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Demolition Derby: reflections on 'primitivism' - The Red Menace
The Red Menace review the Canadian primitivist magazine, Demolition Derby.
Demolition Derby is a new revolutionary newspaper from Canada. Politically it situates itself in what could loosely be described as the "anti-authoritarian primitivist" tendency, with an emphasis on opposition to technology and environmental themes.
Review: Non-market socialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - The Red Menace
The Red Menace reviews Maximilien Rubel and John Crump's book, Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Communism has got nothing to do with state control of the economy (as leninists suggest) nor for that matter with workers owning their own factories and exchanging products with other workers (as advocated by some anarchists). Communism, as the authors of this book make clear, is the abolition of all forms of the state, exchange (buying and selling) and property- including "collective property".
Review: Anti-Parliamentary Communism in Britain, 1917-1945 - The Red Menace
Review of Mark Shipway's book, Anti-Parliamentary Communism: the Movement for Workers' Councils in Britian, 1917-1945, from The Red Menace.
The existence and activity of revolutionaries in Britain before the end of World War II has been either ignored or distorted In the various histories of the period written by apologists for the "Communist" Party and the Labour Party. Several books have recently become available which give us a clearer picture of our predecessors in this country.








