 2007 22:09
#12
god i feel so awkward around you debord: incase i knock you off your pose... how do you live like that??
Nov 4 2007 22:12
#13
I still don't understand you.
Nov 4 2007 22:13
#14
sorry if that's all it doesn't matter a dime.
Nov 4 2007 23:28
#15
Are these guys some third position morons? - they are "friends" with Troy Southgate?
Nov 4 2007 23:29
#16
No, they're pro-situs.
Nov 4 2007 23:34
#17
spastic pro situs who think Adorno et al are cutting edge.
Good job they're still fighting the orthodox marxists......
Still like a lot of superficial things it's pretty to look at.
Nov 5 2007 00:29
#18
adorno ftw! sorry that should be *slavic accent* "adunno ftw"
not very good at accents.
Nov 5 2007 02:11
#19
troy southgate is a fascist arsehole. immediately remove him from your friends.
Nov 5 2007 14:31
#20
888 wrote:
troy southgate is a fascist arsehole. immediately remove him from your friends.
FFS.
Idiots.
Nov 5 2007 14:33
#21
Sean68 wrote:
Dear Tacks - words to the wise - avoid work. It's a killer.
x
I'm not interested in what you do for a living, what are you're active politics outside of your mag?
Nov 5 2007 15:54
#22
I heard they once shot a Guy.
Nov 5 2007 19:06
#23
Don't leave it too late to escape from the class war trenches! It's always hard for people to cast off out of date critiques...These days, everyone loves the Situationists. It wasn't always so...Lib Com will have to eventually catch up. Your old ideology is like rusty armour...
A new student ideology is spreading around the world: a dehydrated version of the young Marx called “situationism.”
—Daily Telegraph (22 April 1967)
The situationists . . . are more anarchist than the anarchists, whom they find too bureaucratic.
—Carrefour (8 May 1968)
Too extreme for those of the Old Left intelligent enough to understand it and too incomprehensible for those of the New Left extreme enough to live it.
— Grove Press opinion on Viénet’s Enragés and Situationists...
When one reads or rereads the Internationale Situationniste issues it is quite striking to what degree and how often these fanatics have made judgments or put forward viewpoints that were later concretely verified.
—Le Nouvel Observateur (8 February 1971)
Nov 5 2007 19:11
#24
So the 68 in your username is your age, yeh? Quite funny that a magazine that runs bushisms would slag libcom too, one more push if you want to be real revolutionaries!
Nov 5 2007 21:41
#25
i'm glad to see Sean68 has been getting the most out of our library, such as this. 6/10 so far. may i suggest some marxian reversals?
Nov 5 2007 22:19
#26
Aw sorry Tacks, but your question raises the key problem effecting all militants: the question of work. Paul LaFargue in his little pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy puts it well:
'in capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity.'
The minute you start talking about the utopian project as one of 'work' - , well, you are already a dead duck.
Anyway, back to editing issue no 3.
x
Nov 5 2007 22:48
#27
Don't put words in his mouth now Sean. Tacks wasnt talking about work at all but rather its negation. I'm with him on this because he's never held a meeting in an art gallery.
Nov 5 2007 23:20
#28
it's like uber pc gone all psychidelic man!
Nov 5 2007 23:26
#29
Are there any distributors in the US?
Nov 5 2007 23:44
#30
i don't like it cos they don't care about what they're saying whether it's right or wrong. it's written all over it it in crayon.
that's not the right attutude to learning damnit!
they seem friendly, but secretive and vindictive etc. too which is annoying.
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oh nearly forgot...here's the address...www.principiadialectica.co.uk