Spontaneity, mediation, rupture
Endnotes on communisation, organisation, spontaneity and the possibilities of current struggles.
“We do not know whether the [contrasting] destinies of Luxemburg … and Lenin were to be tied to the fact that Lenin and his group armed the workers, while the Spartacists continued to view the organisation as coordination … and the refusal to work as the only adequate workers’ weapon.
What next? - Troploin
Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic look back over 12 years of their Troploin project and where to go from here amidst austerity and working class defeat.
troploin stands at a turning point. We owe it as much to us as to our friends and readers to assess what we have been trying to do for the past twelve years. While troploin remains a common project of Karl Nesic and Gilles Dauvé, they have preferred to assess the situation separately.
Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism - David Adam
In this article, David Adam takes aim at Gilles Dauvé's critique of the council communists, which has been influential in the communisation milieu.
Some left theorists have claimed that the council communist tradition actually advocated a self-managed capitalist economy, rather than a truly communist one.
Marx, Engels, Luxemburg and the return to primitive communism - Mark Kosman
Submitted by ptar on Dec 18 2012 13:24
Marx, Engels and Luxemburg were all keen to return to the egalitarian relations of primitive communism, at a higher level. But how does the egalitarianism of early human societies connect up with Marxism’s prime focus on the rise and decline of capitalism? As capitalism continues to disintegrate, this article looks at the egalitarian origins of money in ancient Greece for clues as to how we might transcend the whole money system.
Communisation theory and the question of fascism - Cherry Angioma
A critical look at some assumptions of communisation theorists - considering that their often determinist historical predictions are not the only possible outcomes. "Communisation resulting in a classless society is only one of the possibilities on the horizon".
It is now more than five years since the start of the financial crisis with no sign of respite from austerity and increasing insecurity. Neither the old left of unions and parties or the newer social movements of protest and direct action seem to be up to the task of offering a way forward.
Terrain for an encounter: social anarchism and communisation
Submitted by Collective Action on Nov 8 2012 13:39
The following was published as an introduction and a primer for an anarchist reading of the following text - 'What is Communisation? - Leon de Mattis - as a result it assumes a certain understanding of concepts within communisation theory (outlined in that text) as well as being a rather cursory presentation of the controversies therein. Nonetheless we reproduce it by itself as a useful starting point for further investigation and debate into the relationship between these revolutionary theories.
Communisation as a conception of the process of revolutionary transformation is intrinsically tied to the history of utopian thought. As a result it is possible to trace many communising sentiments as far back as the pre-modern, agrarian ideals of the Diggers, the writings of Thomas More, Babeuf, Robert Owen and many other early utopian socialists.
Lies - a journal of materialist feminism
...[The] more we read and wrote together, the more we desired a means to devise a theory and politics that is inchoate but at least our own. This journal is that: a way to communicate, to be overcome by the feminist commune, to survive with lesser pain or better pain, to become a more precise and effective force.
LIES COLLECTIVE 9
Editorial Note
NOT-SEX AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
C.E. - Undoing Sex: Against Sexual Optimism
CLÉMENCE X. CLEMENTINE - Against the Couple Form
M. SANDOVSKY - Letters to L: Visions and Paranoia
SOGUMI - salt wedge (excerpts)
WORKER’S INQUIRY
JOMO - Caring: a labor of stolen time: Pages from a CNA’s Notebook
History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings
Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover on The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings by Alain Badiou
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The feral underclass hits the streets: On the English riots and other ordeals
Greek left communists Blaumachen on the 2011 August riots in the UK.
Like a summer with a thousand Augusts?
'The summer riots of ‘81 were the foretaste of the future for us. One day sooner or later the roof is going to blow off the UK. Faced with an assertion like this most people in pubs, streets, supermarkets or at work tend to nod their heads. The old phlegmatic reassurances that ‘it can’t happen here’ has finally gone – let it be forever.’[1]
On the Blaumachen presentation for the ‘communismos’ conference: a note on communism as real movement (2011), - Coghnorti
An English translation of a 2011 critique by the Greek communist group Coghnorti of theories presented by the Greek communist group Blaumachen.
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