Against the 'Iraqi' Resistance
To those Western pro-revolutionaries who have lately fallen under into the politics of anti-imperialism the message is this: always reject imposed conditions and proposed solutions from within the established array; take courage from your principles under all circumstances; there must be no compromises and no negotiations with religions, political groups, state agencies or structural panaceas; the struggle is always for humanity as its own end and against the commodity.
A Plague on Both Your Houses: Against the ‘Iraqi Resistance’
by Frere Dupont (2005)
(Article appeared in the first issue of Letters.)
Death to rank and filism!
The text below appeared in a short-lived project and one-off journal, entitled ‘Anti-Exchange and Mart’, produced in London in 1990. The article has been ‘lost’ until just recently. The article was written by a member of the Communication Worker’s Group (CWG), a rank and file postal workers organisation. It is a detailed examination of the challenges that faced, or perhaps, issues that beset, the group, written very shortly after the dissolution of the group. The text here is exactly as it appeared in 1990.
It is written from the perspective of those – termed the ‘anti-union tendency’ in the article - in the group who had a particularly fundamental critique of the role of workplace unions. The experience of the CWG informed the politics of at least two of its members in a very significant way.
Nihilist communism - Monsieur Dupont
A critique of optimism - the religious dogma that states there will be an ultimate triumph of good over evil - in the far left
'Nihilist communism' argues against the conception of 'consciousness raising' and recruiting as practised by the far left, whereby it is implicitly assumed that the social revolution may be brought about by enough persons spreading communist ideas effectively enough. Monsieur Dupont also argues regularly against class consciousness and even consciousness as a factor in revolution.
The last train has left the station...
Herein is suggested that: there is no hope of change; no hope of revolution; no hope whatsoever… We do not agree with this article but reproduce it for reference.
The last train has left the station…
Herein is suggested that: there is no hope of change; no hope of revolution; no hope whatsoever…
What kind of fools are we to believe that anything can be salvaged of our human/animal status? What kind of fools are we to believe, even, that we still actually live on planet earth?
A seasonal message from the other Dupont - Le Garcon Dupont
This article is a short personal account by one of the members of Monsieur Dupont.
A Seasonal Message from The Other Dupont
Our call to do nothing “was, and remains, a provocation”.
From the Glossary section of the book, Nihilist Communism:
Reply to the Real Movement - Monsieur Dupont
The following article by Monsieur Dupont is a reply to The Real Movement in Red & Black Notes #14 - http://libcom.org/library/real-movement-red-black-notes.
It is difficult to reply to your article because it doesn't really get anywhere.
Your face is so mysteriously kind
What is objective? The weather.
What is consciousness? Rain on your face.
What is subjective? "My hairstyle is a mess and my make-up is ruined."
Objective is what happens.
Consciousness is presence.
Subjective is complaint.
Objectivity is appropriation.
Consciousness is absorbency.
Subjectivity is defeat.
Object is ground.
Consciousness is mask.
Subject is projectile.
Some thoughts relating to the recent events in Prague
1.The likely beneficiaries of the actions in Prague are the Ecology Movement, in its broadest sense, which means the careers of individuals and groups/parties who represent all sorts of ecological politics. (I have used the term "Ecology Movement" in order to highlight where this movement originates, which is also a pointer to where it will end up).
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