libertarian communism
Articles about libertarian or anti-state communism.
Platformism - an introduction
A brief history and explanation of "Platformism" - a strain of anarchist communism influenced by a 1926 document The Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists.
Platformism is a current within libertarian communism putting forward specific suggestions on the nature which anarchist organsation should take.
Abolish Restaurants - prole.info
Abolish Restaurants is an illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it.
ABOLISH RESTAURANTS
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
George Orwell's famous 1938 account of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, from his point of view as a volunteer in the POUM militia.
Though the POUM were socialists, he wrote "as far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists."
His vivid descriptions of classless anarchist Barcelona following the revolution and terrorised Stalinist Barcelona after the counter-revolution are a timeless reminder that a 'revolutionary state' is a contradiction in terms.
Work. Community. Politics. War. - prole.info
US libertarian communist website prole.info's illustrated call to arms to the workers of the world. In text and PDF format.
WORK . COMMUNITY . POLITICS . WAR
“Everyone is asked their opinion about every detail in order to prevent them from having one about the totality.”
--Raoul Vaneigem
Going in the Wrong Direction or Mephistopheles: Not Saint Francis of Assisi
Toni Negri's work is enormously attractive, not only for its own merits, but because it responds to a desperate need. We are all looking for a way forward. The old state-centred model of revolution has failed catastrophically, reformism becomes more and more corrupt and barren, yet revolutionary change is more urgent than ever.
Twelve Theses on Changing the World without taking Power
I
1. The starting point is negativity.
We start from the scream, not from the word. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO.
Bernard Reichenbach:The KAPD in Retrospect - An Interview with a Member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany
Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring 1994
We have omitted the footnotes from this text as they are mainly short biographies of people in the text. This interview first appeared in Solidarity Vol. 6 no.2 when Reichanbach was a militant in the anti-parliamentary Left in Germany. He was interviewed by Rudi Dutschke (RH)
The German Workers' Councils
Global War for the World Order, Part II
September 11 did not change the world and marked no change in era. It becomes more and more obvious that it was crystallization point and catalyst for developments which had started long before.
Global War for the World Order (Part I)
Behind the attacks of September 11 weren't the pauperized and exploited of this world, and the bombing of Afghanistan isn't aimed at the alleged masterminds of the attacks. Both incidents belong to the strategy of worldwide control of labor power and protection of the global valorization of capital.
Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu - Loren Goldner
Looking back at a landmark text that influenced Italian Autonomism, the French group Socialisme Ou Barbarie and various US radicals.
"We do not come before the world and proclaim: Here is the truth! Down on your knees! We merely tell the world why it struggles, and consciousness is something the world must acquire even if it does not want to".
Marx, Letter to Ruge, 1843
